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Thanksgiving Centers for Kindergarten

I love teaching my students all about turkeys during the last week leading up to Thanksgiving, but I also like to bring in some additional Thanksgiving themed activities throughout the entire month of November. One of my favorite ways to do this is with these math and literacy Thanksgiving centers. Your students will be highly engaged with these escape room type activities, as they complete different challenges to eliminate the suspects and discover which disguised turkey has stolen the pumpkin pies!

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

Thanksgiving Escape Room

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with “The Case of the Pumpkin Pie Bandit” Thanksgiving Escape Room!

My favorite way to introduce our Thanksgiving centers is by setting the stage with a note form the pie shop owner.

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

Read this script to boost engagement and get students excited for what’s to come:

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A tricky turkey,

Dressed in disguise,

Snatched up all,

The pumpkin pies!

Please can you help,

Solve this mystery,

And find the bandit,

Who took them from me?

Complete each challenge,

To receive a clue.

Eliminate the suspects,

And figure out who!

Once I have read the script, it is time for the detectives to set up their case files!

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

File folders are a great way to make the center activities more authentic, but using a large sheet of folded construction works just as well. All of the completed Thanksgiving center activities will be housed in these case files.

Thanksgiving Centers Set Up

I like to set up these Thanksgiving math and literacy centers at the beginning of November so we can use them all year long. After printing the centers, prep is a breeze! Simply add each challenge to a manila envelope. As an alternative, you can also choose to use a basket or tub to organize your centers.

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

There are six to eight challenges included! In order to solve “The Case of the Pumpkin Pie Bandit,” the students will need to complete each of the Thanksgiving themed math and literacy centers.

Once the students complete a challenge, they will receive a clue from the culprit.

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

Based on that clue, a suspect will be eliminated.

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

After the students complete all of the challenges, they will be left with one remaining guilty suspect and “The Case of the Pumpkin Pie Bandit” will be solved!

Thanksgiving Centers for Literacy

There are four different literacy centers included. Here is a sneak peek at the targeted skills the students will work on during each challenge.

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

In order to solve the “Cornucopia Challenge,” the students will build each CVC word by identifying the beginning sound, ending sound, or all three sounds.

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

Next, they will take on the “Pie Challenge” where they will need to match the pie to its rhyming oven.

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

At the “Feather Challenge,” the students will be asked to count the syllables and match the feather to the correct turkey.

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

In order to receive the next clue, the students will match the uppercase and lowercase letters to build each wishbone.

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

Thanksgiving Centers for Math

The suspense builds as the students work through the four math centers! Here is a peek at the math challenges.

At the “Mayflower Challenge,” the students will help the Mayflower set sail by ordering the numbers 1-10 or 11-20.

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

As they arrive at the “Turkey Challenge,” they will need to use the pumpkin pie ruler to measure each turkey and then count and color how many.

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

When they make it to the “Pilgrim Hat Challenge,” the students will count the feathers and match the pilgrim hat to the correct turkey.

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

The final challenge will be the “Corn Challenge” where the students will add more to make 5 and then write the number sentence to match.

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

You can also drop the mystery aspect, and use these as regular math and literacy centers.

More Thanksgiving Activities

Work on building number sense with this decomposing turkey craft & center game!

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these highly engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, and rhyming words. They will also practice decomposing five, ordering numbers, and measuring. Students will love these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

Don’t forget to browse this list of 25 fiction and nonfiction turkey books!

Students will gobble up these fiction and nonfiction turkey books throughout the month of November! These turkey books for kids are great for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students! Students will learn all about turkeys with these engaging turkey read alouds. Integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with the turkey activities and turkey crafts found in this post. Great for Thanksgiving math centers or Thanksgiving literacy centers!

Strengthen fine motor skills and number sense with these FREE “Stuff the Turkey” math games for centers!

Add these stuff the turkey fine motor activities to your Thanksgiving math centers! These turkey math centers are great for practicing 1:1 counting, subitizing, adding, and making 10. Plus, strengthen fine motor skills, as you build number sense, with these stuff the turkey math games and fine motor activities for Thanksgiving. These turkey math activities can be played independently or with a partner during math workshop, morning work, or as an early finishers activity!

Discover 30 turkey crafts and activities for your classroom here!

You might also enjoy these three turkey games for comparing numbers and counting forward and backward from a given number!

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Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!
Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!
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Ashley Sharp

As a dedicated Kindergarten teacher for nearly 20 years, I believe the words “fun, play, and creativity” can sit right alongside the words “developmentally appropriate, engaging, and rigorous.” Learning is meant to be fun and messy!

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