Thanksgiving Poems

Many of my students are still at the stage of sounding out their words to write. Others are still trying to make that connection between the sounds they know and letters they are writing. However, the progress that they've made already this year is just HUGE! I typed the translations in the corner because I put these together in a class book that they could share with their parents.

What we did was name a food or something Thanksgiving-y and then put an adjective in front of it. I also asked for a title and a summary sentence at the end. Here's what they came up with:

Turkey Big Turkey

Squishy potatoes

fat turkey

happy family 

good toast

yummy chicken

red table

Turkey is good food for you.

                                     
                                                                  Tree for Thanksgiving
                                                                       soft chicken breast
                                                                      mashed potatoes is good
                                                                      macaroni crunchy
                                                                      green beans
                                                                     sweet corn
                                                                      quiet family
                                                                Good Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Dinner

Family food

Yummy yogurt

Turkey tabouli

Spaghetti soup

People poor

Tasty milk

Thanksgiving is Beautiful!

The Big Thanksgiving

Healthy turkey

Brown chicken

Chicken breast

Yummy corn

Camel flakes

Chicken corn

Yummy Thanksgiving.

Turkey Day

Good food

Sweet potatoes

Shell macaroni

White potatoes

Happy family

Cold ice cream

Thanksgiving Makes Me Happy!

Funny mom

warm meat

healthy chicken

Green peas

Sweet family

Happy dinner

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving

Yummy turkey

juicy apples

happy family

pepperoni pizza

yellow bananas

chocolate cake

I feel happy!

The Thanksgiving Feast

Pork chops potatoes

Banana bread

Turkey leg

Green beans

Delicious fish

Brown beans

My family likes turkey.

The Chicken Soup

Yummy gumbo

crumbly cornbread

red lobster

pinchy crawfish

smooth shrimp

cooking mom

My family loves food!

Thanksgiving

Delicious turkey

squishy potatoes

yummy chicken

gooey macaroni

surprised mom

normal dad

Happy Thanksgiving!

My Thanksgiving Dinner

Soft mashed potatoes

yummy turkey

salty soup

cheesy lasagna

watery water

yellow mac and cheese

I eat my Thanksgiving Dinner!

Thanksgiving Turkey

fat turkey

yummy potatoes

yellow corn

cuckoo family

cheesy bread

orange macaroni

Happy Thanksgiving

Ice Cream

Chicken nugget

good rice

good fries

good burgers

nice mom

nice dad

Thanksgiving is good.

Thanksgiving

brown chicken

yellow corn

ice cream

loud family

I am happy.

The Nice Thanksgiving Feast

Yummy spaghetti

slimy fish

green beans

spongy bread

hot corn

orange potatoes

I love Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Day

Turkey fun

yummy turkey

mashed potatoes is good

Yazz sad

good chicken

yummy chicken

good ham

Thanksgiving Flowers

talking family

white chicken
orange juice

turkey dress

colorful mom

hard working dad

I am excited of Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving

McDonald's breakfast

cheese macaroni

cold sandwiches

ice cream desset

cold water

good mom

Good Thanksgiving

Good Dinner

hard turkey

soft potatoes

wet gravy

yellow corn

nice family

good cake

pretty clothes

A Thanksgiving Table

Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday! :)

The Road Not Taken

I love poetry! I always have. I love that words put together in a few lines can have this huge deep meaning. I want to share that love with my kiddos. My objectives say that we use the poem we read in our morning reading warmup every week to practice fluency. But my real reason is that I want my students to love the poems and the use of words as much as I do!

We do funny poems like Jack Prelutsky's New Kid on the Block or My Teacher's Not a Zombie. But I also use poetry that I studied in school. One of my favorite poets to introduce to them is Robert Frost. This week we are reading "The Road Not Taken". I read it to them and then explained what it meant. We read it again together today and I asked the kids to make an illustration to show what it meant. I think they got it!

What Principals Are Thankful For....

I was reading Terri's blog: https://engagetheirminds.wordpress.com and I loved her idea for having the students write what teachers were thankful for. I didn't want to copy her outright :) so we changed it to "what are principals thankful for?"-we are using multiple perspectives and still talking about thankfulness. This is what my kiddos came up with:

for our teachers because they are lovely! :)  (I love the illustration with the coffee mug and an apple-is that the quintessential symbol for teaching or what!)

for the school because if we didn't have a school we will not learn how to learn the alphabet.

my grades

for being the boss   

for quiet

School because they like working.

....boots (we are in Texas after all! :)

cars that are sparkly  (well, who isn't thankful for that!)

for so much happy

hmmm.....

                                                         for children and students

new friends

turkeys

turkey and teachers

classes to take care of

for grown-ups who are responsible

Thanksgiving Community Service

Every year I try to do some community service activities with my kiddos. They are really good at making something cute! For Thanksgiving, we make placemats that I then drop off for them to deliver with dinners from Meals on Wheels. I asked them to color a pattern around the outside and then draw something Thanksgiving-y in the middle. I know they are much appreciated. (Did you know they do Meals on Wheels for pets, when I'm better I may have to go volunteer for them!)