I love using superteacherworksheets.com! Do you?
I found a fantastic passage on Presidential Pardons for Turkeys. It is a fourth grade passage, a bit high for most of my friends. So after some discussion, we read it together. It was quite interesting with the history of the turkey pardon.
Then for the fun!
I told my friends to pretend they were a turkey. They needed to compose a letter to President Obama asking him for a Thanksgiving pardon. We brainstormed, learned the five parts of a letter {just click here for that post and freebie}, and then went to town.
These kids wrote great letters.
I love how this student gave up his older brother as a better option for Thanksgiving dinner. And he is so right- I know I wouldn't want to eat a smelly turkey!
If you would like to do this activity with your students, just click here or on the pic below. It is a freebie!
Hope you still have time to use it! It brought a lot of giggles to my friends.
Thanks for reading =)
~lisa
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