Use these student-created projects and social posts from classroom teachers to inspire your activities in your classroom for Thanksgiving.
Creative use of technology can engage students, and help you integrate technology into daily classroom instruction.
Search your Wixie home page for "Thanksgiving" to find templates and activities you can use to build mouse skills, number sense, writing, and gratitude.
Have students create and send a thank you card in Wixie. From hand drawn pictures that represent a shared experience to a photo with audio recording, asking students express gratitude not only makes someone else's day, research shows it will make students happier too
.Have students create a Wixie project to share their experience and their family's Thanksgiving traditions. Combine the student projects into a class book.
Read Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano and ask your students to creating a disguise to help their turkeys avoid detection, just like in the story.
Read Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet and then ask your students to design their own Thanksgiving Day parade float.
Exploring all the tools in #Wixie with @CCgiaco3 class ????
— Sara Quesenbery (@SaraQuesenbery) November 21, 2019
We made mindmaps, dressed our turkeys?? for a trip to our favorite places, planned our dream Thanksgiving feast & filled our cornucopias with things we are #thankful for! @Tech4Learning @BaileysES_FCPS pic.twitter.com/c61iiZCPcH
@HumbleISD_ACE 4th graders are designing a Thanksgiving float in Wixie to build in STEM that will go over Dash Robots to host a robot parade @HumbleISD_DDI @HumbleISD @Humble_Science @HumbleISD_CI @ElizabethFagen @LuciSchulz1 pic.twitter.com/QnIVaCnhUa
— Brandy Walden (@BrandyWalden2) November 4, 2021
PreK students in Wicomico County used Wixie to create a turkey with feathers. Then they counted how many feathers they used. #wixie @tech4learning pic.twitter.com/4U7OVDLwh4
— mrscushman (@mrscushman) November 19, 2021
Don't eat us!!! Loved having the opportunity to work with @Parkerva1 to save a few turkeys today! #Wixie pic.twitter.com/txwrruUWp1
— Gail Charnick (@CharnickSCES) November 24, 2021
Happy Thanksgiving, Oak Hill! We are beyond grateful for all of you! After reading Balloons Over Broadway and learning about the history of the Macy's Day parade, 2nd graders used Wixie to design their own storybook balloon. @oakhill2172 #AACPSawesome @AACPSReads pic.twitter.com/oVldFnvTYU
— Oak Hill READS! (@oakhillreads) November 25, 2021
We read "Balloons Over Broadway" and designed our own parade balloons using Wixie! Happy Thanksgiving! @ATS_FCPS @fcpsnews pic.twitter.com/J0rXeBs99f
— TACousino (@CubRunCousino) November 24, 2020
Thanksgiving poetry using Wixie. Kids say it best. #loveWixie #thankfulformystudents pic.twitter.com/Ohb4028Pqv
— DES Media Magic (@VerlichMj) November 17, 2018
#readaloudoftheday is Thank You, Sarah by #lauriehalseanderson. This is the true story of a rockstar of a woman who saved Thanksgiving for us all! 2nd graders wrote their own thank you�s after. #wixie #readingresponse #librarylife #itsworthit pic.twitter.com/4nVLdaBGBW
— Danielle Brown (@wes_library) November 23, 2019
Exploring all the tools in #Wixie with @CCgiaco3 class ????
— Sara Quesenbery (@SaraQuesenbery) November 21, 2019
We made mindmaps, dressed our turkeys?? for a trip to our favorite places, planned our dream Thanksgiving feast & filled our cornucopias with things we are #thankful for! @Tech4Learning @BaileysES_FCPS pic.twitter.com/c61iiZCPcH
1st graders created digital thanksgiving cards with #wixie today @VBFairfieldES for their families. Ts is sharing the animations with families through @ClassDojo @Tech4Learning. The power of multimedia! #vbits #Wearevbschools #vbschools #vbamazing #thanksgiving #TurkeyDay pic.twitter.com/wKasdI2Zxe
— Aimee Clarke (@VBTechTeacher) November 20, 2018
2nd grade can label Pilgrim Clothing in Wixie @HumbleISD_TE @HumbleISD_DL #TEinspires pic.twitter.com/kSpI9F91GZ
— Laura Frey (@TimbersTech) November 16, 2017
A Thanksgiving meal #wixie #art #create #studentwork #meal #thanksgiving #holidays pic.twitter.com/mGLFb7jvw1
— Mrs. Hong (@HongAAP) December 7, 2016
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