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Looking for new kindergarten Thanksgiving activities? These turkey themed 3 part cards should be part of your November lesson plan to have students learning the number words 1 to 20!
Thanksgiving occupies a unique position in the kindergarten calendar. Halloween is full of costumes and candy and Christmas brings excitement over presents and Santa. Thanksgiving is a buffer between these two that allows your classroom to become focused on gratitude and giving, as well as turkeys! These cute Thanksgiving printables for kindergarten will tap into your classroom theme and keep your students motivated to learn their foundational number skills.
Learning Number Words 1 to 20
These math kindergarten Thanksgiving activities come just at the right time in your student’s mathematical and reading development. Learning the number words 1 to 20 should be part of your November lesson plan even without these cute turkey designs as the students will be ready to associate number words with the numerical format. These turkey themed 3 part cards are a great way to have students match the number and word format, and you can bring all of their reading strategies around listening for the starting letters and short vowel sounds to help them recognize the spelling
Preparing Turkey 3 Part Cards 1 – 20
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The best thing about these Thanksgiving printables for kindergarten is that they are simple to use. Just download, print the full set and cut them out. As with any kindergarten Thanksgiving activities, you should laminate them so that you can come back to them year after year.
Playing Games With Turkey 3 Part Cards 1 – 20
The only downside of Thanksgiving is that it comes at the end of a very long run of weeks of school starting some time around the end of summer. Students (and teachers!) are often exhausted by this stretch of intense learning, so gamifying your math centers will keep things fresh and engaging for you and your students. Try some of these kindergarten Thanksgiving activities with the 3 part cards:
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Mix and match puzzle – the obvious game to play is to create a full set of the right hand side of each pages with the letter and the number words 1 to 20 on different cards. Initially challenge students to match the words and numbers with all the cards face up, and then have them time each other to see how quickly they can complete the challenge.
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Snap/memory – incorporate a bit of turn taking and partner work by turning the above game into a round of snap or memory. For snap, have each player take a set of cards and turn them over in turn until they see a match of letter and number. For memory, lay all the cards out face down and have students take turns turning two over to find a match.
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Movement breaks – Thanksgiving also marks a change towards colder and wetter weather, so you can use these 3 part cards to create a movement break. Simply post the different parts around the room and have your students either collect them in a treasure hunt or move quickly in order as they work out where all the cards are.
Like this? Then you’ll love my 10 Turkey Themed Literacy and Math Centers. These easy-prep games will get your students working on math, literacy and fine motor skills.
Games included:
1) Turkey Ten Frame Matching – Number 1 to 10 included
2) Turkey Number Writing Mats – These mats come with handwriting lines and prewritten numbers that will teach the child how to do it correctly.
3) Turkey in Disguise Shadow Match – This game will help improve the child’s visual discrimination skills while also develop their fine motor movement when using the clips.
4) Turkey Counting Mats to 10 – Give the turkey the correct number of feathers either by drawing, playdough or using real feathers.
5) Turkey Arrange By Size – 6 different turkey characters included, each in 6 different sizes for the child to arrange.
6) Gobble Gobble Turkey Vowel – 40 different cards that you can laminate and have your students fill in the correct missing vowel.
7) Tommy Turkey’s Alphabet Pie – Pick up a letter card and find it on the provided alphabet mats. There are uppercase and lowercase versions included.
8) Turkey Alphabet Matching – Print out and cut the cards in half. Ask the child to match the upper to the lowercase letters. This is great in sensory tubs, as a hunt around the room or just on its own.
9) Turkey Rhyming Clip Cards – Kids will work on rhyming and fine motor at the same time with these 24 cards provided.
10) Turkey Sounds Game – Song poster and letter cards provided. Kids will choose a letter card and can practice saying the sound or you could ask them to name an object that begins with the letter.
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Browse My Most Popular Math Printables:
1) Parking Cars Tracing Lines – More than 10 different tracing line patterns to choose from, all of which help with pencil control.
2) Scarecrow Arrange By Size – 3 different scarecrow-themed image sets that they will arrange from smallest to biggest.
3) Bumblebee Addition Game – Solve the sum and help the bee land on the correct flower!
4) Farm Shapes Mats – Use playdough, pompoms, stickers etc to learn 2D shapes.
5) Popsicle Stick Number Formation – Kids will love forming the numbers 1 to 10 when ice cream and popsicles are involved!
6) Valentines Printable Worksheets Pack – 50 pages of mixed literacy and math activities.
7) Zoo Animals Number Puzzle Strips – Complete these cute puzzles and learn the numbers 1 to 20.
8) Counting Colorful Bugs – This printable book will help kids count to 10 while also learning about color words.
9) Humpty Dumpty Numbers – In this printable game, your students will practice number recognition using 1 dice or simple addition when using 2 dice.
10) Build A Number Santa – Match the number to the correct number word, tally mark and domino to form a Santa Claus
