THANKSGIVING in 1º ESO A

One more time my students have been learning about this important North American celebration. This year they have started by singing this rap:

 After that , we have done many other tasks in English, such as:

 1.-Learning about this important tradition in USA with Madeleine (our American Language Assistant).
2.- Finding people they were grateful for and writing down good messages.

3.- Adding their sentences to colourful turkey crafts.

 Here you can see some of their productions:

THANKSGIVING

One more year my students are going to learn about Thanksgiving and they will have to write about gratitude.

But this year I want them to watch this moving art video by Louie Schwartzberg . I am sure that after seeing it, they will all understand why we must be thankful for living every single day, not just as another day, but as the one that is given to us as a beautiful gift.

 

 If you want to see some crafts and activities you can click here

THANKSGIVING HISTORY

THANKSGIVING TIME

There are many examples of nice songs thanking for all the good things we all have in our lives as the ones which follow here:

 TASKS

1. Surf the net for similar songs 
2. Complete this text about the History of Thanksgiving and copy it in your notebooks
3.  Find  things that you are grateful for and write them  down.
4. Add your sentences  to a nice turkey craft so we can decorate our class

( See some examples of  our 2011 activities   and the ones we did last year with Ryan, our American Language Assistant )

THANKSGIVING

■The First Thanksgiving was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the pilgrims survive the brutal winter. That feast lasted three days providing enough food for 53 pilgrims and 90 Indians and the  menu featured turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie.

■U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving Day a national holiday in 1863. However in 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt established the current date for observance, the fourth Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day.

ACTIVITIES:

1.  Comprehension

2.  Crossword

3.  Turkey Hands craft :

 Trace and  cut out the shape of your hand. Then  draw a turkey face on the thumb and add some feathers or colours on the rest of the fingers (the waddle is optional ! :-)).

Finally find  things that you are grateful for and write them  down in this way:

"I am thankful for my wonderful and intelligent daughter"   :-)

 4º ESO students showing their "turkeys" to Ryan