Celebrate Thanksgiving in kindergarten and first grade classrooms with meaningful, hands-on learning! Explore fun Thanksgiving songs, mini-books, editable games, PowerPoint and Google Slides, and math fluency addition and subtraction centers that build literacy, gratitude, and community.
A Bundle to Celebrate Thanksgiving in Kindergarten and First Grade
Thanksgiving is the perfect opportunity to teach young learners about gratitude, sharing, community, and kindness… all through fun, age-appropriate activities. While the historical origins of Thanksgiving are important, in early elementary grades we focus on the values behind the holiday: thankfulness, helping others, and spending time with family and friends.
This time of year is filled with excitement and anticipation, so keeping learning hands-on, musical, and engaging is key! That’s why I created this Thanksgiving Bundle… a ready-to-go collection of literacy, math, and music resources that make celebrating both fun and educational.
31 Thanksgiving Songs and Poems
Nothing brings a classroom to life like music! This set of 31 festive Thanksgiving songs helps students celebrate the season through rhythm, rhyme, and movement.
- 🎵 Teach concepts like gratitude, friendship, and sharing
- 🎨 Comes in color and blackline for students to illustrate
- 💬 Builds oral language, listening, and phonemic awareness
Sing during morning meeting, transitions, or as part of your Thanksgiving program… it’s an easy way to add joy to your classroom routine!
Thanksgiving Mini-Books with 3 Reading Levels & Illustrated Word Wall
Help your students strengthen reading fluency and comprehension with easy-to-read, Thanksgiving-themed mini-books!
Seasonal vocabulary and a range from simple sentence patterns to more complex sentences.
- 🦃 Reinforce sight words
- 🍁 Encourage retelling and sequencing skills
- ✂️ Perfect for guided reading, take-home books, or literacy centers
Students love coloring, reading, and sharing their books, and teachers love that they’re print-and-go for busy fall days!
Editable Auto-Fill Thanksgiving Games for Sight Words, cvc Words, Letters, Phonemes, Math Facts & More
Make learning festive and flexible with 5 Thanksgiving-themed editable gameboards!
Use them to practice sight words, phonics, letters, math facts, and more.
- 💻 Type your own lists once, and the gameboards will automatically populate
- 🎯 Perfect for centers, small groups, or whole-class review or homework
- 🦃 Great for differentiated practice across levels
These games keep students learning and laughing, turning review time into an exciting holiday-themed challenge!
Thanksgiving PowerPoint and Google Slides Presentations
Simplify your planning with ready-to-use Thanksgiving slideshows for both PowerPoint and Google Slides!
Use them to introduce vocabulary, discuss the meaning of Thanksgiving, or guide morning meeting discussions.
- 🌟 Visual and engaging for early learners
- 🎓 Great for interactive lessons or virtual teaching
- 🍂 Helps reinforce gratitude and community themes
Teachers love how easily these presentations tie the holiday spirit into academic and SEL lessons.
Thanksgiving Addition and Subtraction Activities
Keep math fun and meaningful with hands-on Thanksgiving-themed addition and subtraction practice.
Students match turkey feathers showing math facts to turkeys with the correct sum or difference.
- 🧮 Builds fluency in basic operations
- 🦃 Encourages problem-solving through play
This center is always a hit! Students are engaged, and teachers get rich practice data without worksheets!
Thanksgiving ABC 123 Center: Children sequence capital letters or lowercase letters. Students can also match capital letters to lowercase letters. They also sequence numbers 1-10 or 1-20.
