Pumpkins to Pilgrims

Thanksgiving Literacy Unit

by Christy Robbins

Name:

Turkey Talk Sight Word Search

Search for the sight words. Color the feather to keep track of the words you have found.

l y q a t h i s h

i k x d mo l u mr l w y h z o i j
like here from more

e g t h e y n k l

b v o b e k x b i

z u p h o a a l t

wa c f r o r s e o w i j s n m t i k j h t t c t l e
they every have who

m m v w h e r e d

o e e q v o i u f

r g r u h i t g w

e h y h a v e y t

am this little how

Harvest Time Helper

Help pick the corn before the winter comes. Roll the dice, read the letters on the line you rolled. Roll again!

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Native Americans showed the pilgrims how to grow plants like corn, beans, and onions when they moved to America. They shared a big meal together in November of 1621 to celebrate their first harvest.

Name:

The Mayflower set sail on September 6th. Plymouth Rock.

Sorting Sounds

It took 66 days for the pilgrims to land at

They had planned to land in Virginia, but ended up in Cape Cod,

Massachusetts, more than 600 miles off course. Look at the items you might need when you set sail. Sort the words below under the correct category. Can you think of more words?

ship

map

hat

Sorting Sounds
Cut and glue under the correct word family box.

cat lip tip fat zap nap

__________ __________ __________

sat mat dip cap pat flip

__________ __________ __________

tap sap bat hip lap yap

__________ __________ __________

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The pilgrims landed in American in the fall. What other words can you think of that are in the all family? Write them below.

Discovering New Words

The Mayflower is the ship that brought 102 pilgrims from England to the New World in 1620.
Use the letters from the word Mayflower Journey to create words. ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________ ________________

m a y f l owe r j o u rney

Gobble!
Students draw the sight word cards. They get to keep any word they get correct. If they draw the GOBBLE card, they must put all their cards back and start again. The student with the most words at the end of the game wins!

Gobble!

we

Pilgrims and Poetry

Teacher Instructions: Select books and poems about Thanksgiving for the students to read. Have the students create a pilgrims hat out of construction paper. Students wear their hats while they read the teacher selected stories.

Pilgrim Hat Templates:

Harvest Time
Help the pioneers harvest their crops of nonsense words before the first snowfall. Plant your crops. Plant them in the same order: pumpkin, corn, and onion. How fast can you harvest your group? Pick up each plant and say the letter sound.

Farmers Fields Instructions: Plant each field with a pumpkin, corn, and onion plant. Once all your fields are planted, pick up each plant and say the letter sound.

Cut Out Crops:

b g l r a

c h m s e

d j n t i

f k p v o

u o p v z

a u r w b

e a s x c

i e t y d

writing

If I were a turkey

________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________

How to Cook a Turkey

Ingredients you need:

_____________ _____________ _____________ _____________ _____________

_____________ _____________ _____________ _____________ _____________

Oven Temperature ______ degrees. Cooking Time:_________ Enjoy your turkey!

Writing

Planning Thanksgiving Dinner

Use the plate to draw and label what you are going to eat for Thanksgiving dinner. Write describe sentences for each food on
your plate.

Word Bank: Thanksgiving Foods:

turkey gravy ham rolls dressing green beans cranberry sauce corn mashed potatoes sweet potatoes pie

Describing Words: warm juicy sweet salty tart creamy crunchy fluffy golden tangy

Frys pie Eating Contest

Cut the pies apart.

Instructions:

See how many pie slices you can eat (cards you can read) in one minute. Replace and repeat.

The people

Write it down

By the water

Who will make it?

You and I

What will they do?

He called me.

We had their dog.

What did they say?

When would you go?

No way

A number of people

One or two

How long are they?

More than the other

Come and get it.

How many words?

Part of the time

This is a good day.

Can you see?

Sit down.

Now and then

But not me

Go find her

Not now

Look for some people

I like him.

So there you are.

Out of the water

A long time

We were here

Have you seen it?

Could you go?

One more time

We like to write.

All day long

Into the water

Its about time

The other people