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With Thanksgiving quickly approaching next week, I had one more turkey read-aloud literacy snack idea I wanted to share with you. This week, we’re reading The Very Stuffed Turkey by Katharine Kenah.

In this book, Turkey has five homes to visit — Horse, Pigs, Sheep and Goat’s, Cows, and Mouse’s –Turkey knows there’ll be a ton of food to eat. But there’ll also be friends and their families who can’t wait to celebrate the holiday with Turkey!

Your little learners will enjoy following him along on his adventure from house to house spending time with friends and there’s even a parade at the end!

For our snack this week, we’ll be making Turkey!

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literacy snack idea

each student will need

1 Ritz cracker

2 candy eyes

5 apple slices -approx half of an apple If you sliced the apple a bit thinner you could get 3 or even 4 students’ feathers out of one apple.

And an extra small piece of apple skin to use as the turkey wattle

A small triangle piece of sliced cheese as the beak.

Assemble

Have the students start by laying out their 5 apple slices as the feathers. Place the Ritz cracker at the bottom of the apple slices. Put on the eyeballs. Add the triangle beak and the small slice of apple for the wattle and they’re done!

Free Printable

While your students are enjoying their turkey snack, I made a free printable for them to work on. They will work on their sequencing skills and number the pictures in the correct order of the houses that Turkey visited in the story. They can then color the pictures.

You can download the free printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store by clicking the green box below.

If you’re looking for even more Thanksgiving read-alouds you can find some of our favorites here.

I hope your students enjoy their Turkey snack! See you next time!

Jenette

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Being Thanksful

Teaching our little learners to be thankful is something that is very important to me. I’ve shared some of my favorite books about being thankful here in the past.

And even have a cute free printable I’m Thankful Turkey Hat too that your kiddos can fill out what their thankful for. They can take them home to wear on Thanksgiviing with their family.

This year, I was searching for a new book about being thankful to add to my collection this year, and came across a new book, I Am Thankful.

I Am Thankful is an adorable, rhyming book that follows three different families as they celebrate Thanksgiving with their own traditions, acts of kindness, and ways of giving back. I absolutely loved this book!

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In the back of the book, it gives some great suggestions of how your students can show that they are thankful. They can all be adapted to be done both in the classroom or at home.

Taking a tip from the book, I made a Free Printable I Am Thankful Turkey Placemat so you can easily do it with your class.

Free Printable

For the I Am Thankful Turkey Placemat, you’ll simply start by downloading it at the bottom of this blog post. Print one for each student. They can fill in one thing or a few things that they are thankful for. They can fill it in on the line at the bottom. Or maybe they want to add some more, they have enough room to fill in each of the leaves and turkey with additional things they are thankful for.

Have them color the placemat to finish it up. You can then just send them home with your students. Or you can laminate them so they can be used and wiped like a placemat. Or another fun option is to have them use a glue stick and attach them to a larger piece of colored construction paper and then laminate to make it more of a holiday gift/decoration to send home.

A little twist on an all-time classic turkey handprint. It just isn’t Thanksgiving without one is it?

Click the green box below to download the I Am Thankful Turkey Placemat.

I hope you are able to check out this fantastic new book, it really is a great addition to your class library for November.

See you next time!

Jenette

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Thanksgiving will be here before we know it! I have another fun read-aloud perfect to add to your Thanksgiving book collection. Today, we are reading Peyton Picks the Perfect Pie.

In this book, Peyton is very particular. She doesn’t like it when two foods touch on her plate. Peyton doesn’t like green foods. Or orange foods. Or red foods. Peyton doesn’t like foods that are gooey or gummy, sticky or slimy, frosted or flaky. And Peyton most definitely doesn’t like chunky or lumpy foods. She decides that this Thanksgiving, she is going to try one new food, and decides that it will be pie. But there are sooo many pies to choose from, which one will it be?

The illustrations in this book are fantastic, all of the guests are diverse and the spirit of the dinner is happy and spirited. The book is a celebration of food, family, and community and being open to trying new things.

For this weeks snack to go along with the book, we’re having pie!

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Snack Idea -Thanksgiving Pie

In the book there is a wonderful recipe for apple pie if you’d like to make that. To keep it simple for the classroom, we used small individual pies that you can find in the bakery section at Walmart. They are $.50 each so it works out to be a doable cost. We chose 2 pies for each student to taste. They have all different types of flavors of pies to choose from so it’s easy to enocrage the students to try one of the pies that they haven’t tasted before. If you’re giving tastes of the pies, you can easily split each pie for 3-4 kiddos.

