Halloween Hat Freebie

Here's a free hat that you can use in your Halloween centers on Thursday. It includes an ABC pattern that students can read and label.

http://www.kinderalphabet.com/free-halloween-hat/

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Pumpkin Sight Word Concentration

Here is a fun way to review sight words. These cards can be used to create a concentration game during your Pumpkin or Halloween thematic unit. Make two copies of the sight word pages to create your game. Simply print and laminate for durability.  It can be used during your small group time or in a literacy center to practice these 40 sight words.

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Techie Tip for Computer Time

Here is a freebie idea you are going to LOVE for computer time in your classroom.

 

What is it? Why is it special?

Why are you about to love me so much for changing computer time in your classroom...

{yeah, you are REALLY going to love me that much...}

I know how you can use this freebie sheet to help your students select just these activities during computer time WITHOUT you being next to them or typing in a www.whatever...

And I also know how to lock them into this so they can't get past this screen...

Click on the picture above or {here} to grab this freebie and get the directions.

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

Get a signature like this. CLICK HERE.  

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Halloween Safety {interactive mini book}

Here's a fun little interactive book to use with your kiddos before Halloween! It covers all the safety tips that are important to making trick-or-treating fun and safe!

It's interactive in that each page requires the students to complete a task!

 {Do you like my princess costume? ;) My students draw WAY better than I do!}

Head on over to my TpT store to pick up this freebie!

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Kinder "Count" Number Puzzles

We've been working on not only identifying numbers 1-10, but also putting them in correct number order. It's an important skill for pre-k and kinder. So, here is a fun pack of number puzzles to liven up your math center time right before Halloween.

I hope you like them!

Click HERE to grab!

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Yuck Soup!

Here with another Halloween alternative that your kids will love!  Yuck Soup!  

Literacy based with a writing and math piece!  

So we start by reading Joy Crowley's book Yuck Soup!  It's a cute LITTLE story about some monster-y looking creatures who make some pretty yucky soup!  It's out of print but I bet if you looked around you could find one or they are fairly cheap online!  

Next we make our own Yuck Soup.  I have sent home these letters about a week before so everyone has something yummy to add to the Yuck Soup.  We take turns adding giving everyone a chance to pour in their part to the soup.  

I scoop the snack into paper cups for the kids or just put on paper towels for them.  While they munch we do our story!  I will go around and write the word for the kids usually, but you could put the words on the board and have them write.  I just find it's much easier for them to reread the story in the library if it is written in non-kindergarten writing!  While they are snacking and waiting for me to get to them, the students are coloring in the page and adding what they added to the soup to their picture!

I staple them all together, add a cover page, and the students now have another class book to read!  

We will also go in and graph what our soup has in it!  

Another non-Halloween alternative for your classroom during this fun time of year!  And it's free!  Click here to download!   (I have done this on Halloween for many years but now really enjoy doing our pumpkin book reports instead which is also a freebie!!) 

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Pumpkin Character Book Reports!

Fall is such a fun time to mix books and pumpkins and family time! 

Stop by to see how I use this unit to add some fun to the day on October 31st and to see some additional sample pictures!  

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Volunteer Organization

Happy Fall Y'all!! This year I am BLESSED with several parents that love to volunteer. Which makes me very happy! I have gone years that I have had 1 parent that can come in and help. Now, I know that some of you may not have ANY and I am sorry. So don't be jelly when I tell you that I have a parent coming in almost EVERY day this month. Say what?! YUP! You heard that right. This allows me to do so many things in my classroom that I may not have been able to do without their help. 

I always make a calendar at the end of the previous month to send home with all volunteers. It includes volunteer name and time they are coming.

I have some "Thank You" cards set out with a little treat for my volunteers.

I always include directions on each project. 

I have also included a friendly reminder. You could send this home a few days before your volunteer was to come in. 

You can grab this volunteer freebie by clicking the cover page below. 

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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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Free Monster Numbers

Here is an activity to practice number identification and sequencing. It's a monster theme which is especially fun for this time of year. Hop on over to my blog to download this freebie and an emergent reader:)

   

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Halloween is fast approaching and next stop: Thanksgiving! I love this time of year. I'm not super big on Halloween, but I love November! One of my favorite things to do is go to the pumpkin patch with my kiddos......yep the whole 6 pack :0)

What a wonderful time! Here is a cute emergent reader for your littles ones - it's filled with lots of beginner sight words and color words! - It's perfect for little readers.....plus tons of fun!!

Click HERE for your book!

(It prints making 2 books :0)

Please don't forget to make your way over to my blog too :0) I'd love to see you visit!

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