Smell that pumpkin pie with these Virtual or Distance Learning Thanksgiving ideas for your classroom

Maybe you’re in a classroom, homeschool, virtual or distance learning when Thanksgiving comes around this year….how to celebrate Thanksgiving virtual or have a social distance Thanksgiving for your students!

If you’re celebrating thanksgiving online this year or remotely with students here are some ideas to help!

Holidays and celebrations are cornerstones of the year in the classroom or at home. They give students something to look forward to.

Social distance or virtual Thanksgiving student ideas are not too tough as this holiday usually has wearing masks involved anyway!

If you love these ideas to keep students engaged you HAVE to grab this student engagement calendar with TONS more at your fingertips!

What are some virtual Thanksgiving or November celebration ideas for social distancing?

Virtual Thanksgiving classroom ideas do not have to be boring!

Virtual November Emoji Writing Activity

Imagine if you got this hilarious emoji writing prompt, “how do you feel about the spicy pancakes for Thanksgiving movement?“

What fun virtual Thanksgiving activity!

These Emoji writing prompts are hilarious, great to build inferences and perfect for virtual or printable in person!

Thanksgiving Virtual Activity – Would you Rather?!

Hilarious to play with students OR use as writing prompts, – this Thanksgiving Would You Rather version is awesome!

Easy to use digitally or in person for a great virtual November classroom activity!

Digital November Thanksgiving Quotation Mark Practice (with JOKES!)

These Quotation mark and joke practice is such a fun way to practice quotation marks – use this as a November virtual activity!

Get students laughing with jokes!!

Use the picture prompts to answer questions. Use with the whole class or individually and have students fill in!

November Thanksgiving Quotation Mark practice with JOKES are such a great way to keep students engaged!

Virtual Thanksgiving and November Classroom Activity – Plot Twist Writing

Plot Twists are SUPER writing activities!

Look below – click on the 1, 2, or 3 to change the writing prompt.

A teacher can designate an amount of time, or turn these on randomly and yell “Plot Twist” and the stories get altered.

You can grab all the November Plot Twists here or use this one embedded here for your students for FREE!

Even this Free virtual Thanksgiving Idea is great to do with students!!

Virtual November Read Alouds

Grab any of these books for a November read aloud on important topics like the election!

Election and voting picture books are another virtual idea for November!

Host a Kindness Quest

Focus on the gratitude part of Thanksgiving and find lots to be thankful for as a class and compile them virtually!

Try to come up with list of things you could do for others and work together to get them all crossed off!

Recipe Showdown and Swap

Have students show pictures of favorite dishes or describe them and try to guess what they are!

Share recipes and make a small cookbook that students work on writing, typing and compiling together!