Ted the Turkey Thanksgiving Build a Poem

Meet Ted the Turkey! In this turkey poem for kids, Ted the Turkey will flaunt his feathers and say gobble, gobble, gobble on Thanksgiving Day.  Introduce Ted the Turkey to your elementary students, and they will be ready to gobble up this interactive Thanksgiving build a poem pocket chart activity. Build your poetry collection with a FREE Build a Poem pocket chart center, HERE.

Ted the Turkey Thanksgiving Build a Poem 

After meeting Ted the Turkey, the students will learn a special poem about him. Sung to the tune, I'm a Little Teapot, Ted the Turkey is also a catchy Thanksgiving song for kids.

Build a Poem pocket chart center for Thanksgiving

Incorporate Thanksgiving finger plays with music and movement for your kinesthetic learners, while displaying this bright and colorful Ted the Turkey poem for your visual learners. 

Ted the Turkey Poem for Kids

After reciting the Ted the Turkey poem a couple times, the kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students are eager to go to the Thanksgiving Build a Poem pocket chart center.  

Ted the Turkey Build a Poem is an engaging Thanksgiving center for kids.

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Ted the Turkey pocket chart poem activity build fluency and language skills. 

This Thanksgiving Build a Poem activity build concepts of print, sight word recognition, reading fluency, language, and higher order thinking skills.  You may also be interested in the black and white printable Thanksgiving poems.  Find 5 Thanksgiving Poems for kids, HERE. 

Ted the Turkey Build a Poem

Before sending them to the Ted the Turkey Thanksgiving build a poem center, I like to model Build a Poem as a whole class activity - modeling how to track words on the poster, build the poem, check for accuracy, point and recite, and how to problem solve when others may disagree what comes next. 

Working in a small group, or individually, students sequence the words in correct order to complete the Ted the Turkey Build a Poem. 

I love observing this pocket chart build-a-poem center.  The kids are singing and reciting the poem, reading words, tracking print, and reading....all while having fun! 

During this time, the remaining students are engaged at different centers, including Thanksgiving Read and Write the Room, Building Sentences: 10 Turkey Facts,  and November Making Words.

Ted the Turkey can't escape the active learning with this Thanksgiving Pocket Chart Centter

Then, the kids LOVE swapping out the poem for the other version included. Wait, what?! Yes, friends, you can turn this Thanksgiving pocket chart poem into a personalized poem.  Now, this already fun Thanksgiving poem about Ted the Turkey gets even better!

Blank word cards are included for the kids to write their own name on.  Put all of the names into a baggy, and students can recite and build the poem using whichever name card is pulled.  This version REALLY gets the giggles out :)

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