Elementary School Thanksgiving Google Apps

This resource includes an English and Spanish version of the International Peace Day - PowerPoint Presentation. These are perfect for your bilingual or dual-language classrooms and schools!

This presentation is designed for children to connect the history of Pearl Harbor and relate it to their own lives. This resource approaches this historical event through reflection and learning with the goal of promoting peace and dialogue, even in the face of differences. This amazing resource offers an excellent opportunity to present and develop unique, real-life ideas for our students.

Each slide provides a straightforward, child-friendly description of the history and the most significant facts related to what happened in Pearl Harbor. Additionally, it helps children understand the concept of conflict's historical and contemporary existence, emphasizing the importance of its prevention and solution.

Your students will find this event easy to comprehend and will be able to learn unique lessons from it for their lives.

The two resources I am including in this bundle are sold separately. Below is the list of what you will receive. You can click on each link to read a detailed description of each product.

This resource includes:

• Slide 1: What is Pearl Harbor Day? (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 2: Pearl Harbor Attack - Part I (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 3: Pearl Harbor Attack Part II (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 4: Where is Pearl Harbor? (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 5: Why Japan Attacked Pearl Harbor? (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 6: Life in Hawaii After the Attack (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 7: Heroes of Pearl Harbor (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 8: USS Arizona Memorial (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 9: Lessons Learned from Pearl Harbor (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 10: How We Remember Pearl Harbor (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 11: Pearl Harbor Reflections (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 12: We Have Learned About ... Pearl Harbor Day (English and Spanish Version)

Formats:

• Powerpoint
• PDF
• Google Slides
• Keynote
• JPG images

Enjoy this Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Resource!

Each of the four Who What Where When Why Differentiated Worksheets comes with a digital WH question version of the story. Students will read the Fall&Autum, Back to School, Thanksgiving, and Halloween-themed short stories and then answer the Who What Where When Why guided questions.

In the differentiated worksheets, students have the option to fill in the answers or choose from multiple-choice options. The Google Slides digital version has audio support for questions and answers, multiple-choice answers, and self-checking.

This resource includes:

• 1 Back to School-themed (September) digital short story with guided, self-checking WH questions with 2 printable version worksheets with two differentiated reading comprehension levels (with answer key)
• 1 Halloween-themed (October) digital short story with guided, self-checking WH questions with 2 printable version worksheets with two differentiated reading comprehension levels (with answer key)
• 1 Thanksgiving-themed (November) digital short story with guided, self-checking WH questions with 2 printable version worksheets with two differentiated reading comprehension levels (with answer key)
• 1 Fall & Autumn-themed (also found in the four seasons bundle) digital short story with guided, self-checking WH questions with 2 printable version worksheets with two differentiated reading comprehension levels (with answer key)

Common Core State Standards: RL.2.1

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Dive deep in your long division practice with Thanksgiving companion task cards activities! With 72 task cards for long division your Thanksgiving practice and review will feel cohesive and stay engaging at the same time! You'll have a fresh set of Thanksgiving task cards for your long division math stations and activities ready to go!

Would it be nice to have options for traditional math task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile bundle of Thanksgiving long division task cards has multiple levels of your Thanksgiving math practice covered.  Includes mental math division, estimating quotients, remainders, interpreting remainders, division as sharing, area model division, partial quotient division, and DMSB division.

This Bundle Includes:

✅ 36 Thanksgiving themed beginning long division task cards to introduce the skill

✅ 36 Thanksgiving themed long division task cards to build fluency with division

All the Thanksgiving long division task cards come in these 5 formats so you'll always have exactly what you need!

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.

• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.

• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.

• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.

• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

Includes Practice for all these long division skills:

• mental math division

• estimating quotients

• remainders

• interpreting remainders

• division as sharing

• assisted area models

• area model strategy

• assisted partial quotient

• partial quotient strategy

• standard algorithm for division: divide, multiply, subtract bring down (DMSB)

How to prepare the Thanksgiving long division task cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Thanksgiving long division task cards in action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.

• Hang task cards on the walls or place in at a table to be completed as a math station activity.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure such as Quiz Quiz Trade or Fan and Pick.

• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class or use as bell ringers

• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).

• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

More Great Resources:

Thanksgiving Factors & Multiples Task Cards- November Review & Practice Activity

Thanksgiving Comparing Fractions Task Cards - Math Practice & Review Activity #1

Thanksgiving Beginner 2 Digit by 2 Digit Multiplication Task Cards Math Activity

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This CKLA Unit 2 Vocabulary digital games bundle is a dynamic and engaging digital vocabulary game designed specifically for 5th-grade teachers and their students who have adopted the Amplify curriculum. This educational tool has been meticulously crafted to make vocabulary acquisition not only fun but also highly effective. It's a must-have addition to any 5th-grade classroom looking to boost students' comprehension skills.

As I work through this curriculum I am making resources to help other teachers navigate CKLA and what they need in their classrooms to be successful. Make sure to follow me to get notified when I add additional resources.

What's included:

• 3 PowerPoint file
• 3 Google Slides link
• 69 tier-one and tier-three Vocabulary words based on CKLA Unit 2
• Vocabulary words from Lesson 1 through Lesson 14

To protect my work and the clipart artist's work the files are not editable.

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Thanksgiving ELA GOOGLE SLIDE Bundle: 2 Prereading Introductions *plus* Thanksgiving History Mini-lesson

A HISTORY MINI-LESSON-GOOGLE SLIDE

What is Thanksgiving? -

This 10 slide digital PowerPoint Lesson answers basic questions about the holiday. Created in a question/answer format, the historical information is clear and concise; perfect for a brief reminder of the original story. The historical information is brought to life with bold photos and an embedded video link for the visual learner.

• When is Thanksgiving?
• Where is Thanksgiving celebrated?
• When did Thanksgiving become a holiday?
• Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?
• What was the first Thanksgiving?
• Why is Thanksgiving important?

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2 GOOGLE SLIDE PREREADING SHORT STORY INTRODUCTIONS provide digital pre-reading resources, historical background info, vocabulary word study, practice, and assessment for the 2 GRATITUDE THEMED short stories; perfect for Thanksgiving:

**TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN by O. Henry
**THANK YOU MA’AM by Langston Hughes
* PDF LINKS to texts are included

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, Vocabulary Organizer, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.

POWERPOINT PREREADING INTRODUCTIONS

1. **Author Bio:** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.
2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.
3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions :** Our PowerPoint lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.
4.**Bold Photos:** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.
5.**Parts of Speech:** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.
6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.
7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.
8.**Context Clues Sentences:** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.
9.**Quizlet Practice:** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.
10. **Fun Facts** photos and video links are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:
· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion/prediction
· Create predictions about text7
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation

PRINTABLE USES: word walls and interactive notebooks

These lessons are also available in Google Slides.

These Winter-Themed Growth Mindset Positive Notes from the Teacher are perfect for encouraging students in any 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade classroom!

Are you teaching your students about growth mindset and fixed mindset? Create a culture of success, perseverance, and motivation with these growth mindset notes for students. This product also includes a list of teacher suggestions for product use.

There are 24 different encouraging notes from the teacher. Each growth mindset note comes in full color and black-and-white (with 6 notes per page).

You may also be interested in Growth Mindset Notes from the Teacher that can be used during any of year. Check them out here:

• GROWTH MINDSET NOTES FROM THE TEACHER

NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

These digital stickers growth mindset notes for winter now include THREE OPTIONS... a printable version, a Google Slides™ version, and a digital stickers version (saved as PNG files). Please refer to the final 8 pages of the file for digital instructions and links! You will download a ZIPPED file to access all the options in this product.

Do you want DAILY Growth Mindset Bell Ringers for ANY GRADE LEVEL? Choose your grade here:

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Thanksgiving-Themed Logic Puzzles Math Escape Room

This exciting and engaging Thanksgiving Logic Puzzles Math Escape Room is the perfect way to challenge your upper elementary and middle school students with fun math problems while celebrating the holiday season! Designed for classroom use, this resource includes both a Google Form and a printable version, along with an answer key and recording sheet to ensure a smooth and stress-free experience for teachers.

What’s Included:

• Google Form Escape Room: An interactive, digital escape room that students can complete individually or in teams. The Google Form is designed with a series of brain teasers, riddles, and math puzzles, each tied to Thanksgiving themes. With branching logic, students must solve each puzzle to progress through the escape room, offering a fun challenge and building problem-solving skills. There are seven tasks total.
• Printable Version: The same fun and challenging puzzles are available in a printable format, making this resource flexible for in-person, hybrid, or remote learning environments. You can easily distribute the printout to students, allowing them to solve the puzzles on paper.
• Answer Key: Included is a comprehensive answer key, making it easy for teachers to quickly check student progress and ensure the answers are correct.
• Recording Sheet: A recording sheet is provided for students to write down their answers, which helps track their progress and serves as a great way for teachers to assess understanding.

