Turkeys

This week we learned about Turkeys, getting ready for Thanksgiving! The kids learned some turkey facts and now know that a male turkey is called a Tom, a female turkey is called a Hen, a baby turkey is called a poult, the red skin under their chin is called the wattle, and the red skin above their beak is called the snood. They are so smart! On Monday the students made a turkey with their hand! I traced their hand to make the body of the turkey and then let them cut out their own feathers. 

This was good cutting practice for them. 

On Tuesday the students got to make what I called a "Mr. Turkey Head". We used a pine cone for the body then I gave them 4 feathers, a paper beak, and paper eyes to put on their turkey. There was no glue involved, I just had them stick the items into the pine cone. 

They were pretty funny looking but cute! 

On Wednesday we made some awesome turkey hats! 

The kids loved these!

In another center we had some turkey pinning where the students gave the cardboard turkeys some feathers by marching up the numbers. This activity helped with number recognition as well as fine motor skills! 

On Thursday the students got to practice tracing their name, using fingerprint! Those kids love getting thier hands dirty! 

Friday the kids did some letter T activities. They did a T dauber page and then traced the letter T with a que tip dipped in paint. They did a great job with this!