Less than $5 5th Grade Thanksgiving Activities (by date, oldest first)

Thanksgiving is here! Students will find and circle Thanksgiving vocabulary with this holiday-themed crossword puzzle.

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Concepts Explored: Thanksgiving | Happy Thanksgiving | traditions | holiday | November | fall | autumn | turkey | feast | pilgrims | Wampanoag | Native American | Mayflower | Plymouth

Thanksgiving time is a fun family time. Print out and enjoy this Thanksgiving and pumpkin-themed maze! A bit of seasonal fun that kids will love.

Thanksgiving is a time for family, feasts and fun. It's the perfect time to learn about the Pilgrims coming to America and the Native Americans already living here. This educational set includes facts about the history and holiday of Thanksgiving "Then and Now.":

• Happy Thanksgiving! Two-Page Activity Set – Learn about how we get ready for Thanksgiving, the things we do on this holiday, and the foods that the Pilgrims are thought to have eaten during their first Thanksgiving feast.

• Family Fun and Feasts Crossword Puzzle – Learn about what we'll be eating at the family feast and what family fun we will have on this autumn holiday.

• Thanksgiving Then & Now Word Search Puzzle – Find and circle dozens of vocabulary words.

• Lined and Unlined Turkey-themed Stationery/Writing Paper – Teach how to write correspondence with the lined version, and use the unlined version as general writing paper.

Keywords: Thanksgiving | family | feast | Pilgrim | Mayflower | Native American | Indian | Plymouth | Massachusetts | traditions | turkey | Wampanoag | cranberry | harvest | parade | football

Thanksgiving is here. We're thankful for, and show gratitude for, many people, places and things in our lives. Students will find and circle the people and things that they are thankful for in their lives with this Thanksgiving-themed Word Search Puzzle! A great way to start a discussion with your students.

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Are you looking for an engaging Turkey in Disguise Take Home or Class Project for your AVID students this Thanksgiving season? This how-to disguise a Turkey hands-on, interactive career project is the perfect engaging twist on your career research projects! You can print or use the digital template and allow students to copy and paste images to disguise their turkey in Google Slides.

Thanksgiving will be here soon and our turkeys are getting nervous! Your students will be able to help keep them safe and away from hungry fans. Your students will love creating and writing about their turkey and its career that it hides at to stay in disguise.

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Directions:

• Students will cut out the turkey template.
• Students can use the digital template or print, color and cut out designs, or use construction paper and crafts to disguise their turkey in a career they are interested in researching.
• Students will answer the 14 career research questions about the career of their choice in their own notes.
• Students will write a story naming their turkey and describing a day in the life of his/her career as he/she hides from hungry fans. Their paper should also include 5 pieces of information from their career research.

What is included in this product?

• Turkey Template
• Project Requirements
• Career Research Websites List
• 14 Career Research Questions
• "Don’t eat me, I am NOT a turkey" writing pages

Your students will love getting creative with this fun Turkey in Disguise Writing Craft.

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AVID Thanksgiving Activity - Speed Philosophical Chairs Debate for Team Building: Use this speed philosophical chairs icebreaker to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking/listening in your classroom as well as get students in the Thanksgiving spirit! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 fun debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "You should not start decorating for Christmas until after Thanksgiving."

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What's Included:

• A teach slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide which includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20 speed philosophical chairs Halloween themed debate statements
• A 5 minute silent timer embedded in each slide

The Steps:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and we will define the two sides

of the debate (Agree/Disagree).

2. You will move to the side

of the room with the position that you intend to defend.

3. A timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.

4. Be concise and attempt to keep you contributions to less than 30 seconds each. The goal is to have an up-tempo debate, where the arguments for and against the prompt are batted back and forth with quick, verbal strokes. When the timer goes off, the conversation is immediately over.

5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

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This is the perfect grab and go activity to do before Thanksgiving break! Students can draw or write what they’re grateful for, then proudly display their work on a bulletin board. Perfect for promoting gratitude and social-emotional learning in a colorful and interactive way. This is also the perfect classroom or hallway decor for the month of November!

What's Included

• 8 different colored cell phone photo albums with the title " I am thankful for"
• includes a black and white version

Directions

• Either choose a color cell phone or let students choose a color they prefer

• Students can either draw or write to fill up their “photo album” with things they are thankful for

• Display on a hallway bulletin board or in your classroom!

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Thanksgiving Retro & Preppy | Groovy Early Finishers Coloring Page for SEL Freebie: Explore a fun and creative Thanksgiving activity with this retro Thanksgiving coloring page! Perfect for classrooms and home use, this printable page is perfect for early finishers, indoor recess, Thanksgiving parties, writing prompts, and more!

