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Investigating the First Thanksgiving
True or false*: The first Thanksgiving was held in November. The Pilgrims stole corn from the Wampanoag Indians. Everyone ate turkey. *(The answers are False, True, and False.) Visit Plimoth Plantation
for more facts and myths about the first Thanksgiving. Children will also enjoy stories about a Wampanoag girl (Savannah and the Salmon) and a Pilgrim girl (Daybreak at Planting Time).
Want more thematic books and lessons? Reading A-Z, a LearningPage subscription sister website, provides thousands of downloadable books on hundreds of topics for one low annual licensing fee. Check it out. Do a topic search with the Search Tool, using terms such as Thanksgiving, nutrition, or foods, and discover for yourself the incredible wealth of educational resources at your fingertips.
Science Tidbit: Sea Rocket Succulent Stingy with Strangers
People having company for dinner are usually fair, and even generous, with their guests. But not all species live by this friendly protocol, according to this month’s free Science in the News, from Science A-Z.com. The Sea Rocket -  a plant that grows by lakes and oceans - shares nutrients and soil just fine with its own plant family. But, enter another plant family, and the Sea Rocket becomes a greedy, long-rooted succulent, not allowing its neighboring dune inhabitants to get their fair share of nutrients.
Go Fly a Kite: It’s National Aviation Month
The Chinese discovered that kites could fly around 400 BC, but many failed attempts and two thousand years passed before people first spread their own wings. First, men traveled the skies in the late 1700s in hot air balloons invented by the French and on gliders developed by Germans. Then in 1903, Americans Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first to fly a powered airplane. In the 100 years since Orville and Wilbur, the advances in aviation seem endless. NASA’s Kid’s Page is a great place to learn more about the science of flight.
Maybe We Need to Let Boys Be Boys to Learn
A lack of active play may be holding boys back in reading and writing, so says Learning A-Z (parent company of Learning page) publisher Bob Holl in his education blog.
Foreclosure Fallout Spills Into Classrooms
About two million children will feel the impact as their families lose their homes in the economic crisis. That loss will undoubtedly carry over into academic performance and classroom behavior. Bob’s Education Blog discusses how education is impacted by homelessness.
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Celebrate Healthy Eating
LearningPage’s new November Worksheets make it fun to learn about good nutrition. Children will draw an “X” through unhealthy food choices, identify the first letter of various foods, connect the dots and color a  Thanksgiving picture, answer questions about the monsters’ meal, cut and paste pictures of foods to complete patterns, fill in the last syllable of different food words, brainstorm healthy snacks, put healthy and not healthy foods in a Venn diagram, and write a concrete poem in the shape of a favorite seasonal food. In the spirit of election season, children will also tally votes for the favorite Thanksgiving food.
Download three FREE printable books this month: Kids will tag along with Tommy as he is drawn into a school election; learn about flying machines, from balloons to space ships; and discover how people around the world celebrate food and family.
Tommy for President
Fantastic Flying Machines
Celebrating Food and Family
The Science of Having Fun
Funology is packed with wacky facts, weird science, boredom busters, jokes and riddles, games, and yummy recipes. There are hundreds of ideas for projects, from making placemats to shrunken “heads” (carved apples). You can search for ideas by type of activity, category, or age.
Website of the Month Archive
Teacher Planet
Election, Thanksgiving, and autumn lesson plans
School Express
Funtime activity jigsaw puzzles
Educational Worksheets for Children
Handwriting, grammar, math, and science worksheets
To find thousands of teaching resources, visit Sites for Teachers.
Many of the websites provide materials for free.
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