Color By Number Turkey Freebie

Turkey day will be here soon! What better way to put your student's excitement to good use than with a
Color by Number Turkey? For an added twist, give each student a dice so they can roll and cover each part of the turkey.

This Color by Number Turkey is yours to download by FREE when you stop by the Kinder-Craze blog. 

Have a great night everyone!

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Firefighter Color by Number

October is Fire Prevention month. If you need a quick activity to enhance your fire safety unit, this Color by Number Firefighter might be just what you're looking for!

Cut this single page printout in half to create two half-page coloring pages. My students love coloring the small pages and I love that they are engaged in learning their color words.

Stop by the Kinder-Craze blog to grab your freebie. While you're there, be sure to check out a few additional resources and activities for teaching fire safety in your classroom. 

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Bats & Spiders - Oh My!

I love October! I love the cool autumn air....ok we'll let's be honest - I live in Texas so I really need to say cool-er as in it's not 100+ anymore, not really cool! Anyways - I love it -- pumpkins, Halloween, creepy critters.....

Speaking of creepy critters, let's talk about bats and spiders! I love teaching my kinder kiddos about bats and spiders. In fact, it's the very first big nonfiction unit we do each year. Kids are inherently interested in bats and spiders and they have very definite opinions about both. So, I love to capture their attention and take advantage of their interests. Ah - yes! I'm a sneaky teacher!! :)

Here is a freebie for you. It's all about bats and spiders! I've included some graphic organizers, surveys, and graphs -- a great supplement for any bats and spiders unit! I hope you like it!

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Roll Like a Pumpkin and Other Fun Movements!

I love anything fall themed, especially cute cut outs!

Aren't they cute?! 

I also love getting my students to move around in creative ways!

I put the two together, and voila!

You could stick these in a cute little basket and use them when you need little "brain breaks" throughout the day. It's also a great way to throw in verbs and nouns, and fall vocabulary. 

Head on over to my blog to download the little labels!

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Halloween Emergent Reader

Boo!  Halloween is on it's way!  I made a little Halloween Emergent Reader, that uses the sentence stem, "I see a _______."  It's great for teaching the little ones how to follow along, and read a book of their own!

Head on over to my blog to get a copy!

Happy Halloween!

~Michelle Griffo

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Celebrate Johnny Appleseed's Birthday With a FREE Apple Directed Drawing Activity Kit!

There are so many benefits to guiding your students through drawing!  But, don't stop there...once students have done their drawing, be sure to explore your options and see how you extend their drawings into the realm of literacy (Hint: the possibilities are ENDLESS!).  Swing on into Mrs. Miner's Monkey Business to grab your free Directed Drawing guide:

 

 

 

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Spider Mini Unit

Even though I am not a big fan of spiders, I sure do love teaching with them! 

I created a fun little mini unit based around a fun spider book that integrates graphing, writing, crafts and math!

Head on over to my blog to check it out!

Happy Fall!

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Fall Sequencing Sheet

Want to grab this fun sequencing sheet for the book, 

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves?

 Click the sequencing sheet picture above or {here} now.

Mary Amoson, Sharing Kindergarten http://sharingkindergarten.com/ http://www.facebook.com/SharingKindergarten

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Apple Alphabet Cards

I LOVE starting the year with an apple unit!  You can do so many things with apples and it's a great theme to tie into all subject areas!  Here is an Alphabet Card Freebie to use in a pocket chart.  The kids can place them in ABC order or match the upper and lower case.  :)

Head over to my blog to pick it up! 

Michelle

Apples and ABC's

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Write Me Three Freebie

I have a FUN back to school freebie that is perfect for your writing station or center.

  Click on the picture or {here} to grab this freebie.

Here is a sample word wall and sheet from my newest Write Me Three pack!

Mary Amoson, Sharing Kindergarten http://sharingkindergarten.com/ http://www.facebook.com/SharingKindergarten

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Swallowed some Leaves Freebies!

It's Erin from Creating and Teaching bringing you 2 freebie activities to go with the text, "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed some Leaves"

I am a huge fan of these books! Their repetitive text is perfect for my little guys and makes them so darn fun to read! If you arrived to this post via my blog, thanks for coming over to grab the freebies! Be sure to look around and see what other goodies you can find for free while you are here!

If you did not arrive at this post via my blog, be sure to go there next to check out my activity cards for this book as well!

Thanks for checking them out and I hope you enjoy the freebies! :)

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Take Me Out To The Ball Game!!

Take me out to the ball game!! I know that it should be TURKEY TIME, but I just had to make something with this adorable baseball set from my good friend Nikki (Melonheadz). 

I use SF Reading Street. So, this freebie contains all 40 words from that program (Kindergarten) You can grab your copy by clicking the picture below!! PLAY BALL! :-) 

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Fall Leaves Letter Match

My students love practicing their uppercase and lowercase letter matching using these fun trees! We started the year with this apple tree. I cut out each apple and my students have to cover the apples on the tree with the correct lowercase letter. It's a fun go-to file folder game when they finish an activity, or a great center rotation activity!

 Now that Fall is in full swing {kind of...it's still 90 degrees here!}, we've moved on to our fall tree. Now my students match the lowercase leaves to the upper case leaves in the tree!

 I have another fun tree ready for winter time...can you guess what it is?!

You can pick up these freebies at my TpT store!

Apple Tree Letter Match

Fall Leaves Letter Match

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