There are 12 activities. I made sure that each activity had an accountability piece. I used a variety of free programs, as well as ones we have available to us in our district.
1. Create a Six Word Story based on a Thanksgiving image. I linked a video from Discovery Education explaining what a six word story is (we have a DE subscription). There are some six word story videos on YouTube that could replace the Discovery Education resource or a teacher could simply explain and model the process.
2. Read a short Thanksgiving fiction piece in ReadWorks (free to educators) and respond to the question set.
3. Mystery Picture Math - Thanksgiving Word Problems (I created it in Google Sheets)
4. Answer a "Would you Rather" Thanksgiving writing prompt.
5. Watch Flocabulary's Thanksgiving rap and answer the question set. We have a district subscription to Flocabulary so this may need to be modified.
6. Mystery Picture Math - Thanksgiving Multiplication Practice (I created it in Google Sheets).
7. Watch a Thanksgiving read aloud and answer a corresponding question set on Quizizz.
8. Complete an emoji story retell of the read aloud.
9. Watch how parade balloons are made and answer a design challenge question.
10. Watch how the Macy's Day parade will be modified this year. Answer the pro and con question.
11. Complete an acrostic as directed.
12. Complete a drawing as directed.
The idea is that this slide show could be given to students the day before our Thanksgiving break, via Google Classroom, and they are given the day to complete all of the activities (could be in order...could be completed randomly depending on the teacher).
I created it for our teachers hoping to model how you can use various resources within one Google slideshow to give students a full day of activities on those "days before holiday breaks" particularly when working virtually.
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