Free Printable

I made a free printable for the kiddos to work on while they are enjoying their taste testing of pies too. They get to draw in their favorite foods they have on Thanksgiving, and then also draw in one new food they would want to try this year.

You can download the free printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store by clicking the green box below.

I have another fun activity that I’ve shared in the past that you can do along side this book too. Instead of trying different pies, the whole class could do a taste test to see if they like pumpkin pie or not. You can grab the free printable activities here.

And here’s few more fun activities that go well with the book too.

See you next time!

Jenette

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Thanksgiving is a great time to talk about character traits and tying it all into being thankful and grateful. I have the perfect book to help with teaching character traits to little ones this time of year. This week, we’re reading for our Literacy Snack Idea Cranberries read-aloud, we’re reading Cranberry Thanksgiving, by Wende Devlin.

Every year Grandmother invited a guest for Thanksgiving dinner and allowed Maggie to do the same. “Ask someone poor or lonely,” she always said. Thanksgiving was Grandmother’s favorite day of the year. The cooking was done and her famous cranberry bread was cooling on a wooden board. But she wasn’t happy to find out Maggie had invited Mr. Whiskers to dinner. Would her secret cranberry bread recipe be safe with him in the house? 

This book has so many great lessons in it. From a good reminder to the adults that not everything has to be perfect to invite people over to teaching the kids not to judge someone on looks and to give everyone a chance.

So for this week’s snack, we’re of course having Grandmother’s famous cranberry bread.

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Snack Idea

Below is the recipe from the back of the book. Make 2 loaves (double the recipe) for your class. You can tell them one is for them and one is for Mr. Whiskers! If you do not want to or have time to actually make the bread, by all means, stop by the grocery store and pick up a couple of loaves from there!

Grandmother’s Famous Cranberry Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 cup butter, very cold
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
• 1 tsp grated orange peel
• 3/4 cup orange juice
• 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries, chopped
• 1 1/2 cups light raisins

If you choose, you may substitute cranberries for the raisins to have all cranberry bread. -This is what I did.

Preparation

1. Butter or lightly spray a 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan.
2. Sift together into large bowl flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
3. Slice butter into 1/4 inch cubes; Cut butter into flour mixture until it is crumbly.
4. Add egg, orange peel, and orange juice; stir briefly until just mixed.
5. Gently fold in cranberries, and walnuts, and/or raisins, if desired.
6. Bake at 350F for 1hr and 10 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.
7. Remove from the pan, and cool on a wire rack.

Yield

Makes one loaf.

Free Printable

While the kiddos are enjoying their cranberry bread, I made a free printable for them to work on. They will get to reflect on what lesson they learned from the story and draw a picture of Grandmother’s famous cranberry bread.

You can download the free printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store below.

Do you have any other fun activities you like to do with this book? Share with us on our Facebook page or in the comments below.

Thanks for stopping by!

Jenette

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Does anyone else LOVE Thanksgiving as I do? Don’t get me wrong, I’m super excited for Christmas and am totally already listening to Christmas music, but I also love celebrating Thanksgiving. I think it’s so important to teach our little ones about being thankful and grateful for what we have.

Today I’m sharing these adorable free printable thankful turkey hats, perfect for your Thanksgiving feast or lunch at school or even to send home for your students to wear on Thanksgiving with their families.

Sometimes it’s hard for your little learners to understand what it means to be thankful or show gratitude for things. Here are some of our favorite tools to help.

Videos and Songs About Being Thankful

What Does It Mean To Be Thankful? by
TheBackyardMenagerie

This is a cute little video that helps show little learners what it means to be thankful.

Thankful by The Juicebox Jukebox

And this is a great song about all of the things we have to be thankful. It has some larger vocabulary words too it uses like appreciate and compassionate that would be great to go over with the kiddos.

Let’s Give Thanks by Zebra Nursery Rhymes

This is another cute little song that shares a bunch of things we can be thankful for.

Thankful Read Alouds

Here are some of our favorite read-aloud all about being thankful and showing gratitude.

Thanksgiving Is For Giving Thanks by Margaret Sutherland

This book has colorful illustrations along with simple text to share what they are thankful for. Family, friends, and the holiday that brings them all together.

Little Squirrel’s Tale About Being Thankful by  Trace Moroney – I ordered this one from Scholastic

This is a cute story about the little squirrel feeling sad, so his mom sends him on a walk to deliver acorn cookies to his gram. She asks him to think about all of the things he’s thankful for on the way.

Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Marker

This book is one of my favorites. It reminds us of all of the things we have to be thankful for and the illustrations are fantastic. I feel like I find something new each time we read it.

Little Critter Being Thankful by Mercer Mayer

We always love Little Critter books and this is another great addition. It teaches gratitude in a simple way. It gives ideas you can talk about to do with the children to remind them to be grateful.

Bear Says Thanks by Karma Wilson

In this book, bear wants to invite his friends to his cave, but when he looks in his cupboard, he discovers that it is empty. Each of his friends brings something to his cave and the bear is sad because he has nothing to offer them. They reassure him that he has stories that he can tell them and that they are happy to be with him. This is a great lesson about the nature of friendship and the concept of thankfulness.

Free Printable Thankful Turkey Hat

And now that we’ve shared how to be thankful to our little ones, it’s time for our fun thankful turkey hat. Simply Print out the hat and have them color the front. There are 3 different options for the back strap. A blank one to have them draw what they are thankful for, and 2 different lined ones to use whichever fits your students the best.

If you need to make the hat larger simply print an additional page or attach a sentence strip.

Click the green box to download the free printable thankful turkey hat.

If you’re looking for even more ways to keep the conversation going on being thankful, I share a fun thankful tree craft here that also incorporates math into it.

Are there any other ways you like to teach your little ones about being thankful? Share with us below!

See you next time!

Jenette

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One of my most favorite Thanksgiving traditions with my family is watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade together. I host Thanksgiving but make sure everything is ready and prepped to go, turkeys in the oven etc, so I can spend this awesome time with my family. The book that we’re reading this weeks Literacy Snack Parade Balloons Read-Aloud is Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.

This book is the true story of the puppeteer of Macy’s parade. In the book you meet Tony Sarg, puppeteer extraordinaire! It tells the story of the puppeteer Tony Sarg, capturing his genius, his dedication, his zest for play, and his long-lasting gift to America—the inspired helium balloons that would become the trademark of Macy’s Parade.

In the story, you learn that they used to have live animals in the parade but young children started getting scared so eventually he created the balloons which at first were all animals. So this week, we’ll be making our own animal balloon snack.

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Ingredients

For each student you’ll need

3 animals cookies–crackers

1 pulled apart piece of a Twizzler Pull-n-Peel

Assemble

Have the students pull apart their twizzler piece into 3 different pieces to use as 3 different balloon strings. Give each student 3 cookies or crackers. The students can lay the twizzlers down coming from the bottom of the animals as pretend balloon strings.

Free Printable

While your kiddos are enjoying their snack, I made a free printable for them to work on. They get to draw in their favorite balloons during the Macy’s Parade. The could be ones they saw in the book or ones they’ve seen on tv at home.

You can download the Literacy Snack Parade Balloons Read-Aloud free printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store below.

I also have a fun scavenger hunt for your students to do while watching the parade with their families on Thanksgiving. You can find the digital version here and the printable version here.

Do you watch the Thanksgiving day parade at your house?

Thanks for stopping by!

Jenette

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Can I share a secret with you? I don’t really like cake. For my birthday (in December) when I was young, I used to ask my mom for a pumpkin pie instead of a cake. It’s my favorite! So every year I blew out my candles in a pumpkin pie. Today I’m sharing with you how you can make your very own pumpkin pie in a cup in the classroom this month with your kiddos.

The best way I have found to make the pumpkin pie in a cup in the classroom, is to break the students up into groups of five, or less. If you do it this way, each group will be small enough for each person to get a turn to help make the pumpkin pie filling and see how it’s actually being made.

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Ingredients and supplies needed

graham cracker crumbs – mine was a 15oz container, enough for the whole class

box of vanilla instant pudding mix – each box will make enough for 5 students so adjust the number of boxes you need to students in your class

1/2 cup of canned pumpkin – you want to get 2 15oz cans if you have a class of 25+

milk to make the pudding with

whipped cream

pumpkin pie spice

small plastic cup

plastic spoons

measuring spoons and cups

can opener

prep work

You’ll need to make the instant pudding either the night before or the morning of the day you’ll be making the pumpkin pie in a cup. Depending on how much time you’ll have in class, have the pudding ready to go in bowls each package made so you know how many kids cups it’ll make.

Or if you have a little more time in class, you could make the instant pudding with them. It doesn’t take long, you’ll just need the instant pudding mix, milk and a bottle/jar with a lid that it’ll fit in. You could pass the jar around and have each one of the students help shake the jar to make the pudding.

