Thanksgiving Adverbs

Exactly how grateful is your family, anyway?

ADDED November 25, 2009

kids activities

Length: A few minutes.

Parental Involvement: Explain the concept of adverbs -- think up some with your kids.

Kids Should Be Able to: Think and use words.

Here at Today is Fun, we do love kids to have fun each and every day, but we also try to sneak some learning into every activity. Today we'd like to sneak some learning into Thanksgiving.

Today we'd like to discuss the concept of adverbs. Do your kids know what those are?

Adverbs are words that describe how an action is done.

How do we look forward to Thanksgiving dinner? Eagerly. How do we cook for
Thanksgiving dinner? Busily.

(Most adverbs, you can tell our kids, end in -ly. But not all.)

Adverbs also can "add more meaning" to other words. For instance, if you and your kids are feeling grateful this Thanksgiving, an adverb or two would help you guys express exactly how you're feeling grateful. Here's an example: I am seriously and incredibly grateful for the existence of my beautiful wife and family.

So this Thanksgiving, try to work in some adverbs. Have you and your kids discussed things about which they're grateful? We hope so! But now, it's time to add the "how" they feel grateful. Sit down with them and ask how they feel grateful about those things.

Does a kid in your house feel very grateful? Very is an adverb!

Really grateful? Adverb!

Super duper grateful? Yes, technically an adverb, too.

If your kids are seeming to grasp this concept of adverbs, you guys could sit down and try to think up all the adverbs you can. Hungrily? Solemnly? Exactly? Of the adverbs, you guys listed, which can apply to Thanksgiving and feeling grateful?

We are insanely crazily appreciative that you (even occasionally) visit and read our blog, Today is Fun. We hope you are incredibly, pleasantly capable of taking our ideas and making them into fun, real world activities for your family!

Happy (early) Thanksgiving, people!

(We'd like to express our gratitude -- sincerely -- to xybermatthew for the turkey dinner photo above.)