Veteran's Day is a wonderful time to teach your kindergarten and first grade students about service and patriotism. This Veteran's Day resource was designed with younger students in mind and is perfect for helping them learn about Veteran's Day, what a veteran is, freedom and sacrifice. Your students will love learning with the included student reader, hands-on center activities, games and worksheets.
This unit covers the following Veterans Day concepts :
• Who are veterans (family, friends, school staff, church members, etc)
• What it’s like to be a soldier
• Things soldiers sacrifice to keep our country free
• Freedoms that we have as Americans
Veteran's Day Activities include:
- A informational text to Read Aloud to build background knowledge
- 2 versions of a student reader (great for differentiation)
- Alphabet Center (Build the alphabet, order themed words with the correct letter, or ABC order)
- Writing thank you notes
- Worksheets –
- Counting by ones
- Skip counting by twos
- Sight words
- Simple addition
- Vocabulary
When writing a sentence there are rules to follow and each sentence must make sense.
November – the objective is to be able to make and write sentences This month only has 3 weeks of booklets to accommodate Thanksgiving holidays. The last week uses Thanksgiving pictures to write sentences.
• Week 1 – unscramble sentences
• Week 2 – finish the sentence.
• Week 3 – write a sentence about a Thanksgiving picture.
November – the objective is to be able to make and write sentences This month only has 3 weeks of booklets to accommodate Thanksgiving holidays. The last week uses Thanksgiving pictures to write sentences.
• Week 1 – unscramble sentences
• Week 2 – finish the sentence.
• Week 3 – write a sentence about a Thanksgiving picture.
Great practice for Thanksgiving thematic vocabulary. Simply print and laminate the picture cards/sentence cards to “hide” in the classroom.
The students should find a word/sentence posted in your classroom and write it in the correct box on the recording sheet.
There are three levels of the recording sheets so you can differentiate this activity.
1. Match the picture on the recording sheet to a picture card.
2. Find a picture card that has a word with a specific letter.
3. Find a sentence card that has the word on the response sheet.
If you want more meaningful “homework” for your First Grade students, this free November Calendar is for you. Students and their families will have fun doing activities such as:
· Talk about the temperature of the weather as shown on a thermometer.
· Discuss the changes that happens to water when it is frozen
· Select a toy and count how many adjectives you child can say about it.
· Talk about your family customs celebrated at Thanksgiving
There is an activity for every weekday. (Does not include weekends or holidays.)
The students should find a word/sentence posted in your classroom and write it in the correct box on the recording sheet.
There are three levels of the recording sheets so you can differentiate this activity.
1. Match the picture on the recording sheet to a picture card.
2. Find a picture card that has a word with a specific letter.
3. Find a sentence card that has the word on the response sheet.
Use a Thanksgiving theme to help students build sentences with these fun literacy center activities and worksheets.
Activity 1
Print copies of each sheet and let students
• read the sentence
• build the sentence (cut and paste)
• write the sentence
• draw a picture to go with the sentence
Activity 2
• Print and laminate the word cards.
• Students get all the cards with the same picture to unscramble and build a sentence.
• Students write the sentences they made.
Activity 3
· Read the words on the word tiles.
· Cut the tiles out.
· Arrange some of the words to make a Thanksgiving sentence.
· Write the sentence on the next page.
· Draw a picture of the sentence.
Activity 1
Print copies of each sheet and let students
• read the sentence
• build the sentence (cut and paste)
• write the sentence
• draw a picture to go with the sentence
Activity 2
• Print and laminate the word cards.
• Students get all the cards with the same picture to unscramble and build a sentence.
• Students write the sentences they made.
Activity 3
· Read the words on the word tiles.
· Cut the tiles out.
· Arrange some of the words to make a Thanksgiving sentence.
· Write the sentence on the next page.
· Draw a picture of the sentence.
By decoding glyphs, students will learn how to collect and interpret data in a fun way. They are an effective way for young students to practice and improve their communication skills without actually having to write.
With this resource you get 2 glyphs and a partner response sheet. The first glyph is a cut and paste turkey glyph, the second one is just coloring. Plus everything you will need to analyze the data with your class after they are finished creating their glyphs.
Your kindergarten or first grade students will love these.
With this resource you get 2 glyphs and a partner response sheet. The first glyph is a cut and paste turkey glyph, the second one is just coloring. Plus everything you will need to analyze the data with your class after they are finished creating their glyphs.
Your kindergarten or first grade students will love these.
FREE!
***Now the calendars are editable - I have had many requests to make these calendars editable and now they are! Just click on the day you want to change and type.***
If you want more meaningful “homework” for your First Grade students, this free November Calendar is for you. Students and their families will have fun doing activities such as:
· Talk about the temperature of the weather as shown on a thermometer.
· Discuss the changes that happens to water when it is frozen
· Select a toy and count how many adjectives you child can say about it.
· Talk about your family customs celebrated at Thanksgiving
There is an activity for every weekday. (Does not include weekends or holidays.)
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