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Tons of Halloween Freebies and Projects: Get Your Week Planned NOW

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:08:00 GMT

Halloween CAN be academic, too, you know! Here are some of my favorite things that I will be doing this week with my students who (regardless of my hopes and dreams!) will be focused on one thing and one thing only: Halloween!

Here are some links to some ACADEMIC Halloween freebies:

If you haven't seen my latest freebie, posted at Freebielicious, you must go check it out. My students were ecstatic with this project!

We always do a Halloween version of Going on a Bear Hunt, called Looking for Dracula (watch the awesome video below if you don't know this song) and so our writing is based on that after we complete our Draculas. Great use of vocabulary in this song!

Saving the best for last, my friend, Lisa B., has started her own blog, Mrs. Brooker's Kindergarten Kapers, and is giving away an Awesome (and I do mean jam packed, awesome) freebie for simply following her blog! You will definitely want to follow her blog (I have seen and used all of her stuff in my classroom!).

Be sure to follow Mrs. Miner's Kindergarten Monkey Business or LIKE it on Facebook (both available in left sidebar) so you never miss another FREEBIE or informative article.

I've been Booed and YOU get the treats!

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:33:00 GMT

What a great Halloween Idea Linky! I've been booed by Mrs. Goodwin at Learning and Growing in Grade 2. Her blog is super cute!

If you've been booed, copy and paste the above pic and these "rules" into your post.

1. Give a shout out to the blogger who booed you and link back to their site!

2. Share 3-5 October activities, books, products (yours or someone else),

or freebie(s) that you love!

3. Share the Boo love with 5 bloggers. Make sure you check this link to make sure you don't boo someone again:

http://toristeachertips.blogspot.com/2012/10/ive-been-booed-fun-october-linky.html

And don't forget to tell them that they have been BOOED!

So, here are my shares:

I'm loving this freebie from my friend Gina at Beach Sand and Lesson Plans. It's perfect for my fast finishers to keep in their folder as a go-to. It would also be fun at a center. Just click on the pix of the freebies to download them.

Next fun Freebie comes my buddy Dana at Third Grade Gridiron.

Halloween style addition and subtraction flash cards.

Check out her blog for some great verb freebies too!

I know this isn't Halloween related, but I couldn't resist. I've been cracking up since I saw this one. It's from Lindsey at The Teacher Wife.

Here's a great word work center to help kids determine complete sentences and fragments from my friend Sally at Elementary Matters

Be sure to check out her Golfing for Tens freebie on her blog - so fun!

And last but not least, my fantastic friend Fern from Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas has a great math freebie for you:

Ok, now I'm booing some of my blog buddies, so visit them soon to pick up some more treats!

So BOO to YOU:

Gina at Beach Sand and Lesson Plans

Jana from Thinking Out Loud

Layla from Fancy Free in Fourth

Debi at Just 4 Teachers

and Heidi at Globicate

Eight October Freebies!

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:19:00 GMT

Apparently I am a huge fan of Halloween! I hope you are too, because I have some treats to share. Luckily, we're pretty free to celebrate Halloween in my school. As long as we stay away from witches and ghosties we're pretty good. Just in case you missed any of my October freebies, I figured I'd combine them all together in one blog post. Yeah, I'm cool like that.

First up - Boo Bump Math Games. Click HERE for addition and HERE for multiplication.

How about some October Facts & Fun task cards? Just click HERE.

Next up, click HERE for Spooky Subtraction Slide.

Some October word shapes are waiting for you HERE. (Anyone know the right term for these, btw?)

Click HERE for a seasonal noun, verb, adjective sort.

You can find a Halloween version of my Weekly Word Wizard HERE.

A quick and easy Jack O'Lantern glyph is waiting HERE for you. No need to make tracers and round up tons of construction paper with this one - and they come out cute!

I've also got some un-free October resources available too. I'm just an October resource making ~~fool~~ machine! Someone stop me. No, really. Stop me.

Lots of fun activities to go along with one of my most favorite Halloween books! Click HERE to check it out.

This bad boy took me forever to complete! Turn one pumpkin into an incredible math and science investigation for your little nuggets. Just like Cinderella! Oh wait, not really. There's a pumpkin in that story somewhere... See it HERE.

I love this, if I do say so myself. Fun ways to incorporate some essential skills during the month. Use them at centers, for morning work, homework or just to focus your kids because they will be in school ON HALLOWEEN! Hello?! That day should definitely should be a no school kind of day. Click HERE to see this one.

Make your calendar math a little more interactive and space saving with my Smartboard version. You've got to have Smart Notebook software for this one. I think there's a way to import it to Promethean, but I can't tell you for sure how. Anyone know? Find that HERE.

And finally, add some fun to your writing center and make your life easier at the same time with my October writing prompt task cards. See those HERE.

Dang, I think it might have taken me longer to write this post, take the pictures and link them all up than it did to create the things! Well, then again maybe not. Don't forget about the giveaways that are still open! I'll be back real soon to announce the rest of the winners!

I'm Ready for Tomorrow and a Freebie for YOU!

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:17:00 GMT

I know it is kind of late for anyone to go running to a store to make these, BUT you can still pin it in your halloween file on Pinterest (or just on your hard drive for next year). These were so simple to make and not very expensive either. I made them for my kiddos teachers and my teacher "peeps". They are supposed to have a tag that says something along this line: Marshmallow Treats, Only for my Favorite Peeps. BUT, I had to draw the line somewhere (it is a line that is often hard for me to draw).

