November Events

Lesson Ideas

Pair this with an Ocean book in your library or Sora

Read: Book of Mistakes

Accompanying Lesson

Read a Veterans Day picture book and then have students write cards that can be taken to a local Vet hospital.

Ideas for after reading:
  1. Give each student a marshmallow
  2. Put pictures of food in story on blocks. In groups at tables have them build a tower in sequence. Give them time to try it on their own and then go over it slowly as a group to self-correct if needed.

Read a nonfiction book about Turkeys. Bring in turkey tails, feathers, beard, feet, etc. to show students.

Make

Create a leafless tree on a bulletin board or with real tree branches put in a pot. Have staff and students write on a paper leaf something they are thankful for, their favorite book, something kind someone did for them. . .

Displays

Books

Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids
I sang you down from the stars
by Spillett-Sumner, Tash
Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters
by Dan Sasuweh JonesVideo Trailer
Shaped by her Hands
by Anna Harber Freeman
The Water Lady : how Darlene Arviso helps a thirsty Navajo Nation
by Alice B McGinty Video Trailer
We are still here! : Native American truths everyone should know
by Traci SorellVideo Trailer
Fry Bread
by Kevin Noble Maillard
Bowwow powwow
by Brenda J Child
We Are Water Protectors by Carole LindstromVideo Trailer
If you lived during the Plimoth Thanksgiving
by Chris Newell
We are Grateful
by Traci SorellVideo Trailer
Giving Thanks
by Chief Jake SwampBook Reading
Those Shoesby Maribeth Boelts
The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig
I Need a Hug by Aaron BlabeyBook Trailer
Tuesday Tucks Me In by Luis Carlos Montalvan
The Thankful Book by Todd Parr
Sophie's Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller
The Very Last Leaf by Stef Wade
Fletcher and thee Falling Leaves by Julia Rawlinson
Bear Says Thanks by Karma Wilson
Apple Cake by Dawn Casey
A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting
Turk and Runtby Lisa Wheeler
Thank You, Sarahby Laurie Halse Anderson
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey by Lucille Colandro
Balloons Over Broadwayby Melissa Sweet
The Firefighters' Thanksgiving by Maribeth Boelts
Thanksgiving at the Tappletons' by Eileen Spinelli
Our Table by Peter Reynolds
Twenty-one Steps by Jeff Gottesfeld
Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion by Jane Barclay
Rags: Hero Dog of WWIby Margot Theis Raven
The Wallby Eve Bunting
The Poppy Ladyby Barbara E Walsh
Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusionby Chris Barton, Victo Ngai
America's White Tableby Margot Theis Raven, Mike Benny