Hope it's okay to start a new topic on this. The other Thanksgiving lesson posts that I could find are all a couple years old at least.
Since Chuseok is this weekend, I'm doing a Thanksgiving/Chuseok lesson for my after-school class tomorrow. The PPT borrows some material/ideas from old PPTs people have posted here, and the bomb game is a combination of two Thanksgiving-themed bomb games I found, so thank you to the original creators!
After the very basic Thanksgiving story part and talking about Thanksgiving traditions (including watching clips of the Macy's Day Parade and American football), I'll get them to write and then discuss Thanksgiving compared to Chuseok. Then I want them to describe their Chuseok traditions in a little more detail. (I made
really basic, boring worksheets for these activities, so feel free to spruce them up a little.)
We'll play the bomb game to review.
Then we're going to talk about being thankful, brainstorm all the things a person could be thankful for, and then they'll make the hand-tracing turkey that a lot of us probably did in elementary school.
After they write what they're thankful for on the turkey feathers, I'll have them share it with the class.
If there's extra time I'll play the Simpsons Thanksgiving episode or maybe Charlie Brown Thanksgiving clips. (I might have to skip this if YouTube doesn't cooperate / if I can't find a download link.)
This should fill two 45-minute lessons (I teach two back-to-back lessons with the same students, 1st and 3rd grade mixed).
I hope this helps someone!
