Freaky Friday Week 4- Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid Of Anything!

This year there are 5 Fridays in October, so you will be treated to 'spook'-tacular deals for 5 weeks!

The deals started on October 2nd and will run each Friday through October 30th!

Here is how it works:

Each Friday the participating sellers will select one product from their store to mark down to just $1 for the day!

How will you find these products?

There are 2 ways:

1. Type freakyfriday into the TPT search engine

2. Click the links to the participating stores in the linky at the end of this post and it will take you directly to that store's $1 deal for the day!  

You can also click the first link- it will bring you to all the $1 deals of the day!

So what will you find from me this week?

I am happy to offer a somewhat BRAND NEW resource...

If your students are anything like mine, they L-O-V-E this story

 by Linda Williams!

So I created a pack to go along with the story to help with sequencing and retelling!

This Pack Includes:

*Directions for each component of the pack

*Listening Response Printable

*Sequencing Printable/Pieces

*14 Full Color Sequencing Cards (and a set in black and white)

*Photo instructions for folding the reader

*Full Color 8-page Foldable Emergent Reader (and a copy in black and white)

*Story Sequencing/Retelling Crown

*Build A Scarecrow Activity & Writing Prompt (in both color and b&w)

This pack is normally $4, so by purchasing it tomorrow, October 23rd, you'll save $3! 

If you do decide to read this story to your class, and have access to the internet, this is a great video to play for the kids!  It puts the book to music and the kids will love to chime in for all the 'action' parts!

If you and your students LOVE this pack, be sure to check out my 'Old Lady Swallowed' series that contains similar items to complement each of those books!

Ready To Find All the $1 Deals for Week 4 of Freaky Friday?

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Be sure to check back next week to find out what the last $1 deal (Week 5) will be!

Have a fabulous weekend!

Until next post,

Pumpkin 'Picking' For ABC's!

While scouting Pinterest for some fun fall ideas, I stumbled upon this ABC center idea shared by Little Miss Glamour Goes To Kindergarten

I loved the idea of the kids pumpkin 'picking' for letters but we have only covered 13 letters so far, so I had to make my own printable

so that I could make sure they were working with and practicing the letters and sounds we have covered so far.

I haven't decided if I am going to have them use BINGO daubers to mark the letters they 'pick' and ID

 OR print the sheet on orange cardstock/laminate and have them use candy corn to cover the letters

and then I came across these foam shapes and Halloween themed erasers I had in my October bucket

that I could use too!

I am also toying with the idea of giving them connecting cubes and having them stack the cubes as they pull the same letter to count and see which letter they pulled the most.  

(It would also make a great 'partner game' using it as a 'BUMP'-type activity!)

As I was making it I thought 'I really should have a follow-up/extension activity for my early finishers' (and those that are ready for a bit more of a challenge) so I made some letter mats

They will 'pick' from the pumpkin, ID the letter (and sound) and see if it goes with any of the pictures they have on their mat (or have all the mats out on the table and they could find the one it goes to).

After they place the magnetic letter on the mat they then use a dry erase marker (or crayon- LOVE THEM!) to practice writing the letter

This would be a great way to differentiate for different learners too- the pumpkins of letters would be on the table to share, yet different students could be working on different skills!  You could even challenge them to ID the ending sound!

AND even better...these mats could be used for anytime during the year because they are not seasonally based!  Put letters in other seasonal buckets and containers to continue practicing throughout the year!

And as I finished printing all of my mats and prepping my center for next week, I thought...'I bet there are other teachers out there that also found this pin but couldn't use the printable 'as is' because of letters they have covered/not so far' SO I made the printable editable so that you can make it to match what your students are working on!

It will open in PowerPoint.  Simply click in the text box and type the letters you need!

I used KG Red Hands font- it is free to download for personal use.

You can use whatever font you are comfortable with and/or have access to!

WORKING ON SIGHT WORDS (or CVC, CVCe, etc):

Type words on the printable and then cut up some words to throw in the pumpkin (or write words on foam pumpkin or seasonal cut-outs)!

Kids pull the word, read it, find it on the printable and mark it- just as they would do with the letters!

Like the picture/letter mats too?  No worries- I included them in the FREE DOWNLOAD too!

So all you need to do is grab some:

*plastic pumpkins (or witch cauldrons!) (I found mine at Dollar Tree)

*magnetic or foam letters

*daubers, candy corn, themed confetti, themed foam shapes, themed erasers, and/or connecting cubes

*free printables 

and you will be all set for a fun ABC Center for next week!