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What's Included:

• 1 Thanksgiving coloring page with a unique background and gratitude inspirational quote

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Increase critical thinking skills with this Thanksgiving-themed Costa's Levels of Inquiry activity! Students will categorize questions based on Costa’s Level 1, 2, and 3, promoting deeper understanding of Thanksgiving traditions and ELA skills. Perfect for engaging middle and high school students in critical analysis and creative thinking during the holiday season!

What's Included

• 10 Thanksgiving-themed questions for categorizing into Costa's Level of Questioning
• Answer key

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Challenge your students during the Autumn season with this engaging team-building icebreaker activity! Students will use this digital resource to decipher some of the most commonly spoken fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving-themed phrases shown in a series of picture characters. Some emojis can be combined without the use of words to create a new word or phrase! For example, a pumpkin emoji that is combined with a pie emoji translates to "pumpkin pie."

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Directions:

• Name the Emoji Phrase is a very loosely structured game so setup will be determined by how you want to play.
• Consider splitting the class into teams and providing a buzzer OR creating 2 lines and having the first 2 players of each line compete against each other.
• The team that guesses the phrase first gets the point.
• The team that has the most points at the end of all the slides is the winner.

What's Included:

30 Emoji picture guessing slides

30 Answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)

Editable templates

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Get students talking and connecting with this Find Someone Who After Thanksgiving Break activity! Perfect for icebreakers, brain breaks, or team building in your middle school and high school classes. This activity will build classroom community while reinforcing speaking and listening skills.

Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various fall break themed categories, such as "find someone who stayed up past midnight."

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What's included:

• 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in
• Editable Google Slides version with and without clipart

How to use:

• Students will walk around the room and find different classmates who fits the description in each box.
• Once they find a classmate who fits the description they will have them write their name in the box.
• Students will keep finding classmates until all 16 boxes are full.

Some examples included:

Find someone who did not eat turkey.

Find someone who stayed up past midnight.

Find someone who ate leftovers.

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Use this no-prep Thanksgiving game as an icebreaker, brain break, morning meeting activity, community building game or Thanksgiving Party game during the month of November. Your students will make predictions and guess the mystery zoomed in picture! Students can discuss clues to come up with an answer, share their observations with the class, and agree or disagree with their classmates' predictions! The mystery picture will be revealed on the following slide.

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What's Included?

• 15 zoomed in mystery pictures
• 15 answer slides (one behind each guessing slide)
• directions slide
• editable template to customize your own zoomed in images

Directions:

• Students will look at the zoomed-in portion of a larger image. The first slide of each picture is at maximum zoom.
• Students will try to guess what the picture is based on the tiny glimpse.
• The following slide reveals the mystery picture.

Some zoomed in pictures you will see:

• Pecans
• Cooked turkey
• Thanksgiving table setting
• Turkey Trot

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Use this Thanksgiving no-prep icebreaker would you rather game as a brain break, fall morning meeting activity, community building game, or for discussion starters. You can also use this digital autumn-themed resource for questions as writing prompts or even debate prompts. Your students will love having the opportunity to share and discuss some fun and silly fall traditions!

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What's Included:

• 25 would you rather slides
• 1 directions slide
• 1 directions slide template for you to add your own directions
• 1 editable template for you to add your own would you rather prompts

Directions:

• Display the slides for students.
• Read the two options and students must choose which one they would rather do.
• Students can respond in many different ways: sharing with the whole class, small groups, partners, debating, writing, etc.

Would You Rather Example Slides:

Have a beak for a mouth OR have turkey wings for arms

Live without taste OR live without smell

Eat a whole turkey before a sports activity OR drink gravy instead

of water for a day

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This resource features an engaging, Thanksgiving-themed worksheet to help students practice identifying figurative language. This can be given at the start of class, end of class, for homework, as part of an emergency substitute plan, or in a stations activity. Kids can never get enough practice with figurative language and this is the perfect worksheet to work on this food, family, and fun-filled holiday! (Did you catch the alliteration!?)

Terms Used:

- Metaphor

- Simile

- Oxymoron

- Hyperbole

- Onomatopoeia

- Allusion

- Personification

- Alliteration

- Idiom

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Spanish Thanksgiving Sudoku Puzzle

Use these sudoku games to have some fun with Spanish Thanksgiving themed vocabulary. 4 versions are included making a total of 36 vocabulary words. Students place a word in each empty box so that each row, column and nine box square contains each of the words.

