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Albuquerque Turkey Song Lyrics and Worksheet

Students sing or read Albuquerque Turkey, then complete a short writing response about their own Thanksgiving meal.
Grades
Grades 1–3, Elementary
Pages
4
File type
PDF
Preparation
Print ready

Updated Nov 11, 2021

Subject
Holiday & Seasonal, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Creative Arts, Music
Topic
Thanksgiving Song, Albuquerque Turkey
Resource types
Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
Preparation
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Product description

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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!"

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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.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Thanksgiving vocabulary

  • Rhyme and song lyrics

  • Sentence completion

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