Key Features:

• Math Challenges: The puzzles cover a range of mathematical concepts appropriate for upper elementary and middle school students. These include operations some brain buzzles as well as mathematical
• operations.
• Thanksgiving Theme: Each puzzle is inspired by Thanksgiving traditions, like turkeys, pumpkins, and holiday feasts. This theme helps to make learning more engaging while connecting math to the holiday season.
• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving: Students will need to use logic, reasoning, and mathematical skills to crack codes, solve riddles, and escape the virtual or paper “locked room.”
• Flexible Format: Whether you prefer a digital experience or a traditional paper-based activity, this escape room offers both options, making it adaptable to your classroom setup.
• Perfect for Groups or Individuals: This activity can be done solo or in small groups, making it a great classroom or homework activity. It encourages collaboration and critical thinking in a fun and interactive way.

Why It’s Great for Teachers:

• No Prep: The Google Form is ready to use right away, and the printable version can be easily handed out. Just download, share the link, or print, and you're ready to go!
• Engaging & Fun: Students love the thrill of an escape room, and the Thanksgiving theme adds a seasonal touch that makes the math challenges even more exciting.
• Encourages Collaboration: When done in groups, students must work together to solve the puzzles, encouraging teamwork, communication, and peer learning.
• Assess Understanding: The recording sheet and answer key help you track individual or group progress, so you can easily assess how well your students are grasping the material.

This Thanksgiving Logic Puzzles Math Escape Room is a fantastic way to celebrate the season while reinforcing math skills in a creative and fun format. Perfect for adding excitement to your classroom activities and challenging your students in an enjoyable way!

Want to give your ESL ELL Newcomers a fun project to work on descriptive writing and speaking by presenting to their peers**?** You will get a teacher slide deck with TONS of interactive slides that teach all about Thanksgiving in a way that is engaging and at their level. 

WHOLE WEEK OF games, vocabulary, writing with scaffolds and frames, and an entire student project FOR THANKSGIVING!

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Complete research
• Have the opportunity to expand grammar skills.

This project is PACKED with activities to engage your ESL students. You will have everything you need to have an AMAZING fall unit.

What’s Included:

• 50 Interactive Google Slides/PearDeck ready
• The complete story of Thanksgiving chunked into 3 parts for Newcomers w/visuals
• Explaining traditions of Thanksgiving
• Writing scaffolds with sentence frames
• A look into Native Americans and their land
• Engaging videos to tell about unique cultural perspectives
• Search activity for what tribe used to live where you do now
• Thanksgiving Vocabulary Heads Up Game
• Brain break video
• Picture Word Inductive model Activity 
• Speaking practice with guided sentence frames for peer discussions
• Best of all??? STUDENT PROJECT! A complete student Google Slides Template (14 slides) where students can make their Thanksgiving Feast Party! They will tell you about the party details and make an entire menu!

DON'T FORGET THE PDF Extras!!!!!!!

• 19 pages of resources
• Tons of vocabulary
• Heads Up Game
• Reading Comprehension
• Writing Activities
• Food Description Cards
• Describe Me--Food describing writing activity

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Danielle W. wrote, “This was such a fun activity to complete with my ELL newcomers! We learned about Thanksgiving and then the students completed the menu. Some students included traditional "American" Thanksgiving foods, while others selected foods they enjoy from their country. It was enjoyable for me to learn more about each student's culture and likes. We celebrated with a Thanksgiving feast! I will use this project again this year. Thanks for a fun resource!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Brain Baked (TeachShare Seller). wrote, “This was the perfect way to introduce and talk about thanksgiving with my ELL students. I was looking for something interactive that included the history and not just the modern traditions. Thank you for being thorough and helping my students learn about this holiday!” 

This Thanksgiving project will bring some fun and engagement to your classroom! You don’t want to miss out on the INFORMATIVE project. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

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Elevate your classroom's Thanksgiving celebration with this beautiful BUNDLE. This comprehensive package includes three engaging resources to make your lessons impactful: a vibrant Thanksgiving PowerPoint Presentation with discussion and reflection questions to spark meaningful conversations, a Thanksgiving Letter Pack Writing Activity that fosters creativity and gratitude through easy-to-follow prompts, and a Thanksgiving Turkey Craft and Writing Activity that boosts fine motor skills while reinforcing literacy and values.

