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Holidays! Well, Thanksgiving is just about here and children are becoming more anxious and excited that Christmas is right around the corner. (Let's not forget to mention the wonderful Starbucks holiday cups for us adults. It's not the holidays without them) :) Love that. Well, the holiday season offers us teachers a giant palette to work with! We have the opportunity to take our eager and excited students and engage them in fun, holiday literacy activities. In my practicum classroom, the students got to partake in a fun literacy writing activity for Thanksgiving. A few weeks back, students were given a plain old, uncolored, turkey cutout. They were to take home their turkey and come back with a "disguised" turkey! There turkey could be anything BUT a turkey! How fun :). You would not believe all the cute and
creative turkeys that came back! Then they wrote a explanation of what their turkey was disguised as. I passed out their turkeys before they began writing and I have never seen them more anxious to begin writing! This elated me! :) The holidays give us so many great opportunities to engage those students who may not be engaged normally. The teacher could have handed out the turkey, told the students to color it and write a story about it....How boring would that have been!? I think students got engaged in this writing activity because they could do anything they wanted with their turkey, make it whatever they could think of, visually represent it, and then write about it. There were no limitations and no restrictions. It was an opportunity for students to think to the stars! :) Nothing is more special than to see a student do so, and smile when they are finished. Now, that is a true gift for the holidays...
Here are some of the wonderful "turkeys"...Enjoy!
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What are some holiday-literacy connections you've seen?
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