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Thanksgiving Worksheets for Kindergarten

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Thanksgiving practice for kindergarten: turkey feather counting, addition and subtraction within 10, beginning sounds, sight words, reading, story order and writing.

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Turkey math for kindergarten

Count the turkey feathers and write the number, pie addition within 10 and turkey feather subtraction.

Thanksgiving phonics and sight words

Beginning sounds, a color by sight word turkey and a big-letter word search.

Thanksgiving reading and writing

A read-aloud about Lin, a Thanksgiving story to put in order (cut and paste or no-cut), word tracing and an I am thankful writing prompt.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these thanksgiving for kindergarten worksheets

These Thanksgiving worksheets for kindergarten practice the skills of late fall with turkeys, pies and family meals. Turkey math pages have children count feathers and write the number, add pies within 10 and take away feathers within 10. Phonics pages cover beginning sounds, a color by sight word turkey and a big-letter word search.

For reading and writing there is a short read-aloud about Lin saying thank you, a Thanksgiving story to put in order (cut and paste, or a no-cut version), Thanksgiving words to trace and an I am thankful writing prompt with a word bank and a drawing box. All pages are black and white, print on US Letter or A4, and pages with one right answer have an answer key on page 2. For preschool and 1st grade pages, see Thanksgiving Worksheets.

Standards

  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.1Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1.BRecognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.ADemonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.CRead common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.1With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1.APrint many upper- and lowercase letters.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.1Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is...).

How to use them

  1. Use one page a day in the two weeks before Thanksgiving.
  2. Do the I am thankful page early, and make a class book from the finished pages.
  3. Read the story aloud before the story order page, then retell it with first, next, then and last.
  4. Use paper feathers or counters to act out the feather subtraction page.

Teaching tips

  • On the turkey feather page, mark each feather with a dot as you count so none is counted twice.
  • Stretch the first sound on beginning sounds: "ttturkey".
  • On the writing prompt, a picture plus "I am thankful for my dog" is a great kindergarten sentence.
  • Families celebrate in different ways. Every answer about food and family is a good one.

Questions teachers and parents ask

What skills do these Thanksgiving worksheets practice?

Counting to 10, adding and subtracting within 10, beginning sounds, sight words, letter formation, story order, listening comprehension and opinion writing.

Is there an I am thankful page?

Yes. Children draw what they are thankful for and finish the sentence "I am thankful for" with help from a word bank.

Is there an answer key?

Yes. Every page with one right answer has an answer key on page 2 of the same PDF. Coloring, tracing, playdough and writing pages do not need one.

Can I skip the cutting?

Yes. The story order page has a no-cut twin where children write 1, 2, 3 and 4 under the pictures.