Teachers love this bundle because it saves time by providing everything needed in one package. The content keeps students interested and actively participating, promoting critical thinking, creativity, and fine motor skills. This resource is perfect for classroom activities, homework, or holiday projects, enhancing your teaching experience with materials designed to inspire and engage young minds.

This collection includes:

• Resource 1: Thanksgiving PowerPoint Presentation Discussion and Reflection Questions
• Resource 2:Thanksgiving Gratitude Letter Writing Activity Pack for Appreciation
• Resource 3: Thanksgiving Turkey Craft, Writing, and Decor Activity

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Dive deep in your nouns and verbs practice with Thanksgiving companion task cards activities! With 72 task cards for nouns and verbs your Thanksgiving practice and review will feel cohesive and stay engaging at the same time! You'll have a fresh set of Thanksgiving task cards for your grammar stations and activities ready to go!

Would it be nice to have options for traditional grammar task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile bundle of Thanksgiving nouns and verbs task cards has multiple levels of your Thanksgiving grammar practice covered. 

This Bundle Includes:

✅ 40 Thanksgiving nouns and pronouns task cards

✅ 36 Thanksgiving verb tense and verb usage task cards

All the Thanksgiving nouns and verbs task cards come in these 5 formats so you'll always have exactly what you need!

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.

• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.

• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.

• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.

• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

Includes Practice for all these nouns and verbs skills:

• possessive nouns

• common and proper nouns

• spelling changes for plural nouns

• irregular plural nouns

• noun and pronoun agreement

• verb tense

• irregular verbs

• subject-verb agreement

• linking and helping verbs

How to prepare the Thanksgiving nouns and verbs task cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Thanksgiving nouns and verbs task cards in action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.

• Hang task cards on the walls or place in at a table to be completed as an ELA station activity.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure such as Quiz Quiz Trade or Fan and Pick.

• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class or use as bell ringers

• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).

• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

More Great Resources:

Nonfiction Text Structures Anchor Charts & Task Cards - Reading Skill Activities

Prefixes & Suffixes Task Cards Bundle- Thanksgiving Practice & Review Vocabulary
Thanksgiving Sentence Type and Structure Task Cards - Grammar Practice & Review

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Thanksgiving INTERDISCIPLINARY GOOGLE SLIDE Bundle includes

3 cross-curricular lessons for the holiday:

• Prereading Vocabulary Introduction to short story, The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote
• Quotation Analysis Writing Lesson
• *Plus* Thanksgiving History Mini-lesson

..............................HISTORY MINI-LESSON-GOOGLE SLIDE....................

What is Thanksgiving? -

This 10 slide digital PowerPoint Lesson answers basic questions about the holiday. Created in a question/answer format, the historical information is clear and concise; perfect for a brief reminder of the original story. The historical information is brought to life with bold photos and an embedded video link for the visual learner.

• When is Thanksgiving?
• Where is Thanksgiving celebrated?
• When did Thanksgiving become a holiday?
• Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?
• What was the first Thanksgiving?
• Why is Thanksgiving important?

.......................................READING LESSON-GOOGLE SLIDES................................

PREREADING SHORT STORY INTRODUCTION provides digital pre-reading resources, historical background info, vocabulary word study, practice, and assessment for the short story, *The Thanksgiving Visitor, by Truman Capote.
* Audio Link to text included

PDF FILE. Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing 8 printable worksheets to be used with the PPT lesson! These printables include Connotation and Grammar sort, Word Study, Vocabulary Organizer, and Vocabulary Quiz with optional word bank and answer key.

POWERPOINT PREREADING INTRODUCTION

1. **Author Bio:** To connect vocabulary with real-world context, we provide author biographies related to each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the words in the context of the author's life experience.
2. **Setting**: highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links to prepare students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.
3. **Vocab with Concise Definitions :** Our PowerPoint lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context as it appears in the text.

Vocabulary Words: shiftless, surly, goad, menagerie, quibble, mirth, sacrilegious, skitter, suffuse, relegated

4.**Bold Photos:** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.
5.**Parts of Speech:** Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.
6. **Grammar Review & Sort** Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.
7. **Connotation Review & Sort** Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.
8.**Context Clues Sentences:** Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.
9.**Quizlet Practice:** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice sets tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.
10. **Fun Facts** photos and video links are inserted throughout to bring important elements of the story into context and aid comprehension

......................................WRITING LESSON-GOOGLE SLIDES.................................

This Google Slide Lesson in Gratitude Writing Prompts package provides 15 notable quotations for students to ponder, analyze and critique in a written paragraph format. The quotes express thankfulness and gratitude; perfect for Thanksgiving.

