Feature Your Float in a Thanksgiving Parade!

If you're like me, you wake up each Thanksgiving Day morning preparing to marvel at the artistic, fun and larger-than-life floats in the annual holiday parade in New York City!

In this one-time course, students will imagine, brainstorm and create their own 'float' for the Thanksgiving Day parade. The class will briefly discuss the definition of a float, the location and longevity of the parade, and how the look and size of the parade's balloons and floats have grown exponentially in size and detail over the years. Using creative dice prompts, each dot quantity will signify a themed prompt to encourage float brainstorming (i.e. One dot = Is your float a person/ animal or toy? Two dots = What does your float represent or teach? and so on) I will roll my teacher die, share my prompt and students will take some time brainstorming/ bulleting personal float details (***My Float Creation template will be shared/ available on the Classroom page for use with this important brainstorming tip).

Once die rolls/ prompts are completed, each student will choose an brainstorming/ bulleting element from each die prompt and organize their ideas into a four to five sentence paragraph, 'advertising' their float for the Thanksgiving parade! Bringing our floats 'to life' through drawing/ sketching will also be encouraged. Each student will be encouraged to share their featured float with our warm classroom community! (Note: along with ***My Float Creation template, a blank writing page with coordinating space to illustrate will also be provided on the Classroom page for print out and use!)

*Upon enrolling, students should have some prior knowledge/ visual recognition of the Thanksgiving parade for a smoother connection and transition to the featured float writing! Students should be able to write a sentence independently, but 'correct' spelling and wide vocabulary isn't necessary -- an important element to this class is the growth of creativity and descriptions!