Want to remember this for next year?  Here is a pin:

And if you are still searching for some Halloween fun for next week, you can find some rhyming activities, emergent readers, craftivities, read/count the room, playdough mats, math printables and more in my TpT Store via the 'Halloween' custom category!

Hope you have a 'spook'-tacular week!

Be sure to swing by on Thursday to read all about what I will be putting up for this week's freakyfriday $1 deal- only 2 more weeks of deals!

Until next post,

Stained Glass Pumpkins

Need an EASY pumpkin project to decorate your classroom door and/or windows?

Last week we made these 'stained glass' pumpkins:

They were SUPER easy to make!

Last month we made 'stained glass' apples using contact paper:

but for some reason the contact paper was not sticking to the paper and I wound up having to glue each piece of contact paper to the construction paper!

So this month I chose to use the 'wax paper' method!

It is SUPER easy..I promise!

First I gave each kid a piece of wax paper.  I didn't measure, just pulled a piece I thought would be a good size and cut.

They used a black crayon to draw a big circle/oval on the paper.  I told them the crayon was going to 'fight' the paper, so they would need to go over it a few times!

I had cut out squares of tissue paper in varying shades of orange and yellow and had them ready.

They squeezed glue into the circle/oval and stuck the tissue paper on top.

Until all the open space was filled

As you can see the shapes varied from student to student!  Some chose to make it monochromatic and others went for the color 'collage!' 

We let them dry overnight.

I was originally going to have them cut out the orange 'skin' but then thought it might be hard for them to 'judge' the size of the middle they would need, so I pre-cut the paper.

They put glue on the orange paper

and then stuck it to their tissue paper collage

and laid them out to dry for a bit

Once they were dry it was time to trim the wax paper

We talked about how to use the orange paper as the 'line' to follow when cutting the wax paper.

Once they were trimmed I gave them brown and green rectangles for making a stem and leaf

And they could use a pipe cleaner (wrapped around their finger) as a vine if they chose to do so

Many took the information they learned about pumpkin leaves very seriously and made sure their leaves were 'pointy!'

And now they are a beautiful display of fall fun that greet anyone that come to our door!

We will probably make turkeys in a similar way for next month, although these could go all through November and still be seasonally appropriate!

(I know some people choose to do a glue wash over the tissue paper to seal the pieces- I chose to leave the pieces as they were, but that is always an option for a different look too!)

Until next post,

Freaky Friday Week 3! Fall Themed Sight Word Puzzles!

This year there are 5 Fridays in October, so you will be treated to 'spook'-tacular deals for 5 weeks!

The deals started on October 2nd and will run each Friday through October 30th!

Here is how it works:

Each Friday the participating sellers will select one product from their store to mark down to just $1 for the day!

How will you find these products?

There are 2 ways:

1. Type freakyfriday into the TPT search engine

2. Click the links to the participating stores in the linky at the end of this post and it will take you directly to that store's $1 deal for the day!  

You can also click the first link- it will bring you to all the $1 deals of the day!

So what will you find from me this week?

I am happy to offer another BRAND NEW resource...

This pack has:

*20 Fall Themed Sight Word Puzzles 

(a mixture of apples, leaves, fall, pumpkins, scarecrows, Halloween and Thanksgiving)

Including:

6 '2 letter' words (is, my, to, we, in, of)

6 '3 letter'  words (and, for, see, the, you, are)

6 '4 letter' words (here, play, said, have, like, this)

2 '5 letter' words (funny, where)

Here is a graphic to show how it works and what is included:

My kindergarten students and kindergarten son took them for a 'test drive' and they worked out GREAT!

Students cut on the dotted lines

Then build the word

And once they have it correct they glue it

Then they practice writing the word

And can color the picture

You can get a FREE SAMPLE of this pumpkin 'see' printable by downloading the product preview!

The other component of the pack is that it has the puzzles in full color!

So students can practice building the words either before or after completing the printable for added practice!

And then check the two for accuracy

My son actually ASKED to do a second one!

Concerned that your students need to practice different words than the ones provided in the pack?

NO PROBLEM!

The entire pack is editable too!

It has 20 blank puzzles (black and white) and 20 blank picture cards (in color) for you to edit in PowerPoint!

You can use them to make ANY word you are working on between 2 and 5 letters long!

This pack is normally $4, so by purchasing it tomorrow, October 16th, you'll save $3! 

They go GREAT with my other sight word resources that can be found HERE! 

Ready To Find All the $1 Deals for Week 3 of Freaky Friday?

An InLinkz Link-up

Be sure to check back next week to find out what Week 4's deal will be!

Have a fabulous weekend!

Until next post,