'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving

Fifth grade teachers read " Twas the Night Before Christmas " to the students,
then asked them to write a poem " Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving " from the turkey's viewpoint.
The pictures of the turkeys are their own creations as well as the poems. Delightful!

Taylor wrote:

'Twas the night before Thanksgiving when all through the kitchen,
When filled with the pepper, turkey started itching.
As the cook was cooking that turkey so grand,
The chicken was practicing with his fine rock band.

The turkey is "bouncing", the table is "hopping",
The house is filled with lots of rocking.
As the people were feasting on that turkey so grand,
Listening to that merrily rock band.

Pierce wrote:

'Twas the night before Thanksgiving
The bread was being taken.
I think I saw Dad who was cooking the bacon.
I helped my dad with that cooking
And then I yelled to the kids, "Come a looking!"

Once they were finished with me that day,
The put cranberries and apples where I once lay.
The family left so plump in their belly,
And reclined in their chair and watched the "telly".

Thanksgiving, Thematic Unit By Teacher Created Resources Thematic Units from Teacher Created Materials are literature based, cross-curricular, and ready to use. They provide activities, many of them hands-on, for all areas of the curriculum, including math, science, language arts, social studies, physical education, art, and music. Each book offers two or more literature-based units and lesson plans plus cross-curricular activities and worksheets, a culminating activity, management ideas, and a bibliography. Complete and comprehensive, these reproducible units are designed with student interest and teacher usability in mind. The books covered in this unit (that need to be purchased or borrowed) are: A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting, Silly Tilly's Thanksgiving Dinner by Lillian Hoben, and Thanksgiving at the Tappleton's by Eileen Spinelli.