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It is time once again for Poppins Book Nook and this month’s theme is animals! Feel free to join in the fun with the linky at the end.
Of course the animal on my kiddos’ minds this month is the turkey. We moved far away from family this summer, and this is the first year that we have ever made an entire Thanksgiving meal. We compared weights and prices searching for the perfect bird. We calculated how long it needed to thaw, and then we hunted down a delicious brine recipe.
One of our favorite Thanksgiving books is A Turkey for Thanksgiving, a sweet story about a turkey who gets invited over for Thanksgiving dinner but is afraid of being the main course.
Because life has been busy this month, I decided to round up some great turkey activities instead of create one:
These are some more of our favorite turkey books:
A Plump and Perky Turkey: The residents of Squawk Valley think they can outsmart the turkeys, but one proves to be too clever.
Amelia Bedelia Talks Turkey: You can just imagine the craziness that surrounds Amelia Bedelia when she helps with the Thanksgiving play.
This is the Turkey: A humorous tale told in the style of ‘This is the House That Jack Built”.
Each month the Poppins Book Nook members will be hosting a book giveaway. This month it is for this beautiful National Geographic Animal Encyclopedia. The giveaway is open to US residents only and ends December 17th.
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Take a look at what the other Poppins Book Nook bloggers are up to this month:
Enchanted Homeschooling Mom – 3 Dinosaurs – Monsters Ed – Chestnut Grove Academy – Growing in God’s Grace – Royal Little Lambs – Life with Moore Babies – Teach Beside Me – The Usual Mayhem – Fantastic Fun and Learning – Kathys Cluttered Mind – Toddler Approved – Growing Book by Book – Adventures in Mommydom – Edventures with Kids – Learning & Growing the Piwi way – A Gluten Free Journey – Preschool Powol Packets – To The Moon and Back – Our Craft ~N~ Things – Fresh Farm Adventures – Are We There Yet? – Afterschool for Smarty Pants – Hopkins Homeschool
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Welcome to Funschool, a weekly list of FREE educational lesson plans and printables built around a seasonal theme. This week’s theme is Thankfulness – Give Thanks to the Lord!
Recording Gratitude my guest post of ideas
Cultivating Thankful Hearts unit study
A History of Thankfulness unit study
Give Thanks to God copywork
Give Thanks copywork
Attitude of Gratitude copywork
Thanksgiving Bible Study for the family
Verses for Thanksgiving printables & activities
Remembering to Give Thanks memory verse cards
27 Days of Thanksfulness printable pack
The ABCs of Thanksgiving printable book
Thankful Tree printable
Color God’s Word coloring pages
Give Thanks Sampler marker-point craft
Thanksgiving Bible Crafts preschool printables
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I took one of our favorite Thanksgiving books, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie, and turned it into a fun math lesson. We decided to add up all the food at the Old Lady’s Thanksgiving dinner!
First, we read through the book and made a list of the dishes. I let the kids decide how they wanted to measure each food. Whole pies or slices? Turkey by the piece or the pound? We used the grocery ads and a couple of websites to figure out things like how many pounds are in an average-sized frozen turkey, and how many servings are in a cake.
After all of our measurement tools were determined, we multiplied the unit of measurement times the number of times the food was mentioned in the book.
These are the ways they chose to measure the food:
pie = 8 slices
cider = 1 gallon
roll = 2 1/2 inches
squash = 6 lbs (they weighed the ornamental one from the porch)
salad = 2 bags
turkey = 15 lbs
pot = 10 quarts
cake = 291 servings (several different-sized tiers)
bread = 22 slices (1 loaf)
I created a FREE printable that you can use for this lesson!
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Welcome to Funschool, a weekly list of FREE educational lesson plans and printables built around a seasonal theme!
This week’s theme is pie.
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I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie activities & printables
The Old Lady’s Thanksgiving Dinner math activity
Perfect Pies file folder game
Apple Pie Math printable
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World Five in a Row unit
How to Make a Cherry Pie and See the U.S.A. unit
The Apple Pie Tree lapbook
Apple Pie Sensory Bin instructions
We love this book!
Alligator Pie rhyming
Pumpkin Pie for All alter the recipe
Playing Fraction Pie music lesson
Pumpkin Pie Counting math center
Enemy Pie lesson plans
American Pie cultural art project
Pumpkin Pie handwriting sheet
P is for Pie coloring
Blackbird Pie craft
Thankful Pie craft
Cherry Pie Play Dough Mat printable
Apple Pie Play Dough recipe
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