Thanksgiving Language Arts Printables

October 26, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

There are lots of great language arts printables with a Thanksgiving theme, including lots of little books, writing activities and more. Let’s check out some Thanksgiving themed learning for the classroom or at home.

Fun a Day has a cute printable emergent reader Thanksgiving book (find more fall emergent readers books here), which features a turkey and different color words, so kids can color the bird appropriately on each page.

Printablee has a collection of 10 different printable Thanksgiving stories for different grade levels, and A Little Pinch of Perfect has a short printable book with pilgrims and Native Americans that could be the beginning of telling the Thanksgiving story.

Kindergarten Smarts has a printable sight word book with a holiday twist. There are a few different variations on the book for different readers, and you can get them from her Teachers Pay Teachers site.

Get printable Thanksgiving themed writing prompts with a coloring element at 123 Homeschool 4 Me. These pages include things like what kids would do if they had a pet turkey at Thanksgiving, what they know about the pilgrims and their favorite Thanksgiving foods. This reminds me of an activity the first or second graders always do at my daughter’s school, where they imagine a turkey has to disguise itself to avoid being eaten, then they draw it and write about it.

The Keeper of the Memories has fun color by sight word printables with a turkey, pie and cornucopia on them so kids can practice basic words while they color.

The Thanksgiving word search from PJs and Paint would be better for kids who’ve moved beyond emergent reading since it has several long words, but for kids who love word searches this is a good one.

Looking for more Thanksgiving learning activities? Check out my collection of Thanksgiving math activities.

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Learning about Snow

Not all of us live where there is a lot of snow in the winter (or even where it is winter as I write this, but it can still be fun to learn about snow, what it is and why it falls, so let’s get into it!

First, let’s talk snowflake science with The Homeschool Scientist. They have a free prinatble snowflake science less that’s more than 60 pages long and good for multiple grade levels. The blog post linked here includes some fun snow facts, information about how snowflakes form and why they are both six-sided and (probably) all different.

Expressive Monkey has a great post about how snowflakes are formed and why they have six arms, and also shows some of the pictures taken by W. A. Bentley in the 1920s (more on him below).

You can also grab a free snow facts worksheet with space for kids to draw their own unique snowflakes from Education.com. Simple Living Creative Learning also has a paid snow study resource set that includes things like different types of snowflakes, the snow cycle, symmetry drawing with snowflakes, tips for snow safety, snow-related vocabulary and more.

Homeschool Superfreak has another great page for learning about snowflakes, which includes information about Snowflake Bentley, a great book to read (and person to learn about). It includes lesson plan ideas and links to activities.

Speaking of activities, if you happen to have snow around you can make snow ice cream or maple candy, paint on snow or with snow, or do some snow science experiments. If you get a ton of snow you could maybe even build an igloo or snow structure.

If you don’t get snow you can learn about how animals keep warm in the snow and cold temperatures with this experiment from I Can Teach My Child. Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls can help you learn why big paws (or snowshoes) make it easier to walk in the snow. Or make a snowstorm in a jar like this one from MomBrite.

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