This month-long collection of higher-level thinking quotes will provide a catalyst for summarizing, paraphrasing, using synonyms, antonyms and thesaurus words in an organized sequence of complete sentences using the templates provided.

PRODUCT CONTAINS:

*PDF FILE: daily directions, teacher suggestions, hints and tips to improve written responses, printable writing templates for student support.

*GOOGLE SLIDE LESSON: 15 soothing, aesthetic quotation slides to be used daily or printed for the classroom selected specifically for student analysis

SEE what teachers are saying...

“What a wonderful and relaxing way to start each morning! I love the quotes!! This resource set my kids up for success and gave me a very specific method to improve their writing.“

These lessons are also available in PowerPoint

Fall-Themed Growth Mindset Positive Notes from the Teacher:

These Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Fall-Themed Growth Mindset Notes from the Teacher are perfect for any 2nd-6th grade classroom!

Are you teaching your students about growth mindset and fixed mindset? Create a culture of success, perseverance, and motivation with these growth mindset notes for students. This product also includes a list of teacher suggestions for product use.

There are 24 different teacher notes included. Each growth mindset note comes in full color and black-and-white (with 6 notes per page).

You may also be interested in Growth Mindset Notes from the Teacher that can be used during any of year. Check them out here:

GROWTH MINDSET NOTES FROM THE TEACHER

NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

These digital stickers growth mindset notes for fall now include THREE OPTIONS... a printable version, a Google Slides™ version, and a digital stickers version (saved as JPG files). Please refer to the final 8 pages of the file for digital instructions and links! You will download a ZIPPED file to access all the options in this product.

Do you want DAILY Growth Mindset Bell Ringers for ANY GRADE LEVEL? Choose your grade here:

GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES: Daily Warm-Ups for Kinder-1st Grade

GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES: Daily Warm-Ups for 2ND-3RD Grade

GROWTH MINDSET ACTIVITIES: Daily Warm-Ups for 4th Grade and Up

For this activity, you and your students will need access to Google Sheets. For best use, each student should have their own device.

Engage your students in a fun and interactive way with this Math Pixel Art Activity with Google Sheets! Perfect for reinforcing order of operations, this activity challenges students to solve order of operation problem to reveal a hidden pixel art picture. Each set gets harder as they go, allowing you to differentiate for students!

What you're getting:

• Pixel Art 1 - Level One (turkey)
• Pixel Art 2 - Level Two (pumpkin pie)
• Pixel Art 3 - Level Three (pilgrim hat)

There are 19 total problems in EACH pixel art, totaling 57 total problems.

How it works:

• Students will solve a series of order of operation problems, each corresponding to a color or section of a pixelated image.
• As they evaluate the expressions correctly, they "fill in" the picture, pixel by pixel, revealing a fun design at the end.
• The more problems they solve, the clearer the image becomes, providing instant feedback and a sense of accomplishment!

Why it's great for the classroom:

• Engaging & Interactive: Keeps students focused while practicing essential math skills.
• Instant Feedback: Students can immediately see the results of their work, motivating them to keep solving problems.
• Differentiation: Different levels of difficulty make it ideal for any classroom setting!

This Math Pixel Art Activity is a fantastic way to combine creativity with learning, making algebra fun and exciting for students of all ages!

Enriquece la celebración de Acción de Gracias de tu clase con este precioso BUNDLE. Este completo paquete incluye tres fantásticos recursos para que tu clase sea impactante: una excelente presentación en PowerPoint con preguntas que generan debate y reflexión para suscitar conversaciones significativas, una actividad de escritura de cartas de Acción de Gracias que fomenta la creatividad y la gratitud a través de instrucciones fáciles de seguir, y una actividad de manualidades y escritura del pavo de Acción de Gracias que fomenta las habilidades motoras finas a la vez que refuerza la escritura y los valores.

A los maestros les encanta este BUNDLE porque ahorran tiempo al proporcionar todo lo necesario en un solo paquete. El contenido mantiene a los estudiantes interesados y participando activamente, fomentando el pensamiento crítico, la creatividad, los valores y la motricidad fina. Este recurso es perfecto para las actividades de clase, los deberes o los proyectos de vacaciones, ya que mejora la experiencia de clase con materiales diseñados para inspirar y motivar a las mentes más jóvenes.