Or another option is to skip making your own pudding and buy pudding cups from the store.

Instructions

Once you have your first group of 5 students, you’re ready to go. Start by sharing the pudding you’ve made and have a student help stir it for you. Have one student help measure out 1/2 cup of canned pumpkin into the bowl.

Have another student mix the pumpkin into the pudding. Next, have another student measure out 1/2 teaspoon of the pumpkin pie spice and pour it into the bowl. Have another student mix it in. Now your filling is ready.

To assemble

Give each student a cup and a spoon. Taking turns, they can each scoop 1 tablespoon of the graham cracker crumbs into their cup.

Next, they will each fill-up the 1/2 cup measuring cup and carefully spoon/pour it into their cup on top of the crumbs.

Last, they will add some whipped cream to the top and time to eat!

This cooking class how to make pumpkin pie is a great addition to share with the kids how to make a real pumpkin pie. It’s a fun and engaging addition to tie the whole lesson together.

And we also have this fun FREE pumpkin pie taste test you could do after everyone eats their pumpkin pie in a cup.

And if you need ever more pumpkin pie like I do, we have these adorable pumpkin pie counting mats that the kids can use cotton balls as whipped cream to practice their counting.

Do you have any fun ideas to do with pumpkin pie?

See you next time!

Jenette

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November is a great time to teach about corn. There are so many fun things you can do, from tying it to the Native Americans to turning it into a science experiment and growing sprouts from a cob. There are so many amazing facts about corn and things they are able to make from it, I feel like I learn something new every time we go over it. So for this week’s Literacy Snack Idea Popcorn, we’re reading The Popcorn Book by Tomie de Paola.

This is a fun book with almost 2 stories in one. Twin brothers go through the process of making popcorn all while one of them reads different facts and legends about popcorn.

So of course for this week’s snack, we’re having popcorn.

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Snack Idea

There are a few different ways you could do popcorn for your class. Go super easy and buy pre-popped popcorn from the store, Costco has a great big bag that’s yummy. Or bring in microwave popcorn so the kids can hear it popping. Or ideally, make air-popped popcorn in an air popper. That way the kids can see and investigate the unpeopled kernels like they see in the book and then get to see the change that happens while popping. If by chance you have access to a stove at school that would be an awesome way for the kids to see it pop too.

Free Printable

While the kids are enjoying their popcorn snack, I made a free printable for them to work on. They will get to draw a picture in each popcorn piece to show 3 things they learned about popcorn from the book.

And if you are looking to take it even further your class will love our Cooking Class How To Make Popcorn.

You can download the Literacy Snack Idea Popcorn free printable from my TeachersPayTeachers store below.

Do you have any other fun activities you do to teach about corn?

More popcorn ideas for you. Real and nonsense word sort and counting practice to 20 with popcorn.

Thanks for stopping by!

Jenette

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Are your little learners working on their beginning sounds? I have a fun Gobble Gobble A Beginning Sounds Game for you today to help them practice those letter sounds!

I’ve been playing this game with my own kids for many years and now get to play it with my nephews on Thanksgiving. We all sit around after eating our yummy Thanksgiving dinner, some people looking at the ads and getting their Black Friday shopping lists ready, some cleaning up and I get to play this fun game with the kiddos!

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the setup

To play the game, all you need to do is download the printable at the bottom of the post. Cut out all of the squares and laminate so you can play the game over and over again. You will also need some kind of container to put the cards in. I used a basket I had in my decoration stash, but you can use anything you have on hand.

to play

This game can be played with one student or many. You will put all of the cards into the container and shake them up. Have a student pull out a card, look at the letter, and say the sound it makes. If playing alone, choose another card and repeat. If playing with other students move to the next person to take a turn.

There are also some cards that say, Gobble! Gobble! If a student chooses a Gobble Gobble! card, they gobble like a turkey and put all of their letters back in the container and it’s the next players’ turn or they can start over again if playing alone.

There are both uppercase and lowercase letters. You can choose to use them both or just one set, the game will work the same either way.

My little friends love playing this game so much and get so into saying gobble gobble like a turkey. They hope to pull those cards!

You can download the Gobble Gobble A Beginning Sounds Game below. 

If you’re looking for more beginning sound activities, we share all of our favorites in this blog post here.

Do you have any other fun games you like to play to practice beginning sounds?

