Butter, Pilgrims and Turkey Time Freebies!!

    Butter! Butter!! Butter!!!  Yes, that's right...butter!  We've been doing some fun things in Kindergarten the last couple of weeks and butter was one of those things!  We've been talking about the Pilgrims and charting present and past (I forgot a pic of our chart :(  .  However, making butter is a great science project to do at this time of the year.  You need 3 things: 1. a small container of heaving whipping cream  2.  a mason jar  3.  excited students.   We read The First Thanksgiving and charted past and present.  It always amazes little ones that they just didn't go to the store.  So, to illustrate this we make homemade butter in our room.  I do explain that this is not exactly how the Pilgrims did it but it's a good illustration.  Pour your heavy whipping cream into the mason jar.  Let students note how the cream is a thick liquid.  Seal the jar and let each student shake the jar 20 times..at the end of this your cream will be butter and a soft solid.  I salt it and bring in homemade bread for a snack...let me tell you there was not one crumb left!!  Oh...Grab some great freebies at the bottom of the page!!

They were shaking their little hearts out!!!

Sorry no pics of our snack! We were to busy eating!!!

We made these cute Pilgrims and wrote what we were thankful for!!  Give credit where credit is due I got this great Pilgrim pattern from First Grade Parade!!!

 I made it large so you could see how great our writing is getting!!


Now onto some Freebies!!!  I made a rhyming match game with a recording sheet and a math measuring sheet for Thanksgiving!!  Grab it below and enjoy it for your short work week next week!!!
Turkey Time Rhyming Cards
Turkey Time Recording Sheet
Thanksgiving Friends Measuring Sheet

Don't Be A Turkey,,and a freebie!!

My favorite time of the year!!!  Our Kindergarten classes did a Tom the Turkey Project for Thanksgiving and it turned out sooo cute!!  We focused on the book: Turk and Runt- two turkeys who don't want to be Thanksgiving Dinner!  We've also been focusing on the Pilgrims and Indians.  This has been a great time to work on our writing skills and they are really improving.  At the bottom I've posted a Thanksgiving Bingo Freebie!!  I love Bingo for all things and so do my kids!!




My name is Tom Turkey and I'm as scared as I can be!! I'm wearing a disguise so you won't catch me!!

  Some close ups of the turkeys...they were so good!!!

Our Mayflower Voyage Chart and Writing Project!!  I  tweaked this idea from Deanna Jump!!

 We wrote:  The pilgrims are on the ship.

 A shot of my K kids on our Pumpkin Patch Field Trip!!

Hope your having a great November!!  Click on the link below for a free Thanksgiving Bingo Card.  I left it blank so you could add your words or numbers!!! If you laminate it first you can use it over and over:
Thanksgiving Bingo!!!