Esta colección incluye:

• Recurso 1: Acción de Gracias Presentación PowerPoint | Discussion and Reflection Questions
• Recurso 2: Acción de Gracias Actividad | Letter Pack and Writing Activity
• Recurso 3: Acción de Gracias Manualidad | Writing Activity

¡Feliz Día de Acción de Gracias!

Keep your 2nd quarter reading practice fresh with seasonal task cards activities! With 108 task cards for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Winter your reading skills practice and review will stay engaging for the whole quarter! You'll have a fresh set of reading task cards for stations and activities ready to go!

Would it be nice to have options for traditional reading skills task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile bundle of 2nd quarter reading skills task cards has your reading practice covered. 

This Bundle Includes:

✅ 36 Thanksgiving reading skills task cards

✅ 36 Christmas reading skills task cards

✅ 36 Winter reading skills task cards

All the 2nd quarter reading skills task cards come in these 5 formats so you'll always have exactly what you need!

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.

• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.

• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.

• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.

• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

Includes Practice for all these reading skills:

• Inference

• Point of View

• Fact vs. Opinion

• Cause and Effect

• Author's Purpose

• Fantasy vs. Reality

• Non-Fiction Text Features

How to prepare the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Winter reading skills task cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

2nd Quarter Seasonal reading skills task cards in action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.

• Hang task cards on the walls or place in at a table to be completed as a reading station activity.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure such as Quiz Quiz Trade or Fan and Pick.

• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class

• Use a task card each day as bell ringers

• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).

• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

More Great Resources:

Nonfiction Text Structures Anchor Charts & Task Cards - Reading Skill Activities

Christmas Context Clues Task Cards - December Vocabulary Practice and Review
Winter Multiple Meaning Words Task Cards - Snowman Vocabulary Practice & Review

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Turkey's Eggcellent Easter Activities:

Have you read Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano? This is her newest picture book in that series and it's dedicated to Easter!

This literature companion for Turkeys Eggcellent Easter is perfect for Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade. You will find a variety of ELA activities in addition to a retelling activity that is particularly beneficial for ESL and speech teachers.

This story is written by the same author as Turkey Trouble, Turkey Trick or Treat, Turkey Goes to School, and Turkey Claus. You can also find a BUNDLE of activities for these titles here:

• The Turkey Series of Books by Wendi Silvano BUNDLE

The following topics/activities are included in this literature unit:

• Characters and Setting
• First, Next, Then, Last
• Turkey's Eggcellent Easter Sequencing Strips
• Design an Easter Egg
• Vocabulary Cards
• Writing Prompt
• 2 pages of Turkey's Eggcellent Easter Retelling Sticks in black and white and in color
• Unscramble sentences
• Onomatopoeia Pictures
• Mini-book (students assemble pages and illustrate the book as well as trace the text for two pages of the book). Please see the sample pages in the preview.

Check out the ENTIRE Wendi Silvano COLLECTION IN A MONEY-SAVING BUNDLE HERE. The individual files can be found below:

• TURKEY TRICK OR TREAT LITERATURE UNIT

• TURKEY TROUBLE LITERATURE UNIT

• TURKEY CLAUS LITERATURE UNIT

• TURKEY'S VALENTINE SURPRISE

• TURKEY'S EGGCELLENT EASTER

• TURKEY GOES TO SCHOOL

NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet. The mini-book is the only activity from this file that is not included in the digital version.

This product is appropriate for K-2. Please check the preview prior to purchasing this product. If you have any questions, please send me a message.

This FULL BUNDLE includes the following literature companions:

• TURKEY TRICK OR TREAT LITERATURE UNIT
• TURKEY TROUBLE LITERATURE UNIT
• TURKEY CLAUS LITERATURE UNIT

This resource includes an English and Spanish version of the Thanksgiving Day PowerPoint Presentation. Enhance your Thanksgiving lessons with this dynamic and meaningful Thanksgiving PowerPoint Presentation. This resource offers a well-rounded journey into Thanksgiving history, traditions, and the spirit of gratitude, designed to engage students through discussion, reflection, and interactive visuals. Here’s why this Thanksgiving resource is an essential addition to your classroom:

Why Should You Use This?

Thanksgiving is more than a holiday, it's an opportunity to explore gratitude, kindness, and community themes. This presentation helps students connect the historical roots of Thanksgiving to personal reflection, making the holiday’s lessons relevant and memorable. By blending facts with reflective questions, students can see Thanksgiving as a time for learning, giving back, and recognizing the values of thankfulness and togetherness.

What Skills Are Students Working on with This Resource?

