Wixie Ideas for Thanksgiving
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.
Use a Thanksgiving Template
Search your Wixie home page for "Thanksgiving" to find templates and activities you can use to build mouse skills, number sense, writing, and gratitude.
30+ ideas for Thanksgiving
Send a Digital Thank You Card
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
.Write a Class Thanksgiving Traditions Book
Have students create a Wixie project to share their experience and their family's Thanksgiving traditions. Combine the student projects into a class book.
Help Your Turkey Escape
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.
Thanksgiving Day Parade
Read Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet and then ask your students to design their own Thanksgiving Day parade float.
More ways teachers are using Wixie
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So Many Ways to Wixie for Thanksgiving
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Float Design Projects
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Counting Feathers
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Turkey disguises inspired by Turkey Trouble
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Balloons Over Broadway
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Poetry
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"Thank You, Sarah" Response
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Creating Cards
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Vocabulary - Label Pilgrim Clothing
