Thanksgiving and the Body Unit

This resource is included in the Body Unit-Holistic English Series # 11. Link to the resource:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Body-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-11-6416731

                                                      

The turkey theme aligns with Thanksgiving. This resource offers a multi-faceted approach to language learning. It encourages active participation through spinners, flashcards, and interactive activities, ideal for keeping kindergarteners focused.

The turkey flashcards introduce and reinforces vocabulary in a meaningful, playful way.

Describe the turkey’s body parts: This is the turkey’s head!

Call out a body part, and have students point or touch it on the board.

Students match the body unit flashcards from the resource with the turkey flashcard to reinforce vocabulary and visual recognition. Provide the turkey flashcard on the board. Have students match flashcards on the correct body part (e.g., "wing," "beak"). This is a way to build word-to-concept association and fine motor skills. Introduce the new body parts: beak, waddle, wings, feathers.

Use the pointer to name all the parts of the body of a turkey.

Review the concepts of up, and down with physical actions using the flashcards to reinforce understanding.

Show a flashcard and have the stduents do the action like the turkey: hands up!

Point out the difference between left and right. Use the flashcards and then have the students raise their left leg and right leg as you show the turkey’s flashcard.

Turkey Body Puzzle. It encourages problem-solving and sequencing. Just print the worksheet and dictate the color of the body parts on the turkey: Color the wings green!

Then, when the turkey is colored, have the stduents cut along the lines and assemble the turkey.

Another worksheet to label the parts of the body on the turkey.

Print and create the spinner, using a butterfly pin and a clip. Spin the spinner, name the body part it lands on, and give a direction: "Point to the wing" on the turkey flashcard. Or call out a command, like "Touch the beak the turkey."

Video!

There is more to this body unit resource. Check the blog post to see what else is included:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/01/body-unit-printable-book-and-commands.html

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