Albuquerque Turkey Song Lyrics and Worksheet

- Grades
- Grades 1–3, Elementary
- Pages
- 4
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Holiday & Seasonal, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Creative Arts, Music
- Topic
- Thanksgiving Song, Albuquerque Turkey
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
Product description
From the author
This resource will allow your students to enjoy a fun holiday song titled "Albuquerque Turkey." If you want your students to follow along, you can print off these lyric sheets. They come in color and black/white. When you finish enjoying the song, your students can complete their worksheet. There is a box for them to draw their own turkey and complete this sentence frame: "My Albuquerque turkey is so happy in his bed, because for our Thanksgiving dinner, we had ______________ instead!"
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Sing or recite the "Albuquerque Turkey" lyrics along with the familiar Clementine tune.
Complete a written sentence about their own Thanksgiving meal, following the song's closing sentence pattern.
Teaching tips
Sing the song to the familiar Clementine tune before handing out the worksheet, since the printable's sentence directly continues the song's final lines.
Use the worksheet blank as a quick individual writing prompt about each student's own Thanksgiving meal.
Invite students to draw a turkey in the response-page box before completing the meal sentence.
Skills covered
Song-based rhyme recognition — students sing along to rhyming Thanksgiving-themed lyrics set to a familiar tune.
Sentence completion — students fill in the worksheet blank to name their own Thanksgiving food, following the song's sentence pattern.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
How does the meal-writing prompt connect to the Albuquerque Turkey song?
The worksheet adapts the song's closing meal-swap pattern into a blank where learners name a food from their own Thanksgiving dinner.
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Resource details
Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Thanksgiving vocabulary
Rhyme and song lyrics
Sentence completion
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