Adding holiday lessons and activities to our regularly scheduled curriculum is one way I keep my kids (and myself) motivated to get schoolwork done during the holidays. I start sprinkling these kid-friendly Thanksgiving activities into our school days about a week after Halloween. I teach almost solely these Thanksgiving lesson plans to my middle school kiddos the week of Thanksgiving. Somehow my kids minds doing school work if it is seasonally appropriate and fun. Thanksgiving Lesson … [Read More...]
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