Do you ever have this problem? Your kids know there’s a holiday coming up. All of the sudden things that used to take you 15 minutes are now taking 30 because of all the excitement. They’re fidgety in their seats and the mere mention of “break” seems to induce unprecedented excitement?
This week in the home schooling blog, we will be talking about ways to incorporate this week’s holiday–Thanksgiving–with your homeschooling. Today we’ll start with turkey lit! (Did I just invent a new genre?)
1. A Plump and Perky Turkey by Teresa Bateman
2. Perky Turkey’s Perfect Plan by Judy Goodspeed
3. Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim’s Book of Food and Manners by Lucille Recht Penner
4. Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message by Jake Swamp
5. I Know an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson
6. If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern
7. In November by Cynthia Rylant
8. Jamestown by James E. Knight
9. On the Mayflower by Kate Waters
10. P is for Pilgrim: A Thanksgiving Alphabet by Carol Crane
11. Pilgrim’s First Thanksgiving by Ann Mcgovern
12. Samuel Eaton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy by Kate Waters
13. Sarah Morton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl by by Kate Waters
14. Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving by Eric Metaxas
15. Tapenum’s Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy In Pilgrim Times
16. Thanks and Giving all Year Long by Marlo Thomas
17. Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes
18. Thanksgiving Day by Gail Gibbons
19. The Night Before Thanksgiving by Natasha Wing
20. The Very First Thanksgiving Day by by Rhonda Gowler Greene
21. Turkeys, Pilgrims and Indian Corn: The Story of the Symbols of Thanksgiving by Edna Barth
22. Don’t Know Much About the Pilgrims by Kenneth C. Davis
23. Happy Thanksgiving by Margaret McNamara
24. An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott
25. 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving by National Geographic Society’s Books for Kids
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