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Vocabulary Word List:
Abundance, America, Anxiety, Appetite, Apple cider, Apple pie, Appreciation, Aroma, Arrangement, Assemble, Autumn, Awe
Baking, Belonging, Beloved, Berries, Blessings, Bouquet, Bread, Brood
Candles, Care, Carve, Casserole, Cater, Celebrate, Celebration, Ceremony, Cherry pie, Chocolate, Church, Cider, Clan, Cloves, Collective, Colonist, Colony, Comfort, Community, Companionship, Conversation, Cook, Cooperative, Corn, Corn meal, Corn stalk, Cornbread, Cornucopia, Cranberries, Crops, Crowds
Decorations, Deep-seated, Delicacy, Delicious, Delight, Dinner, Dish, Dress up, Dressing, Duck
Eating, Efforts, Egg bread, Embrace, Entertain, Expectations
Fall, Familial, Familiar, Family, Famished, Favorite, Feast, Feeding, Festive, Fireplace, Fireside, Float, Flowers, Food, Freedom, Fried turkey, Friends, Friendship, Full
Gather, Gathering, Generations, Giblets, Giving, Gizzard, Gobble, God, Goose, Gooseberry pie, Gourd, Gourmet, Gratitude, Gravy, Green beans, Groceries, Groups, Guests
Ham, Harvest, Hearth, Heartland, Helping, Heritage, Holding hands, Holiday, Home, Homecoming, Homeward, Hope, Horn of plenty, Hospitality, Host, Hostess, Hot chocolate, Hugs, Hymns
Ice cream, Immigrate, Indian corn, Indians, Indigenous, Invite
Jam, Jellies, Journey cake, Joy, Joyful
Kale, Kernels, Kisses, Kitchen
Laughter, Legal federal holiday, Libation, Love
Maize, Mashed potatoes, Massachusetts, Mayflower, Meleagris gallopavo (scientific name), Memories, Mince meat pie, Minister, Mixture, Mood
Native American, Network, New World, November, Nutcrackers, Nutmeg, Nuts
Observances, Occasion, Onions
Pals, Parade, Peace, Picture perfect, Pies, Pilgrims, Plantation, Plentiful, Plum pudding, Plum sauce, Plymouth Colony, Plymouth Rock, Poult (baby turkey), Prayer, Pride, Priest, Priorities, Pumpkin pie, Puritans
Quince pie
Rabbi, Reflections, Refuge, Rejoice, Relationship, Relatives, Relaxation, Religion, Religious, Relish, Reunions, Ritual, Roast, Roast turkey, Rolls, Roots, Rutabaga
Sacred, Sage, Satiated, Sauce, Seasonings, Settlers, Sharing, Sigh, Spices, Squanto, Squash, Stress, Stuffing, Succotash, Sustenance, Sweet potato, Symbol, Synagogue
Table setting, Thanks, Thanksgiving, Thursday, Tom turkey, Tradition(s), Travel, Treaty, Trimmings, Trips, Turnips
Understanding, Unify, Unique, Universal
Vacation, Vanilla, Vegetable, Vegetarian, Venison, Viewpoint, Vision
Warmth, Wassail, Wattle, Welcome, Wild turkeys, William Bradford, Winter, Worship, Worshipers
Yams, Yells, Yorkshire pudding
Zany, Zesty, Zucchini
Thanksgiving Lesson Plans, Activities, Discussion Questions and ideas:
1. Draw or find pictures of items suggestive of Thanksgiving: ex: a cornucopia, a pilgrim hat, a turkey etc.
2. Make, buy or cook some food that would be unusual or typical of the holiday
3. Name games you like to play with groups of people
4. Create a list of safety procedures during the holidays, perhaps for travel
5. What other animals that might live where turkeys are found? What do they eat?
6. Find/bring into class something a pilgrim or a Native American might have needed to celebrate
7. Discover as many words for the holiday as possible that include the letters T-H-A-N-K-S-G-I-V-I-N-G, pilgrim, grateful, appreciation etc.
8. Create an imaginative story you can share: make one up, choose one from a book/newspaper etc.
9. Hold an art contest and pick winners from different categories; ex: foods, pilgrim tools, animals etc.
10. Have a contest to name items on a Thanksgiving table. Compare one list to others.
11. List ways family/friends could travel to reach a destination
12. Name at least five reasons why Americans should be grateful
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