Book Adaptations for Thanksgiving
Grades: 1-4
Book Adaptations for Thanksgiving
Combine these fun Thanksgiving-themed books with Wixie to inspire and engage your readers and writers.
Balloons Over Broadway
This fun book by Melissa Sweet, tells the story of Tony Sarg, the inventor of the balloons behind the famous Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
After reading the book, ask students to imagine creating their own balloon for the parade. What would it be?
Assign the Balloons Over Broadway activity to have them design and name their balloon.
Combine the pages into one collaborative class book using the Project Wizard and present it as a virtual parade to your students to celebrate their hard work.
Turkey Trouble
After reading this fun story by Wendi Silvano, ask students which of turkey's costumes the thought was the most effective and why. Talk about the setting of the story and how the costumes matched the setting.
Assign the Turkey Disguise activity and ask students to use the paint tools and image options to create a disguise so their turkeys won't be discovered. Ask them to use the Microphone tool to record why the disguise works in the setting they chose.
How to Catch a Turkey
What would your students do if a turkey was on the loose in your school?
After reading Adam Wallace's fun tale, have your students create a how-to guide to catch a turkey, of course, without harming it.
Use the How to Catch a Turkey activity to organize the steps in their process and then use a book template to write the story.
If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620
Place your students in 1620 with Ann McGovern's story about life on the Mayflower and the challenges the pilgrims faced. Explore the questions proposed in the book with your students, like:
- What would you take with you on a long journey?
- How do you think the pilgrims felt moving to a place they didn't know?
- What would you do when you first arrived?
Have students use an Empathy Map to take on the perspective of a pilgrim journeying on the Mayflower.
Because of an Acorn
Use this story, by Adam Schaefer and Lola M. Schaefer, to combine life cycles exploration and personification writing.
After reading this story to students, ask them to use a storyboard template to identify the stages of the life cycle of a pumpkin and what it might think during each stage.
