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Here are the 12 words from the three Thanksgiving Holiday puzzles used in contextual sentences.
- Pilgrimage - 1. The people who established Plymouth Colony in 1620 made a PILGRIMAGE from England on the Mayflower.
- Harvest - 2. After toiling in the fields, is it any wonder farmers enthusiastically celebrate the crop HARVEST?
- Blessing - 3. Americans should count our BLESSINGS because we live in a free country with an abundance of resources.
- Cornucopia - 4. The beautiful CORNUCOPIA as a centerpiece in our dining table symbolizes the bounty of our fertile land.
- Cranberry - 5. A turkey sandwich on dark rye, loaded with lots of tasty CRANBERRY sauce, is the perfect lunch for me!
- Stuffing - 6. Grandma showed me how to make her famous, delicious STUFFING to put inside my 21 pound turkey.
- Dressing - 7. Imagine! My brother puts thousand island DRESSING and jalapenos all over his sweet potatoes and peas.
- Giblet - 8. My family pours piping hot gravy with diced GIBLETS into mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving.
- Feast - 9. To include every family member for the Thanksgiving FEAST, we needed three big tables plus highchairs.
- Celebration - 10. Isn't it special to hold a CELEBRATION where family and friends can come together to enjoy food and relax?
- Gobble - 11. We know the barks and meows of dogs and cats, but the GOBBLE of a turkey is a very strange sound.
- Observation - 12. The children made the OBSERVATION that because everyone was happy, it was the best holiday ever!
We have five other exercises using these same 12 to 24 words plus some other "Turkeyday" fun:
Thanksgiving "Fill-in-the-Blanks" Thanksgiving "Definition Match"
"TurkeyDay" Word Find
"TurkeyDay" Crossword
3 Thanksgiving Day Word Puzzles
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Don't forget to complete other activities and educational exercises from our current Session #139:Interactive grade level puzzles: ["S139 Level 1"] -- ["S139 Level 2"] -- ["S139 Level 3"]
Fill-in-the-Blanks: ["S139Level 1-FITB"] -- ["S139Level 2-FITB"] -- ["S139Level 3-FITB"]
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Is It True or False?: ["S139Level 1 T/F"] -- ["S139Level 2 T/F"] -- ["S139Level 3 T/F"]
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