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Thanksgiving vocabulary - 30 ESL Thanksgiving speaking prompt question cards

Want your students to use their THANKSGIVING vocabulary in fun and meaningful conversations? This LOW PREP activity is a fun way to encourage your students to speak more to each other about Thanksgiving traditions and holiday fun. This resource is suitable for any curriculum in which English is the language spoken, and will work best for students in 6th to 12th grade. The questions are written without the assumption that students have grown up celebrating Thanksgiving making them suitable for every situation.

You can use these cards after learning specific vocabulary for Thanksgiving during the month of November or as a fun interactive activity on a day when you want to just focus on speaking and reviewing vocabulary in a different way.

All cards are visually stimulating and feature a circle to punch out in the upper left corner so that you can print, laminate, cut out, punch holes and hook the cards together with a ring. Using these cards this way makes it easy to pull them out year after year to use as NO PREP speaking activities. A pdf with only one card per page is included for easy projection when you don't want to print.

Included:

➤ 30 color speaking prompt cards

➤ 30 black and white speaking prompt cards

➤ Easy to project file for whole class activity

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Speaking / writing question cards for Thanksgiving - How do you..?

This set of intermediate ESL conversation prompt cards will have your students talking to each other in English. Of course, they can also be used with native speakers to spark lively conversations or as journal prompts about Thanksgiving. Each and every card is unique and makes your students think about how to do things in detail in English. Some are more advanced than others. Just print them, cut them out, and then sort them into stacks of different levels of difficulty for years and years of no-prep activities. The cards are in English only.

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This activity is perfect for small groups or as a whole class activity. Use these cards as a review and vocabulary builder An easy to project PDF with only one card per page is included in case you want to work on the questions as a class without printing and cutting out the cards. Encourage your students to give a thorough complete answer and use the question as a basis for discussion. If the question is "How do you build a snowman", there should be a discussion, not a one line answer "with snow.." These questions are great for essay writing as well!

ex: " I love building snowmen! In fact, I wish it would snow more, so I could make one more often! When it snows a lot, at least two inches or more, I put on my winter clothes and my gloves and head to the park. There I start by...." and so on. It's a really fun activity.

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Included:

30 question cards

Easy to project PDF file (one card per page)

There are many ways you can use this set of cards:

➤ Print, laminate, cut out, punch holes and attach on a ring for small groups to ask and answer questions.

➤ Use as a warm-up speaking activity or ice breaker with a conversation partner. As students enter the classroom have them choose 2-3 cards from a box.

➤ Students who finish their work earlier than others can choose a few of the cards and write out their answers including reasons for their preferences.

➤ Use as exit tickets. Give each student a card before the end of class and as they walk out of the room they tell the teacher their answer.

➤ Stations: Put students into groups and divide the cards amongst them. Have groups rotate to a new station as they finish the cards.

➤ Use the cards with board games. Students must answer a question in order to move.

➤ Great resource for tutoring sessions.

➤ You can also use it as a writing exercise!

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Thanksgiving Scattergories Games

These are really fun games to play before and after Thanksgiving with your students as they practice and build their vocabulary. Scattergories is the perfect classroom group game! You can play this game with students of any age or level. Fun for any classroom and perfect for kids learning English - ESL.

Players attempt to create answers for each of the four categories on their game. This should be a fast moving game and there are only spaces for six words per category. The MAXIMUM they can write is six words so they have to choose them wisely. Students can be creative and flexible with their answers, but other players can challenge them!

6 games are included with 4 different categories on each page. You can either print out the game sheets or project them to save paper and ink. For younger students you can allow more time for them to think and write, while older students will love the challenge of the timer.

How to play (written on each game sheet): Come up with as many words as you can that are related to the one at the top of each row. Once the timer goes off, you just count and compare how many words you got for each category with the other players. If they came up with the same word as you, that word doesn't count toward your score. Whoever has the most words per list wins that round.

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Thanksgiving Writing Worksheets - No prep printables

Use these 6 worksheets to get your students writing about Thanksgiving, what they like to do, what they like to eat, and what they're thankful for. Three of the worksheets include space for drawings and some writing, while the other three require more writing. Have a look at the preview video to see them up close!

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Thanksgiving Dots and Boxes Activity

An easy and fun no-prep game that will elicit a lot of exposure to 60 different Thanksgiving themed words. This is a one-page dots & boxes game including directions. This game could be laminated and used repeatedly with dry-erase markers or played on an iPad with annotation/whiteboard tools.

Objective: Complete more boxes than your component. Each player draws lines using a different color. On your turn, make a horizontal or vertical line from one dot to another. Say the words on either side of the line you drew. If you complete a box on your turn, draw an X in the box using your color. Once all of the boxes have been completed, count to see who got the most.

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