Thanksgiving Adapted Song Book | Vocabulary Position Words | SLP SPED Autism

Thanksgiving Adapted Song Book | "We'll Be Eating on Thanksgiving" with Vocabulary, Music & Position Words (On/Off)

Warm up those singing voices and get your Thanksgiving appetites ready! This interactive adapted song book teaches Thanksgiving dinner vocabulary through music, sung to the familiar tune "I've Been Working on the Railroad." Includes a bonus on/off positional words sorting activity!

★ Perfect for: Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), Special Education Teachers, Autism Classrooms, Music Therapists, Self-Contained Classrooms, Resource Rooms, Life Skills Classes, Paraprofessionals, ABA Therapists, Early Childhood, PreK, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade

Sample Verse:

"We'll be eating on Thanksgiving,

Eating all the day.

We'll be eating on Thanksgiving,

The family's on their way!

Can't you smell the turkey cooking?

We'll start it early in the morn.

We will eat some mashed potatoes,

And lots of roasted corn!"

(Sung to the familiar tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad")

What's Included:

• 1 Adapted Song Book — "We'll Be Eating on Thanksgiving"
• Matching pieces for every page
• Bonus Sorting Activity — on/off positional words

Skills Targeted:

• Thanksgiving dinner vocabulary (turkey, potatoes, corn, family, etc.)
• Position words / prepositions — on and off (SLP IEP goal!)
• Singing along (familiar tune!)
• Vocabulary labeling
• Receptive and expressive language
• Predictable repetitive text
• AAC modeling
• Sorting and classification

How to Use:

Students match the pictures and sing along as the teacher or therapist sings the song and moves through the pages. After the song, students engage in a sorting activity focused on the positional words on and off.

Ways to Use:

• Whole group Thanksgiving circle time / morning meeting
• Thanksgiving thematic units
• Speech therapy (Thanksgiving vocabulary, position words!)
• Music therapy sessions
• Small group instruction
• 1:1 instruction
• AAC modeling
• ELL/ESL Thanksgiving vocabulary instruction
• Sing-along time during November

If your students enjoy this activity, there are many more adapted song books in this collection.

See Complete Adapted Song Book Collection

To see details about the best-value, Adapted Song Books Bundle please see the link below:

Adapted Song Books Bundle

For more fun, hands-on fall, turkey or Thanksgiving themed activities, please see the following links:

More Hands-On Fall Activities

Hands-On Turkey Activities

Hands-On Thanksgiving Activities