This Topic Mini-Research & Literature Web Page
was developed for Mrs. Downing's Pre-K Class at Lomax Elementary School
Designed By Gail Golden, at Valdosta State University Preservice Teacher
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What
do we know about turkeys?
This website will tell us many things about turkeys and where they live. |
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What
is a boy turkey called? What is a girl turkey called? Let's visit The American Turkey
to see if he can help us answer these question. |
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We
have learned so much information about turkeys. Did you know turkeys
can talk?
The boy turkey makes one sound and the girl turkey makes another sound.
Can you tell me which sound the boy turkey makes? |
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Why
is eating turkey
so popular during the Thanksgiving holidays? We are going to get
some cool
information that will tell us why eating turkey is so
important to us during the holidays. |
| Mini-Research Real-World
Activity Tonya and Tonka Turkey
are inviting all of their turkey friends to their home for a big
Thanksgiving party. Tonka loves having pictures of his friends printed
in their local newspaper The Gobblin Gazette. Tonya called The
Gobblin Gazette office to invite their artist to the party. To her
surprise all the artists were out of town drawing pictures for other
animal parties. This made Tonka and Tonya very sad. They need your
help. It would make Tonka very happy for you to draw a picture of one
of his friends to put in their local newspaper. If you have trouble
remembering what a turkey looks like The American Turkey
have lots of pictures for you to see. Have
fun at the party and do
not forget to take your crayons and paper to draw your favorite guest.
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| Steps For Real-World Activity You have arrived as a guest and artist
at Tonya and
Tonka's Thanksgiving party. It is time for you to get to work and draw
your favorite turkey at the party. Follow the steps below and your
pictures will be perfect to print in The Gobblin Gazette.
1. Get a
sheet of plain white paper to draw your favorite turkey
at the
party.
2. You will need crayons to draw and color your picture. 3. Make sure you write the name of the guest on your picture. If you need help with spelling or writing a word be sure to ask for help. 4. When you have finished with your drawing take it to the editor(teacher or adult) of The Gobblin Gazette to print your picture in the Monday's newspaper. Now that your work is done and the party is over it is time to say goodbye to all the guest. The only way to say goodbye at a turkey party is by gobbling. Forgot how to gobble? Gobble Gobble!! |
Topic Literature Activity
by Mari Schuh
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Topic
Literature Activity
Using Critical Thinking Questions  A.
_guest and artist_____________________________ (Picture
& Topic Link)
Link that introduces your topic information and has a connection with your literature book. B. List your two critical thinking questions for your topic-related literature book. 1. If you were a
turkey, where would you live and why?
2. If you had a farm, what animals would you have and why? . |
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