For this project, we cut out different shapes. It was a great way to practice our cutting skills.
Another project we created involved snipping "feathers" to go on a turkey.
Here we used our hand prints to decorate a turkey. These turkeys are hanging out with the people we made week 1!
After we were familiar with the idea of a turkey, we read a teacher made book about turkeys. Miss Deb even put it together using Turkey shapes!
Last week, we created a pictorial chart about the Wild Turkey. On Wednesday we created a pictorial chart about the Wild Turkey. We have been talking about it everyday since! Here is a picture of the completed chart.
We talked about the physical characteristics of a Wild Turkey. The snood is a piece of flesh that hangs over the turkeys beak. We hold our fingers over our nose as we practice saying"snood". The wattle hangs down under the Turkey's beak. We wiggle our fingers our own chin as we say "wattle". The Wild Turkey has fan like feathers. We hold up a fist and make a fan with our other fingers at the back as we say "fan like feathers" to help us remember.
We learned some interesting facts about the Wild Turkey. They have a 5 ft. wing span. We held our arms out to remember this. 
The turkey has a varied diet. We learned that diet refers to what an animal eats. Some of the things a Wild Turkey eats are the same as we eat and somethings a human would not eat!
We learned that the Wild Turkey lives in the forest of North America. Over the next few weeks we will start a theme about forest animals so expect to hear a lot more about the forest!
We learned that the Wild Turkey is Oviparous, which means it is born from an egg. Humans are not Oviparous. When we say Oviparous, we hold our hands in the shape of an oval to remind us of eggs.
After we learned about turkeys, one of our rotational activities was to read and color the mini book "Turkey by the...". We had fun seeing all of the places on a farm a turkey could stand by! After completing the book, we did a fun worksheet where we practiced putting turkey's by the same object they stood next to in the book. Both of these came home last Thursday.Sorry for the side ways pictures, but I could not get them to flip!
My student was loving the "Important Thing about the Wild Turkey" book. He loved telling everyone at Thanksgiving the difference between a waddle and a snood! He taught everyone something about the turkey because of that book!
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