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Get ready to bring the cozy spirit of fall and Thanksgiving to your classroom! The week leading up to the holiday is the perfect time to explore your students’ unique family traditions and learn more about them, all while keeping a strong focus on academic skills. This page is your comprehensive hub for fall and Thanksgiving resources, lesson plans, and ideas especially for upper elementary students. Below, you’ll find a curated collection of our best, tried-and-true activities that bring both learning and joy to your classroom.

This page is your comprehensive hub for fall and Thanksgiving resources, lesson plans, and ideas especially for upper elementary students.

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Fall and Thanksgiving Ideas

These November Literacy Lessons for upper elementary combine a high-quality, skill-focused passage with carefully selected picture books.

Elevate Your November Literacy Lessons with Engaging Passages & Picture Books

These beautiful fall picture books are perfect for teaching character and academic skills in upper elementary. Includes our anchor chart!

4 Beautiful Fall Picture Books for Teaching Character and Academic Skills

November read alouds for upper elementary students, related lessons to use with each book, and seasonal activity ideas too!

November Read Alouds for Upper Elementary

Here are some of my favorite fall read alouds, along with different fall literacy activities that are all great for upper elementary.

Fall Read Alouds and Literacy Activities for Upper Elementary

Thanksgiving, November, and fall seasonal lesson plans and activities for math and literacy in upper elementary.

Thanksgiving Lesson Plans for Big Kids

thanksgiving writing upper elementary

Thanksgiving Writing Activity

The Best Fall and Thanksgiving Resources

  • Fall Math and Literacy Activities Bundle
  • November Poem of the Week Fluency and Comprehension
  • Thanksgiving and Fall Context Clues Activity Cover
  • Readers Theatre Covers THANKSGIVING
  • Thanksgiving Inferencing Centers
  • Thanksgiving Logic Puzzles COVER
  • Thanksgiving Literacy Project COVER
  • Thanksgiving Reading Skills Task Cards for Reading Comprehension
  • Thanksgiving Math Project Thanksgiving Math Activities Plan Thanksgiving Dinner
  • Thanksgiving Math By the Numbers Cover
  • Thanksgiving Math Logic Puzzle COVER
  • Fall Multi Step Word Problem Scavenger Hunt Cover 1
FREEEE for your classroom tomorrow morning! Commen FREEEE for your classroom tomorrow morning! Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to print this Find Someone Who made especially for tomorrow morning. 🏈 There’s no way around it — all of our kids are going to be talking about the big game, so instead of resisting it, I lean into it and let them get the chatter out of their systems! 🩷💕Whether your students watched the game, ate snacks, enjoyed commercials, or didn’t even know it was on, they’ll love starting their day moving around and chatting with their peers.
It’s almost time for one of my favorite Valentin It’s almost time for one of my favorite Valentine’s Day classroom traditions — Compliment Bags for all of their cards and goodies! 🩷💕 Here’s why I love this so much 👇👇

Truth: I have never been a huge fan of having students bring in their own decorated bags and boxes because inevitably, some are the most elaborate creations you’ve ever seen, while others forget them completely. 😬😬 So, I started using this idea in 2009 after learning about it from my cooperating teacher, and it NEVER gets old. 

✍️ I incorporate it into my writing block in the few days before Valentine’s Day so that students can use excellent vocab and write beautiful sentences to one another then transfer them to the bags on Valentine’s Day!

💖 Comment below, and I’ll send you ALL the details about how I implement this into my classroom, including how I get students to write genuine, specific compliments and which bags I use!

I have been sharing this on my blog and socials since 2011, and every single year, I look forward to seeing all the compliment bags YOUR students make. It truly brings me so much joy!
It’s a big weekend for football lovers!! 🏈 I It’s a big weekend for football lovers!! 🏈 I love using this quick math challenge in the few days before and after the biggest game of the year (even if my team isn’t playing this year 😭😜). Comment below, and I’ll send you this no-prep resource to bring the game into your classroom!
Listen, it’s in my genes, and I’ve just come t Listen, it’s in my genes, and I’ve just come to accept it. 🤷‍♀️
The games are finally coming this week, and I can’t WAIT to start incorporating them into my classroom!! 👏 We just wrapped up ELEVEN new podcasts (over 60 minutes of content) for the classroom focusing on winter sports, and I can’t wait to get started! These are always SUCH a huge hit with my students. 

Comment below, and I’ll send you the info for ALL of my Winter Games plans over the next few weeks!
Take a look at the current state of my classroom a Take a look at the current state of my classroom absolutely COVERED in books and tell me…What is YOUR favorite book in your classroom right now? 👇

🌟 Last week, I looked around my room and took a moment to appreciate all the beautiful books we’ve read over the past few weeks or plan to read soon. I use these books during morning meeting, for literacy lessons, to focus in on personal growth goals my students have, etc. By putting them up around the room, I generate interest in the stories, remind students of the important lessons learned in certain books we’ve read, and expose students to many different ideas about life, the world, and the nature of humans. They are TRULY one of the single greatest tools I have as a teacher. 🩷💕
I teach high achieving, gifted identified students I teach high achieving, gifted identified students, and if they end their time with me understanding just one thing, I want it to be this. 💕🩷 

This poster is adapted from my lesson on perfectionism with the book Ish by Peter Reynolds and accompanied by other excellent books for overcoming this challenge. Comment below for the book companion, or save the anchor chart to create with your students.
Comment below, and I’ll send you the FREE gift t Comment below, and I’ll send you the FREE gift tags (lots of options!) and a link to these cuties. 🩷💕 #studentgifts #valentines
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