Creative Home School Ideas for your Thanksgiving Words
Discover several ways to use your list of Thanksgiving words to teach, retell, and review the events that led up to one of the most celebrated holiday traditions in the US.
Using a list is a great way to get creative writing and art activities going with your child/ren. Below are some suggested activities to complete with your child using a Word Box of vocabulary surrounding the Pilgrims, Indians, and Puritans, prior to our present-day celebration known as Thanksgiving Day.
Insert some or all of the Thanksgiving words in a Word Box and get started creating your own activities. If you don't already have a word-list to make holiday worksheet activities, feel free to use some or all of the selections below:
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01) Pilgrims 02) Plymouth 03) England 04) Mayflower 05) Massachusetts 06) Colonies 07) Miles Standish 08) Indians 09) John Smith 10) Chief 11) Powhatan 12) Pocahontas 13) John Rolfe 14) Jamestown 15) Corn 16) Governor 17) Sickness 18) Hunger 19) Settlement 20) Tobacco |
21) Religion 22) Worship 23) Mayflower Compact 24) Liberty 25) Puritans 26) John Winthrop 27) New England 28) Settlers 29) William Bradford 30) Samoset 31) Squanto 32) Massasoit 33) Peace 34) Tribes 35) vegetables |
Cursive Penmanship
Choose selections from the word list to use for cursive handwriting practice. You could also include alphabetizing practice or dictionary skills and have them define each word.
Copy Work
Select several of the list words to create sentences to be used for copy work by your child/ren. Have them display their writing around the room during your Thanksgiving Day celebration. Or, they could read their work for guests.
Answer Questions
Create ten questions and choose items from your list words as the answer. Make these as challenging as possible for your children.
Set a timer and make it a race to see who finishes first. Award a small prize for the first person who correctly completes their list of questions.
Recall People or Places
Develop "Who Am I" questions that can be completed by selecting answers from the Word Box. Do the same with the names of places connected with the Pilgrims and Puritan settlers.
Cloze Activities
Create a paragraph with certain words missing from the passage. Have your child select the best words to complete the paragraph based on the time period of the Indians and colonists.
These are just a few of the possible printable activities you could assign or create for your child/ren during the Thanksgiving season. Many of these would also be suitable for other holidays as well, so keep this list of lesson plan ideas for future occasions as well.
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