Eat More Hot Dogs!

It's all things Pigeons and Pilgrims in my classroom and 

this week we had some Pigeon fun, Thanksgiving-style!

 My class had a blast with this little

twist on disguise-a-turkey and we made these Pigeon

 persuasive writing booklets from 

The Turkey Wants a Hot Dog! 

Poor Tom Turkey is trying not to get eaten on Thanksgiving!

He's dressed up like a pigeon and trying to convince

families to eat hot dogs instead of turkey for their holiday meal!

These sound like good reasons to me!

 Especially the easy to cook part!

I just updated the file with these additional Pigeon 

publishing pages.  I'm hoping to use our booklets as a prewriting 

activity then have my kiddos write an actual persuasive

writing piece!

If you've previously purchased this little unit on TPT, you can 

get these pages by going to your 'My Purchases' page 

and redownloading the updated file. 

For some crazy reason, every time my kids sing 

Happy Birthday to someone they end it with, 

"Eat more chicken!". Our Halloween birthday kiddos got,

"Eat more candy!". While we were making our Pigeons 

one of my kiddos burst out with "Eat more hot dogs!" 

My entire class dissolved into fits of giggles!  

                      And with that I now have a new screen saver that 
                       pops up every time I turn on our SMARTBoard....

Besides making Pigeons we've been busy learning about
 Plymouth Colony and working hard on our math skills! 

While they work, all of my little Pilgrims are using these!!

I bought feathers from Michael's craft store and used masking tape 

to attach them to the tops of the pencils for my kiddos to use 

during our Thanksgiving unit. They are a HUGE hit!

We're been using my Mayflower Math Centers this week
and those little quills are flying!

Here's how our 'fleet' turned out!

We'll also be using Scholastic's The First Thanksgiving
site for a web quest .

Next week we'll start Mandy Gregory's wonderful
Common Core Thanksgiving Unit!

I can't say enough about this unit!  I used it last year, too 

and Mandy has thought of everything! It even includes

 a day by day lesson plan with examples of 

all of her class charts!  LOVE IT!

Here's one of the charts we did from 

Mandy's unit last year...I used Creative Clips 

cute little Pilgrim rather than taking the time to draw one.

Here's a younger, K-1 version of one of the math centers
we'reusing this week.  The perfect little math station for
your Pilgrim and Pirate units!

You can find The Turkey Wants a Hot Dog! 

 Mayflower Math Centers

and Pilgrims and Pirates Number Puzzles to 20 

all in my TPT shop!