Thanksgiving Literacy Centers for Kindergarten | Morning Tubs / Bins

1. Thanksgiving pumpkins letter match: To prepare this activity for use, print the cards, laminate them and then cut them apart. The aim of this activity is for children to match the upper case letter to the lower case letter.
2. Thanksgiving alphabet puzzles: Print, laminate and cut the puzzles into pieces, storing each puzzle in a separate bag. The aim is for children to arrange the puzzle pieces in alphabetical order to reveal the picture. The beginning letter for each puzzle has two stars.
3. Thanksgiving clip the syllables: To prepare this activity for use, print the cards, laminate them and then cut them apart. Household pegs, or other small clipping items such as unused hair clips or paper clips, can be used for this activity. The aim is for children to identify the number of syllables in each word.
4. Thanksgiving turkey clip the beginning sound: Print, laminate and cut out the picture cards. The aim of this activity is for children to correctly identify the beginning sound of each picture and to clip a clothes peg to show their answer. Alternatively, children can use dry-erase markers to color the correct beginning sound.
5. Thanksgiving pumpkin pie middle sound sorting (CVC words): Print, laminate and cut out all the pieces. Attach velcro dots to the pans and the back of each pie piece. The aim of this activity is for children to read the word on each piece of pie and determine the missing middle sound, then sort it to the correct pie pan.
6. Thanksgiving pumpkin and card ending sound sorting (CVC words): Print, laminate and cut out all the pieces. Attach small pegs to the pumpkins so that they can be clipped onto the wagons (optional). The aim of this activity is for children to read the word on each pumpkin and determine the missing ending sound, then sort it to the correct wagon.
7. Thanksgiving turkey spin and rhyme: Print, laminate and cut out all the cards. You will need to supply children with a paper clip and a pencil to make a spinner. Children being by laying out in a row the brown header cards. They spin the pencil spinner on the turkey spinning card and read the word where it stops. Children then find a matching rhyming picture and place it under the brown card it rhymes with. This continues until all the cards have been used up.
8. Thanksgiving write the room: To prepare this activity, print, laminate and cut out all the vocabulary cards. Place the cards randomly around the room. Provide your children with a clip board with the recording page/s. The aim is for children to find the picture cards and write the word next to the matching picture on their recording page.
9. Thanksgiving pre-primer and primer sight word turkey sorting: To prepare this activity for use, print the cards, laminate them and then cut them apart. The aim of this activity is for children to match the sight words written in different fonts to the correct turkey. You can attach velcro dots or small pegs to the feathers.
10. Thanksgiving sentence match: Print the sentence strips and picture cards and then laminate them for durability. Cut along the dotted lines to separate them. The aim is for children to read the sentence and then find the matching picture.

Happy Teaching 🙂