Vocabulary Words for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Vocabulary Words

Many vocabulary words for Thanksgiving may help you better design a worksheet or activity lesson for your class. They can be just about any word that have a Thanksgiving-related connotation.

You can create the perfect Hangman game for your students if you use them as a lesson. Here are a few Thanksgiving-related vocabulary words for you to choose from:

Autumn
Acorns
Carve
Colonists
Cider
Feast
Cornucopia
Gobble
Mayflower

If you brainstorm you can come up with an array of vocabulary words. Simple words such as “bread” or “ham” can also be considered to be Thanksgiving-related. You can even infuse the names of different states such as “Massachusetts.”

Games to Play with Thanksgiving Words

As a teacher, you have the power to create and to choose which words will work for your particular class or grade level. You might consider sitting down and forming a lesson plan. After setting your goal for the Thanksgiving vocabulary lesson, you can easily decide which Thanksgiving vocabulary words you would like to use and then decide which games you are interested in playing.

Thanksgiving Word Bank

Let’s say for the sake of illustration that you wanted to coordinate a creative writing word bank. This would be an easy worksheet for you to use because you can infuse several vocabulary words with the Thanksgiving-related vocabulary words. You could then have the students try to decipher which vocabulary words are Thanksgiving-related as opposed to which vocabulary words are not.

Thanksgiving Bingo Game

Another idea that you can incorporate into your lesson plan is a vocabulary-based Bingo game. Normally, a Bingo card has numbers on it with one or two free squares. Instead of using numbers, you could actually use vocabulary words. As the teacher you would be the Bingo conductor, so to speak, and you would call out a color and a word that would be on the bingo card.

For example, a normal game of bingo would ensue with an announcer calling out a color and a number like “blue 42.” You might color code the rows to be red, green, brown and yellow (or some semblance of Thanksgiving colors).

You would make three to four different versions of the Thanksgiving Bingo card with vocabulary words listed on the cards.

So you would call out a word and a color, and it would go something like this, “red-cornucopia!...green–acorns!” This could make for an exciting game of Thanksgiving Bingo!

Story Starters

If the idea of vocabulary bingo makes your skin crawl, then you can try something a bit easier. This is an idea for teachers who are in a rush. Prior to your students arrival to class you can write an array of vocabulary words on the chalkboard. Above the words you can write the title “Story Starters.”

When your students arrive you can let them know that they have to start a story with several of the vocabulary words listed on the board. Make up your own rules and regulations that will govern the story. For example, have your students use at least three of the words in the first two sentences once.

Worksheets with Thanksgiving Words

Another thought is to make a worksheet that has two columns one has a list of the words on one side and the other has a Thanksgiving item that the word can be associated with. For example, if “apple pie” was the Thanksgiving vocabulary word then “table” would be the Thanksgiving item, and so forth and so forth.

Additional worksheet ideas can be found on these websites:

ABC Teach - This site has a wide variety of Thanksgiving-based worksheets and word games including word search puzzles and a crossword puzzle as well as a variety of worksheets on subjects such as Thanksgiving food groups and Thanksgiving nouns.
Enchanted Learning - This site specializes in worksheets for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school students. In addition to worksheets, the website provides early reader books which can be customized, printable activity books and Thanksgiving word games.
AllKidsNetwork - A wide variety of free, printable worksheets are available on this website in PDF format for easy printing. Thanksgiving-themed worksheets are also included for older students which include missing word puzzles and word scramble worksheets.

Thanksgiving vocabulary words and activities can be an excellent addition to your lesson plans.