Webliography

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Thanksgiving

The First Thanksgiving
http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/
Audience: Elementary school classrooms

Scholastic put some hard work into making “The First Thanksgiving, 1620 n 1621, a picture timeline.” The site’s interactive, has teacher resources, and suggests classroom activities.

Thanksgiving Printables
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/print.html
Audience: Primary and Elementary to Middle School classrooms

By the time Thanksgiving arrives, lots of us are looking for fun and easy thematic printables. KidsDomain provides just that. Explore their collection of Thanksgiving mazes, word puzzles and coloring pages. Then scroll down to find links to activity pages from other sites.

Thanksgiving Links
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/thanksgiving.htm
Audience: All ages

Talk about something for everyone! These folks assembled links to more than 50 Thanksgiving websites. Scroll down this list and peek at those that interest you. You’re bound to find something that’s just what you need.

Thanksgiving Quiz
http://wilstar.com/holidays/thanksgv.htm
Audience: Upper Elementary Classrooms

Build Thanksgiving into your language arts curriculum using this story and set of comprehension questions. The directions suggest answering the questions to test for knowledge before reading the story. I didn't know the answers to some of the questions and wouldn't expect students to know the answers either. So I suggest reading the story first, then answering the questions. Look around this site and you'll also find a Thanksgiving word search puzzle, the lyrics to "Over the River and Through the Woods," the 1676 Thanksgiving proclamation and proclamations by George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

Thanksgiving Crafts
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/thanksgiving/
Audience: Preschool to Lower Elementary Classrooms

For Thanksgiving, Enchanted Learning offers a variety of simple traditional crafts; a hand and foot turkey, a thankful turkey, a pinecone turkey, a thankful leaf wreath, a paper scarecrow and others. Scroll down the page to find templates for extension activities. At the bottom is a Mayflower Map/Quiz printout and a Quiz on Thanksgiving Words

More Thanksgiving Crafts
http://www.bhg.com/home/Thanksgiving-Crafts.html
Audience: Preschool to Lower Elementary Classrooms

Looking for more crafts? Look at these Thanksgiving crafts from Better Homes and Gardens, although these might be more appropriate as activities for doing at home. Learn how to make a harvest cross-stitch, lacy leaves, fall topiary and all-aglow apples. Scroll down the page to find an array of other crafts, all of which result in lovely decorations. The bottom of the page links to recipes and more activities. Don’t skip looking at the Thanksgiving for Kids and Thanksgiving Family Fun buttons at the very bottom.

A Thanksgiving Day at Alphabet Soup
http://www.alphabet-soup.net/hol/thanksgiving.html

The AlphabetSoup.com Thanksgiving page offers a lot of ways to celebrate this holiday in your classroom. Look here for an online coloring book, poems, recipes, fun and games, art activities, turkey talk, links, books and more.

The Origins of Thanksgiving
http://www.care2.com/gates/holidays/thanksgiving/thanksgiving.html

The origins of Thanksgiving are ancient harvest festivals celebrated in ancient times. Do you know what George Washington and Abraham Lincoln had to do with Thanksgiving as we know it? Learn more at this link.

HOLIDAY GAMES
http://holidays.kaboose.com/thanks-games.html
AUDIENCE: Elementary school classrooms
Coloring, puzzles, games, jokes and riddles.

WORD GAMES
http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/thanksgiving/games.htm
AUDIENCE: Elementary school classrooms
Word jumbles, Sudoku, tic-tac-toes, puzzles and more.

THANKSGIVING MATH
http://www.kidzone.ws/math/thanksgiving/
AUDIENCE: Elementary school classrooms
Thanksgiving themed math pages.

Around the World Harvest
harvestfestivals.net/harvestfestivals.htm
A list of nearly 50 links to harvest festivals around the world.

Classroom Activities
teach-nology.com/worksheets/misc/thanks/
A rich variety of lessons and worksheets for Thanksgiving activities in the classroom.

Jokes and Riddles
holidays.kaboose.com/thanks-games-jokes.html
Thanksgiving jokes and riddles from Kaboose. After having a laugh, check out great fun and turkey-themed crafts at their main Thanksgiving crafts page.

Activity Pages
apples4theteacher.com/holidays/thanksgiving/
Apples 4 the Teacher offers a wide range of activities and games, articles, coloring pages, games and more.

Ideas for Crafts
amazingmoms.com/htm/thanksgiving.htm
Amazing Moms, "keeping life fun and festive," has ideas for crafts and games, and supplies and traveling tips.

Thanksgiving Party
fundraiseralley.com/teachers/thanksgivingtips.html
Thanksgiving is observed annually as a day to commemorate the Pilgrim's harvest of 1621, to give thanks for blessings great and small, and to feast! This is a wonderful party to invite students' parents or grandparents to join your class, and to share with them. Give the children the opportunity to help in preparing the food for the "feast".