Thanks for stopping by!

jenette

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With Thanksgiving quicking approaching, we just have to read a story about a turkey! For this week’s literacy snack idea, we’re reading, How To Catch A Turkey, by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton.

It’s a cute book about a turkey that doesn’t realize he’s about to be in the Thanksgiving school play and decides to run away. The whole school attempts to catch him and he ends up back on stage having a blast.

For our snack today, we’re making a turkey!

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Ingredients

Each student will need

1 Oreo cookie

1 candy corn

2 small candy eyeballs

9-10 pretzel sticks

Assemble

To make the turkey, have the students carefully twist their cookie just a bit to loosen the 2 sides. Next, have them place in their pretzel sticks in between the two cookie sides into the cream filling. It’s easiest for them to do this when it’s laying down. Last, have the students put on the candy eyes and candy corn beak. Cute and easy little turkey!

While the students are enjoying their turkey snack, I made a free printable for them to work on. They get to write and draw a picture about how they would catch a turkey.

Click the green box below to download the Literacy Snack Catch A Turkey Read-Aloud free printable from my tTpT store.

If you looking for some more fun turkey ideas over the next couple of weeks, this Cooking Class How To Make A Turkey is a fun one! Cooking class is a fun way to incorporate many different learning standards. In this pack, the students are learning writing, sequencing, retelling, life skills and much more. It’s a great hands-on activity to get the students excited to learn.

Or making a turkey craft is always a favorite with different writing prompts you can choose from.

And if you’re looking for more fun Thanksgiving book ideas, I share all of my favorite picks here.

I hope your students enjoy this Literacy Snack Catch A Turkey Read-Aloud and their turkey snacks this week!

See you next time!

Jenette

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As our Thanksgiving break approaches the kids start to get antsy as we all know. This is a fun activity I like to save for our last day before break. It’s one of my most favorite activities because I LOVE pumpkin pie myself. I may or may not have already bought and eaten (with the families help) at least 3 pies this season. Keep reading to grab the Free Printable Pumpkin Pie Taste Test.

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I have a favorite book that I like to read to start us off. We read I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie, by Alison Jackson.

“I know an old lady who swallowed a pie, a Thanksgiving pie, which was really too dry.

And with that, the feast begins! After the pie, the old lady swallows a whole squash, all of the salad, and the entire turkey! As Mother and Father watch in shock, the two children are delighted to see the old lady growing fatter and fatter. And, in the end, the old lady makes a surprising and humorous contribution to the holiday festivities.”

For the pumpkin pie tasting, I buy one of the big pies from Costco. It’s perfect for the entire class to have a taste. We start off by describing the pie.

Then we move onto the best part, the taste test! Have the students all try a bite of their pie and decide if they like it or not. Then they will ask their classmates if they like it or not and fill out their graph accordingly. It’s such a fun way to incorporate writing and math into the holiday.

Hopefully, this helps keep your kids engaged during those final few days or hours before Thanksgiving break!

Click the green box below to download the Free Printable Pumpkin Pie Taste Test.

If you’re looking for more fun pumpkin pie activities,  you might like our cooking class how to make pumpkin pie.

And I also share in this blog post, how to make pumpkin pie in a cup. It’s super yummy too!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jenette

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We’ve been learning about turkey’s and thought this book would tie in fun for Thanksgiving.  For this weeks Literacy Snack, we’re reading Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano.

Turkey is in trouble. Bad trouble. The kind of trouble where it’s almost Thanksgiving . . . and you’re the main
course. But Turkey has an idea–what if he doesn’t look like a turkey? What if he looks like another animal instead?
After many hilarious attempts, Turkey comes up with the perfect disguise to make this Thanksgiving the best ever!

In the end of the book, the turkey’s final costume wasn’t bad, he was a pizza delivery guy and the family had pizza for Thanksgiving dinner. For our snack this week we’re making pizza!

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Ingredients

Each student will need

1/2 of an english muffin

1 tbsp of pizza sauce

small handful of shredded mozzarella cheese

Assemble

These pizzas are one of my own kids favorite’s so I thought they’d be perfect for the students to make. Very simple. Just have the students spread the pizza sauce on the english muffin and add on the cheese. You can add additional toppings if you’d like. We just eat them this way, no oven needed. It’s almost like the pizza’s that kids make in those Lunchables. A silly snack to have pizza instead of Thanksgiving dinner.

While the students are enjoying their snack, I made a printable they can work on. They will get to disguise the turkey in the costume they think would be best for him.

You can download the Literacy Snack Idea Turkey free printable here.