This resource encourages critical thinking, active listening, and self-reflection, making it ideal for classrooms focused on developing empathy and historical awareness. Through questions that spark discussion, students work on their social and emotional skills, especially considering their own experiences with gratitude and community. Additionally, this presentation supports comprehension and verbal communication skills as students discuss, share, and deepen their understanding of Thanksgiving.

The two resources I am including in this bundle are sold separately. Below is the list of what you will receive. You can click on each link to read a detailed description of each product.

This resource includes:

• Slide 1: What is Thanksgiving? (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 2: The History of Thanksgiving - Part I (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 3: The History of Thanksgiving - Part II (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 4: Cooperation Between Native Americans and Pilgrims (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 5: Who was Squanto? (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 6: Thanksgiving Traditions (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 7: Thanksgiving Around the World (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 8: Giving back: Acts of kindness on Thanksgiving (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 9: Gratitude (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 10: How Can I Be More Grateful? (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 11: Thanksgiving Self-Reflection (English and Spanish Version)
• Slide 12: We have learned about - Thanksgiving Day (English and Spanish Version)

Formats:

• Powerpoint
• PDF
• Google Slides
• Keynote
• JPG images

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Dive deep in your 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication practice with Thanksgiving companion task cards activities! With 72 task cards for 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication your Thanksgiving practice and review will feel cohesive and stay engaging at the same time! You'll have a fresh set of Thanksgiving task cards for your 2-digit multiplication math stations and activities ready to go!

Would it be nice to have options for traditional math task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile bundle of Thanksgiving 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication task cards has multiple levels of your Thanksgiving math practice covered.  Includes using fact patterns for multiplying zero digit numbers such as 60 x 30, using area models for a zero digit number x a 2-digit number such as 50 x 28, rounding to estimate the product of 2-digit factors, using arrays to multiply 2-digit factors, word problems, partial products, the distributive property, and the standard algorithm.

This Bundle Includes:

✅ 36 Thanksgiving themed beginning 2-digit multiplication task cards to introduce the skill

✅ 36 Thanksgiving themed 2-digit multiplication task cards to build fluency with division

All the Thanksgiving 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication task cards come in these 5 formats so you'll always have exactly what you need!

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.

• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.

• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.

• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.

• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

Includes Practice for all these 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication skills:

• using fact patterns for multiplying zero-digit numbers such as 60 x 30
• using area models for a zero digit number x a 2 digit number such as 50 x 28
• rounding to estimate the product of 2-digit factors
• using arrays to multiply 2-digit factors
• word problems involving 2-digit multiplication
• using partial products
• using the distributive property
• using the standard algorithm

How to prepare the Thanksgiving 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication task cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Thanksgiving 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication task cards in action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.

• Hang task cards on the walls or place in at a table to be completed as a math station activity.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure such as Quiz Quiz Trade or Fan and Pick.

• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class or use as bell ringers

• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).

• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

More Great Resources:

Thanksgiving Factors & Multiples Task Cards- November Review & Practice Activity

Thanksgiving Comparing Fractions Task Cards - Math Practice & Review Activity #1

Thanksgiving Long Division Task Cards Bundle - Practice & Review Math Activities

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Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

This Thanksgiving bundle includes a literature unit for Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano (illustrated by Lee Harper) and no-prep printable Thanksgiving Literacy Activities.

The links to each Thanksgiving product can be found here:

THANKSGIVING LITERACY ACTIVITIES – NO PREP

TURKEY TROUBLE LITERATURE UNIT

TURKEY TROUBLE:

Turkey Trouble is a hilarious Thanksgiving picture book for Kindergarten to 2nd grade. Turkey Trouble is written by the same author as Turkey Trick or Treat, a new (and hilarious) picture book about Halloween.

This file includes the following activities:

• Characters and Setting
• First, Next, Then, Last
• Sequencing Strips
• Turkey Could Have... (graphic organizer)
• Picture/Word Match
• If I Were a Turkey...
• Rhyming words
• Writing prompt
• 2 pages of Retelling Sticks in black and white and in color
• Friendly letter
• Unscramble sentences
• Gratitude Hearts
• Create a word find
• Turkey Trouble Mini-book (students assemble pages and illustrate the book as well as trace the text for two pages of the book).

Please see the sample pages in the preview. This product is appropriate for K-2. Please check the preview prior to purchasing this product. If you have any questions, please send me a message.

THANKSGIVING LITERACY ACTIVITIES:

Thanksgiving - These no-prep Thanksgiving PRINTABLE literacy activities for 2nd-4th grade will help you cover a lot of objectives in November!

