There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey Book Companion November PreK-2nd

About this resource

This week pairs with **There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey by Lucille Colandro** (or any silly

Thanksgiving story you already have). Not affiliated with the author or publisher. You need your own copy of

the book; nothing from it is reproduced here — every picture in the file is our own drawing or a licensed

picture set, not the book's artwork, and this unit invents its own swallowed-item order rather than copying

the book's.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (58 pages)

Three Levels On Every Academic Task

Sort, count, letters and writing each come in three levels, marked with a small shape instead of a

number so children don't compare theirs to a neighbor's: a circle for starting (errorless matching), a

square for building (the standard task), a triangle for ready for more (a real step up — a third sort

group, counting 6 to 10 with writing, or beginning sounds).

Cutting Built For Small Hands

Every cutting page carries 5 or more pieces, lined up edge to edge so each cut is one straight line.

Pre-cut them yourself for students who are not cutting independently yet.

Color Or Ink-Saver

Print the color pages, or use the ink-saver twins at the back on a photocopier — most picture-based

student pages have both (the craft and pure-coloring pages are color-only by design).

Who This Is For

Any teacher starting a self-contained preschool or early childhood special education classroom who

wants a whole week of circle time, ready to pull and go: one silly Thanksgiving theme, a different simple

activity every day.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A print-and-go weekly theme unit built around a silly, made-up Thanksgiving story — never a claim about any

real student's eating habits, and never a scary one: the turkey, corn and pumpkin are all drawn friendly, not

frightening. It is not a claim about any student's rate of progress, and it does not reproduce any book, its

text, or its artwork — only our own old lady, turkey and Thanksgiving-item pieces are drawn here.