Hope you students enjoy this fun twist on Thanksgiving dinner!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jenette

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Thanksgiving books are some of my favorites. In November we focus on being thankful, showing gratitude, traditions, and manners. Throw in a little turkey fun and we call it good! These are my picks for The Best Thanksgiving Read-Alouds.

I also have a bunch of literacy snack ideas and free printables to go along with a lot of these books for make sure to check those out too!

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Thanksgiving Rules

In this humorous book, Percy knows just what to do to get the most out of this delicious holiday. And so will you if you follow his ten simple rules!

The Thanksgiving Bowl

After the Grandma reads the “I’m thankful” lists, the bowl is forgotten about and blows away. Miraculously, the bowl’s year long journey of being continuously lost and found comes full circle as it arrives back in Grandma Grace’s yard just in time for Thanksgiving.

Turkey Trouble

In this humorous book, the turkey is in bad trouble. The kind of trouble where it’s almost Thanksgiving…and you’re the main course. After many hilarious attempts, Turkey comes up with the perfect disguise to make this Thanksgiving the best ever!

I have a Literacy Snack to go along with the book Turkey Trouble too. You can see more about that here.

Bear Says Thanks

What better way for Bear to say thanks than to have a big dinner with all of his friends!

One is a Feast for Mouse

  This warm and humorous book gently reminds us to give thanks for the little things.

How To Catch A Turkey

A turkey is running loose in a school right before a Thanksgiving play. Follow along as students turn their school upside down trying to catch the turkey, ending with a twist that ensures no turkeys are harmed (or eaten!). 

I have a literacy snack and free printable to go along with this book too! You can get the snack details and grab the free printable to go along with the book here.

Thanksgiving Day Thanks

A charming story about the traditions that make Thanksgiving special.

Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving

A take on the classic, this tall-tailed tall tale tells how eight children on a field trip share in a Thanksgiving all can remember vividly.

Peyton Picks the Perfect Pie

Peyton is very particular. She doesn’t like it when two foods touch on her plate. She decides that this Thanksgiving she is going to try one new food, and decides that it will be pie. But there are sooo many pies to choose from which one will it be?

I have a fun literacy snack to go along with this book too! You can get the details of the snack idea and grab the free printable to go along with the book here.

The Night Before Thanksgiving

This story combines the hectic pace of preparation with all the familiar elements of the big day. It promotes togetherness as a family and includes a pause to give thanks for what they have.

Thanks for Thanksgiving

A charming story about the traditions that make Thanksgiving special.

Over the River A Turkey’s Tale

The author adds heaps of holiday humor to the classic Thanksgiving song. You’ll be wondering who’s going to gobble up whom until the dessert finale.

Balloons Over Broadway

This book is the true story of the puppeteer of Macy’s parade. In the book you meet Tony Sarg, puppeteer extraordinaire! It tells the story of the puppeteer Tony Sarg, capturing his genius, his dedication, his zest for play, and his long-lasting gift to America—the inspired helium balloons that would become the trademark of Macy’s Parade.

And here’s a fun literacy snack to go along with this book too. You can get the snack details and the free printable to go along with the book here.

A Plump and Perky Turkey

This is a great rhyming book. This story teaches kids to be thankful even though they don’t always get what they want.

Cranberry Thanksgiving

This book has so many great lessons in it. From a good reminder to the adults that not everything has to be perfect to invite people over to teaching the kids not to judge someone on looks and to give everyone a chance.

I have a fun literacy snack to go along with this book too. You can get the details of the snack idea and grab the free printable to go along with the book here.

The Very Stuffed Turkey

In this book, Turkey has five homes to visit — Horse, Pigs, Sheep and Goat’s, Cows, and Mouse’s –Turkey knows there’ll be a ton of food to eat. But there’ll also be friends and their families who can’t wait to celebrate the holiday with Turkey!

And there’s a literacy snack to go along with this book too! Get the snack details and grab the free printable to go along with the book here.

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

When Peppermint Patty invites herself (and most of her friends) to Charlie Brown’s house for Thanksgiving dinner, Charlie Brown reluctantly agrees to make a holiday feast even though he can barely make toast and cold cereal! Can he pull together a memorable meal, or will he and his friends just be grateful when it’s over.

And of course I have a literacy snack to go along with this one too! Get the snack details and free printable to go along with the book here.

Whew, that’s a lot of great books! Do you have any other picks to add to The Best Thanksgiving Read-Alouds.?

See you next time!

Jenette

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