We’re back with some Thanksgiving themed brain breaks that we think your class will love. Oh and just like last month, they’re FREE! We created three types of brain breaks: Recharge – these brain breaks are for movement. Use these when you need kids to get the wiggles out! They’re likely to elicit lots of…
Thanksgiving
Favorite Thanksgiving Reads
November has perfect reading weather, don’t you think? So let’s dig into this feast of books! We have lots of books here so I broke it up into categories First up…. The Historical Perspective We celebrate Thanksgiving because of the first Thanksgiving, so it seems like a good place to start our book recommendations. You…
Freebie: Easy as Pie Game
We retired Easy as Pie from our etsy shop and we are now offering it as a free download for you! It's the perfect way to add a little math practice to some Thanksgiving fun next week. Concept: addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts Game Type: board game for 2-4 players Includes: game board, rules, instructions,…
November Writing
After last week's INSANITY (Halloween, torrential rain = inside recess, power outage, field trip) it was a relief to get back to normal today. It gave us the first real chance to try out the November writing prompts. I gathered a bunch of journal ideas from the internet and wrote each one on a leaf. …
Wednesday Words– Synonym Turkeys
The third grade at my school does Synonym Turkeys every year. The students choose a word and write it on the turkeys' bodies. Then they look up their words in the thesaurus and write synonyms on the feathers (sometimes with correct spelling, sometimes without. 🙂 ) My favorite was this one from a horse crazy…