Welcome November

I can't believe Thanksgiving is just a little more than two weeks away.  My how time does fly. I just wanted to share some good interactive Thanksgiving resources and one for Election Day to support your instruction. I have always loved this time of year as a classroom teacher!!

• Election Day - Video on Brainpop
• Scholastic Teaching Resources - A great assortment on online teaching resources for Thanksgiving from Scholastic
• The History Channel has quite a few online videos, stories, and other resources on The History of Thanksgiving. Have your students find 15 facts they may not know about Thanksgiving. http://www.history.com/content/thanksgiving The History Channel also has a great video and image gallery on Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower
• Plimoth Plantation's Site - An Interactive Site where you can be the historian and learn about both the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag and find out what Really Happened at the First Thanksgiving!
• Talk Like a Pilgrim - Plymouth.org
• Brainpop 
• Brainpop Jr Thanksgiving Video
• Brainpop Clip on Thanksgiving
• Thanksgiving Ideas for Children -
• Kaboose - Thanksgiving games and printables
• Discovery Education monthly newsletter - links to lots of good resources, scroll to the bottom to view Thanksgiving resources on Discover

Enjoy!