Last week had only 2 days of school, but I feel like I saw so much turkey stuff around school. I wanted to create a math project that would be fun, Thanksgiving themed and differentiated. After looking around online and talking with my teaching partner I decided turkeys were the way to go. We currently have 4 math groups so we needed 4 ways to mix math and turkeys. One group is working on adding 1 to a number, the next is doing strategies to add any 2 numbers, we have one group learning doubles plus one and then a group learning how to find addition facts with a certain sum. We decided the first 3 groups would use 2 different colored feathers to represent the addends in the addition fact, and the third would write the sum on the turkey body and the addition facts that equal that number on all the feathers.
After deciding how we would go about doing this project is was time to ready all the materials and start our work. We made a white card stock copy of the body for them to cut and color. We copied feather outlines on orange, yellow, red and purple to give options and keep it fall themed. We really wanted to use construction paper, so being brave we tested it in the copier and it worked. Amazing! The next day we did the first half of the project. Each group met 1 at a time with the teacher their group had been working with you see what they needed to do. They spent their workshop time only making their turkey. They colored a body and cut it out. Then cut out feathers in 2 colors, unaware of what they would do with them. Once everything was cut out they glued it to a large piece of black paper and went on to do typical math workshop activities. On day 2 they got a part that we glued on to the bottom of the black paper. This had a little problem saying how many of the 2 colored feathers the turkey had, and a place to write a matching addition sentence.
The students really enjoyed doing this. It was a great way to integrate art, math and holidays. Keep a watch on the blog... Our snowman version will be posted soon too!
Here are examples of our work!
This shows a number plus 1. They got 1 feather of a color they choose then cut out however many or the other color they wanted.
This shows the group that just added 2 numbers. Unfortunately I did not get a photo of the doubles plus 1 group. Theirs looked like this but they did a math fact such as 6+7 to practice finding a double and adding 1 more.
This is the group that wrote number sentences with the same sum.
After deciding how we would go about doing this project is was time to ready all the materials and start our work. We made a white card stock copy of the body for them to cut and color. We copied feather outlines on orange, yellow, red and purple to give options and keep it fall themed. We really wanted to use construction paper, so being brave we tested it in the copier and it worked. Amazing! The next day we did the first half of the project. Each group met 1 at a time with the teacher their group had been working with you see what they needed to do. They spent their workshop time only making their turkey. They colored a body and cut it out. Then cut out feathers in 2 colors, unaware of what they would do with them. Once everything was cut out they glued it to a large piece of black paper and went on to do typical math workshop activities. On day 2 they got a part that we glued on to the bottom of the black paper. This had a little problem saying how many of the 2 colored feathers the turkey had, and a place to write a matching addition sentence.
The students really enjoyed doing this. It was a great way to integrate art, math and holidays. Keep a watch on the blog... Our snowman version will be posted soon too!
Here are examples of our work!
This shows a number plus 1. They got 1 feather of a color they choose then cut out however many or the other color they wanted.
This shows the group that just added 2 numbers. Unfortunately I did not get a photo of the doubles plus 1 group. Theirs looked like this but they did a math fact such as 6+7 to practice finding a double and adding 1 more.
This is the group that wrote number sentences with the same sum.
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