Large Group Activity
Date: November Week 4
Title: Thanksgiving
Phoneme: /t/
Pre-Literacy: Trace
the Letter T. “Top to Bottom. Now Back to the Top. Left to Right and now we STOP.” Talk about words that have the /t/
sound. Tongue, Teeth, Toes, Turkey,
Tomato. Tickle, Two. Does anyone have a name with the /t/ sound?
Materials required: Laminated
Letter T, Gobble Gobble picture binder
Concepts: What is
food and what is not food. What is good
to eat. Trying new foods
Transition activity: Song: Gobble Gobble (What Does The Turkey Say) by
Nooshi.
Discussion: Thanksgiving is a time where we eat a special
meal.
Let’s talk about what is yummy and what we shouldn’t eat. We're reading the book Yummy Yucky by Leslie Patricelli and talking about what is good to eat and what we shouldn't eat. Then we will segue to Thanksgiving foods and find out what the children like to eat and what they don't like. Thumbs up if you like the food - thumbs down if you don't. Guess what? Miss Heather doesn't like potatoes of any kind (she gave a thumbs down)! Miss Suzanne likes sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top (thumbs up!). Miss Carrie doesn't like marshmallows on her sweet potatoes (thumbs down!)
We looked at pictures of turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing/dressing, cranberry sauce, grapes, hot rolls, sweet potatoes, green beans with almonds, pumpkin pie, cherry pie, and a plate loaded with all of these foods for Thanksgiving.
Ask the
children what they are excited to eat at Thanksgiving.
