Hi Everyone!
Sorry for this post so close to
Thanksgiving but as you know, school life can be crazy. We are working this week on A Turkey for
Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting for Thanksgiving week. This is one of my favorite reads this time of
year because many students have one perspective throughout the whole book and
realize they were wrong at the end.
If you have not read the book, I’ll
give a quick synopsis. Mr. and Mrs.
Moose are hosting Thanksgiving dinner. Mrs. Moose really wants a turkey for
Thanksgiving, so Mr. Moose promises to get her one. Mr. Moose goes looking for a turkey and runs
into other Thanksgiving dinner attendees on the way that join the search (the
Goats, the Rabbits, etc.). They finally find a turkey hiding by the
riverbank. They capture him and bring
him back to Mr. Moose’s house. They then
all sit down to dinner only for Turkey to realize they got him a chair and he
is NOT dinner but rather a guest.
One writing activity that I did with
my students was to have them each disguise a turkey to hide from
Thanksgiving. Then write a story about
how the turkey avoided being eaten. My
students came up with some great ideas such as a piano, peacock, rapper, ninja
turtle, and more. To give something a
little extra, I had a bag of googly eyes that if students wanted, they could glue
them on the turkey for eyes.
The students had a lot of fun and
even asked if they could do this next week J. I always find that good news!
Click here if interested in the
literature unit - Turkey for Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Erin
