Monday, November 3, 2008

Thanksgiving activities for presschool,kindergarten, fourth and fifth graders

Thanksgiving activities are a must for the kindergarten or the middle schoolers so that they can know actually understand the concepts of what is thanksgiving as well as they can also get to know what is a traditional thanksgiving dinner.

That said there are so many activities that you as a teacher or as a parent can do to help the kid do.

Here is my list of things that you can do

Thanksgiving poems – tell the kids ti learn about the poems related to thanksgiving

Thanksgiving jokes – tell the kids to gather jokes related to thanksgiving and then tell them to also make sure that they understand the original meaning of the jokes.

Thanksgiving crafts – Crafts is all bout letting the children’s creativity to be unleashed. So make sure that the kids learn about turkey, the pilgrims as well as the Native American things with these crafts.

Thanksgiving coloring pages is another activity which can help kids to understand the various characters that are involved in the thanksgiving world be it the turkey, the thanksgiving cornucopia or the thanksgiving pilgrims and also the feast or the dinner.

Thanksgiving games and puzzles – Games and puzzles invigorate the mind and hence the parents and teachers alike should use this media to teach about the thanksgiving origins as well as traditions.

Thanksgiving printables – All over the internet there are so many websites which give information about the thanksgiving pintables as well as free printable namely the puzzles, the worksheets as well as the mazes and the crossword puzzles.

Make sure that you as a family have thanksgiving family readings and activities as that way the whole family is involved as well as you can also make sure to call all neighborhood kids for a family reading. Yes but please make sure that you have only the toddlers with the toddlers and kindergarten school going children with kindergarten kids.

Fourth and fifth graders will need a separate session as they have different requirements from the rest of the kids.

In fact for theses you can have special thanksgiving math activities for the fourth and the fifth graders as they would need much more tough mental exercises than kindergarten kids activities.