This Thanksgiving packet includes the following:

• Various Thanksgiving Writing Prompts
• Gratitude Heart Note
• Thanksgiving Word Unscramble
• Main Idea and Details for use with any Thanksgiving book
• Thanksgiving Themed Persuasive Writing Prompt
• Thanksgiving Nouns and Adjectives
• ABC Order
• How-To Writing Prompt
• Compare and Contrast the First Thanksgiving to Present Day Thanksgiving
• Thanksgiving Newspaper Template and Prompt

NOTE: THIS FILE NOW INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

As of 10/24/20, this product includes a digital option (as well as the no-prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet. The mini-book is the only activity from this file that is not included in the digital version.

Technology Requirements:

• A Google Drive account
• If sharing with students, a Drive account that is linked to student Google accounts
• Can be shared/delivered on Google Classroom
• Only need access to Google Drive--no outside links to worry about!

These files can be used with iPads, chrome books, laptops, and desktops as long as your students have access to Google Drive or Classroom on a device. The digital portion of this product is on Google Slides.

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Kirsten Tulsian has 18 years of experience in elementary education. She has been a homeroom teacher for first grade, third grade, and fourth grade, as well as ESL. She has also been a school counselor for grades PK-6, an ESL pullout teacher for K-6, and a Reading Recovery Teacher. She received her Bachelor’s degree in elementary education and psychology from The University of Iowa and a Master’s of Education in school counseling from Sam Houston State University. She believes that students make the most progress when they are engaged in their hearts as well as their minds. Her resources offer relevant, rigorous, engaging content that nurtures the whole child.

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Dive deep into your prefixes and suffixes practice with Thanksgiving themed companion task cards activities! With 72 task cards for affixes your November practice and review will feel cohesive and stay engaging at the same time! You'll have a fresh set of Thanksgiving task cards for your vocabulary stations and activities ready to go!

Would it be nice to have options for traditional prefixes and suffixes task cards, black and white printable task cards, PowerPoint task cards, Google Slides task cards, and Easel task cards? Look no further. This versatile bundle of prefixes and suffixes task cards has multiple levels of your affixes vocabulary practice covered. 

All the Thanksgiving prefixes and suffixes task cards come in these 5 formats so you'll always have exactly what you need!

• Traditional quarter page task cards in full color to laminate and use year after year.

• Black and white printer friendly quarter page cards that you can use in the classroom or send home.

• PowerPoint single card slides that you can display from whole class discussion and solving, use as a bell ringer activity, or class cooperative structures.

• Google Slides single card slides with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned in Google Classroom.

• Easel ready activity with one card per page with pre-made answer boxes that can easily be assigned through Easel by TeachShare.

Includes Practice for all these affixes:

Level 1

• re-
• un-
• dis-
• non-
• pre-
• in-
• im-
• -er
• -est
• -ful
• -y
• -less

Level 2

• under-
• non-
• over-
• mid-
• bi-
• multi-
• tri-
• super-
• mis-
• semi-
• sub-
• tele-
• inter-
• -y
• -tion
• -ness
• -ly
• -ment
• -er
• -or
• -able
• -ship
• -ist
• -less
• -ence
• -ism
• -an
• -logy
• -ible
• -ance

How to prepare the Thanksgiving prefixes and suffixes task cards:

For traditional task cards: Print one copy of each card page. Laminate for durability to use year after year. Print enough copies of the recording sheets for each student in your class. B&W, PPT, and Google Slides versions are included for versatility.

Thanksgiving prefixes and suffixes task cards in action:

Task cards are so versatile. Here are just a few ideas.

• Scavenger Hunt in the room-Hide the task cards around the room and have students find and solve all the cards.

• Hang task cards on the walls or place in at a table to be completed as a vocabulary station activity.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite game.

• Use task cards as the content for your favorite cooperative learning structure such as Quiz Quiz Trade or Fan and Pick.

• Display one task card at a time (PPT version) and discuss as a class or use as bell ringers

• Assign a few task card slides a day in Google Classroom (Slides version).

• Print the black and white task cards to assign as homework.

More Great Resources:

Nonfiction Text Structures Anchor Charts & Task Cards - Reading Skill Activities

Thanksgiving Multiple Meaning Words Task Cards - Vocabulary Practice and Review

Thanksgiving Synonym & Antonym Task Cards- November Vocabulary Practice & Review

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Permission granted to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.