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This Kindergarten lesson plan focuses on Thanksgiving and being thankful. The standards addressed include determining central ideas in a text and asking and answering questions about key details. The central focus is that Thanksgiving is about giving thanks for things in one's life. The learning objectives are for students to express what they are thankful for verbally and in writing. Activities include reading a book about Thanksgiving and having students share what they are thankful for using popcorn kernels, then writing what they are thankful for on a coloring page.

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This Kindergarten lesson plan focuses on Thanksgiving and being thankful. The standards addressed include determining central ideas in a text and asking and answering questions about key details. The central focus is that Thanksgiving is about giving thanks for things in one's life. The learning objectives are for students to express what they are thankful for verbally and in writing. Activities include reading a book about Thanksgiving and having students share what they are thankful for using popcorn kernels, then writing what they are thankful for on a coloring page.

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Lesson plan 11-14-14

Megan Drew Grade: Kindergarten Lesson duration: 60 min


Topic/Title of lesson: Thankful during Thanksgiving

VISION-SETTING: KNOW, SO, SHOW


STANDARD(s) NJSLSA.R2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and
ADDRESSED ideas.
RL.K.1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text (e.g., who, what, where, when, why,
how).
CENTRAL FOCUS Thanksgiving is a holiday that is focused on giving thanks for the things in your life. This lesson focuses on learning what it
(CF) means to be thankful and what a student is thankful for in their life.
EU/EQ What is Thanksgiving?
What activities do you participate in on Thanksgiving?
What does it mean to be thankful?
LEARNING Students will be able to express what they are thankful for via verbal and written form.
OBJECTIVES
ASSESSMENT Formative Assessment – Popcorn kernel thankful share
STRATEGY Summative Assessment – Writing what they are thankful for on the coloring page.
ACADEMIC Thankful, Thanksgiving
VOCABULARY
PRIOR The students might have celebrated Thanksgiving with the family.
KNOWLEDGE AND
CONCEPTIONS

MATERIALS, RESOURCES, and INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY


What resources and technology do you need to teach the lesson: What materials, technology will students need?
Thanksgiving by Laura Alden, popcorn kernels, coloring page. Pencil boxes, coloring page

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES


(Describe explicitly what the teacher and the students will do to meet learning outcomes. Use bulleted or numbered list)
LAUNCH/ 1. What is Thanksgiving?
Beginning (10 mins) 2. What activities do you participate in on Thanksgiving?
3. What does it mean to be thankful?
LEARNING 1. Read Thanksgiving by Laura Alden and ask questions.
ACTIVITIES/ a. Where’s the turkey on these pages? On the fridge

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b. What is the Mom holding? Turkey
c. What are the corn kernels used for? To say what you're thankful for.
d. What color is the corn? Pink
e. What color is corn usually? Yellow
f. Can you guess who these new people are? Grandma and Grandpa
g. How many corn kernels do they have? 5
h. What are the corn kernels used for?
2. Give each student a popcorn kernel and have them go around the class and say what they are thankful
for.
CLOSURE/ 1. Coloring page and write what they are thankful for on the page.
End (10 mins)

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