What are you studying this month?

We hope to add some thanksgiving pages to our notebooks.

I just found this really neat freebie from teacher created resources (normally the lessons/activities are written for a classroom but can easily be adapted for a home setting).

It's a thanksgiving freebie. It offers a little thanksgiving history (we are reading living books so we probably will not use it) but I loved the last page, it's a nice picture of a turkey (clipart style) great for coloring, writing on it's feathers (which is suggested) or even labeling the parts of a turkey. You can use it anyway you want too!

Scroll down to the "Thanksgiving" section. It's the free activity from their book "TCR0258 Thanksgiving Thematic Unit"
http://www.teachercreated.com/free/activities.php

They also have some fun activities/facts about thanksgiving free from their book" TCR2058 Celebrate the Holidays, Grades 1-3" too.

I love freebies because it allows you to "try" out a publisher/company/method without spending a lot of $ to find it just isn't for your family/child.

I use notebooking to supplement what we are learning. Right now that happens to be explorers. Lucky for me, the fourth and the third graders are both studying the explorers at the same time.

George Catlin (artist)
Verdi (composer) & opera
Westward Expansion (history)
multiplication (math -- DUH )
poetry