Some of my colleagues might say I have over done the turkey
theme for the month and it's not even Thanksgiving yet…but…I don’t care! It could be due to the many
varieties of Thanksgiving hats that my students have created over the past week,
or the fact that my kids sit at the lunch table practicing their lines for our
Thanksgiving play we are putting on… but what I really think drives my
colleagues a little crazy are the endless songs my students sing up and down
the hallways… including our turkey rap song… “Gobble Gobble, Gobble Gobble Gobble
What!” I have my kiddies doing so
many different Thanksgiving related activities I think they all might all turn
into turkeys!
My students are putting on a Thanksgiving play for our
school the day before Thanksgiving, so I think making the connection across the
curriculum is super engaging for them.
Today we were learning about sums of ten and practicing turn around
facts, so naturally I added in some turkey time to these activities!
I started by giving each student a sentence strip with a
number sentence on it. They had to
color in the correct number of feathers to represent their number sentence, and
then use them to create their turkey feather hat.
After the hats were created I separated my students around
the room and gave them 1 minute to find their “turn around fact” partner. Once all partners were
paired together, I rolled out the life-sized number line and as a class we
practice hopping on the number line to demonstrate their number sentences. It was inevitable that as the students
hopped up and down the number line, they were all gobbling like turkeys.
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