First Thanksgiving Unit for Kindergarten and First Grade

Sail on the Mayflower and experience life as a Pilgrim and Wampanoag during this first Thanksgiving unit for kindergarten and first grade! The week-long comprehensive unit includes detailed daily lesson plans with literature suggestions. It incorporates reading, writing, math, history, handwriting, and art. It also has Google Slides to use for discussion and links to videos that complement the unit study.

Click on the PREVIEW to read each lesson plan, see the Week-at-a-Glance planning sheet, as well as examples of printables and art projects.

Teacher Features You’ll Love:

• Detailed daily lesson plans
• Week-at-a-glance planning guide
• Key concepts and objectives
• Extensive literature list
• Video links and QR codes
• 36 Google Slides for discussion
• Activity directions and printable templates

What’s Covered in the Unit?

Day 1: Journey of the Mayflower

• Moving Mayflower craft
• Journey on the Mayflower writing activity

Day 2: Life as a Pilgrim

• Life as a Pilgrim lift-the-flap writing activity

Day 3: Life as a Wampanoag

• Life as a Wampanoag lift-the-flap writing activity
• Woven mat craft
• Flint corn craft

Day 4: The First Thanksgiving

• First Thanksgiving book

Day 5: How We Celebrate Thanksgiving

• My Thanksgiving Meal writing activity
• Stuffed Turkey “I am thankful” Craft
• Turkey applesauce snack

Math Connections:

• Ordering numbers least to greatest
• Counting within 100
• Hundreds chart game
• Place value: tens and ones
• Addition and subtraction within 10 and 20
• Ten frames and making ten
• Counting by 5 and 10
• Comparing numbers with >, <, =
• Graphing
• Time to the hour and half hour
• Comparing lengths
• Word problems

Literacy Connections:

• 21 word wall cards
• Identify upper and lowercase letter C
• Beginning and ending letter sounds
• Read and draw CVC words that begin with P
• Digraphs SH and TH
• Make words with letters in “Thanksgiving”
• Punctuation
• Fixing mixed up sentences
• Identify nouns and verbs
• ABC order
• Pumpkin Pie sight word story
• Recipe for a Perfect Thanksgiving writing prompt
• How to Cook a Turkey writing prompt
• Turkey’s Great Escape writing prompt
• Do You Like to Eat Turkey opinion writing

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