They are simply peeps on wooden skewers. I got pretzel bags (any store that sells cake decorating/candy making stuff) and silver twist ties. I am thinking these would make great craft fair fillers and stocking stuffers because we all know and love the yearround peeps! Make sure you "pin" these for next year or for the next holiday season anyway! I know that I was inspired somewhere, out there on the world wide web!

We will be doing a Halloween Phonemic Awareness Activity. I love these boards because they are so simple, yet the children really love them. I always coordinate something fun with the particular board we are using (like tomorrow I will likely use either candy corn or candy pumpkins). All you have to do is choose a phonemic skill (beginning, ending sounds, syllables, rhyming) you are working on. I will use rhyming as the example for the board below:

So, you will think of words that rhyme with the pictures above and call them out. Students have to decide which picture it rhymes with and put the "marker" (candy corn) in the correct box. I start with focussing on just one skill, but then, as the children get better at this game, I amp it up and switch back and forth between skills. This is a great listening activity for them to hear and compare the sounds and make up of words. These skills are so important for beginning readers and often get overlooked with the ever rising standards in kindergarten. These are the skills that, if solidified orally, will allow young students to flourish as readers and writers when the time comes. Grab the google doc here so you can have a little bit of learning fun with your kiddos tomorrow! I have a set of these boards at my TpT store and they all come with lists of words you can use for each category of rhyming, syllabication, beginning and ending sounds (so you don't even have to think, which I always appreciate!).

We will also be doing my version of Witch's Brew (non edible)--check out this post for that freebie, as well as Rachelle's edible version of a Witch's Brew (from http://whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com ). We collected the ingredients from the parents and will "mix" it up in brand new HUGE witch cauldron that I found yesterday at Big Lots for $5.00.
To wrap up the day, we will go to a kindergarten neighbor's movie room for a showing of Spookley the Square Pumpkin! If you don't know of this book, it is a great social book that demonstrates the benefits of being different to children.

Come Get Your FREE Witch's Brew Magical Demonstration

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:51:00 GMT

This is an activity I do with my students EVERY year. It is a poem (I did not write the poem, if anyone knows who did, I would love to give him/her credit. I found it on teachers.net years ago) that a witch (you) reads to your students in your best cackling voice. As you read, you add "ingredients" to your brew that represent the items in the poem. This demonstration is best done on an old-fashioned overhead projector in a clear dish so that the audience can see what happens to the brew as you add ingredients. The end appears magical for the children and provides them with a halloween school memory that will be hard to forget! Grab it here FREE!

Some Spooktacular Halloween Ideas

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:18:00 GMT

I posted a new freebie to my TPT store last night. My kids are so excited to use these Halloween writing prompts. Come on over to my blog to get the link to download your own copy of my Halloween Writing Prompts and Halloween Stationery.

Happy Haunting!

Jen

Come on over...

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:53:00 GMT

Stop on by and grab a free copy of a graphing activity I created using BooMallows and read about my latest pumpkin glyph pack! If you get there fast, there might be a surprise for you!!!

Pumpkin Fun! A glyph and a freebie!

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:46:00 GMT

We are beginning a study of pumpkins and their life cycle this week. Pumpkins make me happy, but sad as well, because that means the snow is going to start flying soon. Any other northerners feel the same way?

Click on the picture below to see the latest glyph I just posted.

Happy Pumpkin Days!

Graphics courtesy of Scrappin Doodles.

While you are in my TPT store, don't forget to grab a free copy of the graphing activity I made using BooMallows! If you download it, please kindly leave feedback...it warms my heart!

The first 3 comments I receive on this post will snag a copy of my pumpkin glyph pack for free! Just be sure to leave your email address so I can get it to you right away!

Spooky Sorting

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:22:00 GMT

Hey Friends!
Halloween frenzy is in full force in room 852. I can't complain though, because I totally started it. I feel pretty fortunate because our district and especially our school has a pretty lax policy about Halloween displays and candy consumption (I'm enjoying it for now, who knows what tomorrow brings!)

I tend to stay away from ghosts or witches, but pumpkins, skeletons and bats are fair game. Today we did a fun activity to reinforce parts of speech recognition. My kids are having some difficulty recognizing and categorizing them when they are in a group of mixed words. We've been working on them with these centers and continued practicing with today's seasonal color, cut and paste activity.

I typed up some Halloween words and mixed them up on a grid. Some of the words are a bit challenging, but they were eager to read and talk about them after they realized they weren't just an ordinary set of words. Words like fangs and zombie usually perk them up!

First we read the words together and discussed the meaning. Then I let them work with partners to try to categorize them as noun, verb or adjective using an N, A or V in each box.

Then we went over the list again and made any necessary adjustments before it was time to color, cut, paste. I was so surprised at the creativity they used in gluing down the pieces! I didn't really give specific directions besides making sure they all fit before they glued. Some of them went with traditional straight lines, but some took a pretty artistic angle...even jazzing up the title!

Next time I'd give them a bigger piece of black paper, but I was trying to conserve. Our construction paper budget (along with everything else) is EXTREMELY limited. Click on the image below to download a free copy if you'd like to do this with your kiddies. This would actually make a good center activity as well.

Be sure to check back tomorrow for some mummy fun including my PRIZE winning Just Say No door decorating contest entry!

A Pumpkin Freebie Perfect for October

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:22:00 GMT

I just ordered 7 pumpkins for my class. Why seven, you ask? Well, you'll just have to come over to my blog to find out why. While you're visiting, be sure to pick up my Pumpkin Pie for All freebie.

Happy Friday!

Jen