Are you looking for a fun activity to make maps more meaningful to your kindergarten class? This Halloween social studies activity is perfect!Your students will LOVE creating their own trick or treat maps! It's a great way to make reading and creating maps meaningful to your kindergarten class.You will need:9x12 green construction paperBlack construction paper cut into stripsColorful scraps of construction paperCandy environmental printScissors and glueMap keyCreate your Trick or Treat MapsFor ...
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Bat Week Activities and Crafts for Kindergarten and 1st Grade
We're going BATTY in kindergarten! This is one of my favorite nonfiction units for kindergarten and first grade because it's full of fun bat week activities and crafts!Doing a bat nonfiction unit is perfect for October because it gives you some creepy fun whether you can celebrate Halloween or not.Plus, what kid wouldn't love to learn all about bats? Having a bat week is an easy way to engage your students in October.Bat Research for KindergartenWe start by reading all about bats with this ...
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Free Creepy Carrots Book Activities for K-2
If you haven't ready the book Creepy Carrots with your class yet, you need to! It's hilarious and so much fun to read! These free Creepy Carrots book activities are perfect for comprehension and are an easy follow up activity.Creepy Carrots CraftI love making this creepy carrots craft because they all turn out so unique.I gave students the pieces of paper and then just told them the shapes to cut. They didn't have a template so they all turned out different.If you wanted a template to make it ...
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Creepy Comparing | Kindergarten Math Game for October
We LOVE to play whole group math games as a part of our math routine in kindergarten. The only thing that can make it better? A Halloween math game!This Halloween math game is great for practicing comparing quantities and numbers and building number sense. It would be perfect for Preschool, Pre-K, or Kindergarten!Creepy Comparing Numbers Math Game | How to Play:This is one of the easiest math games! I drew faces on plastic cups as our “ghosts.” You will also need a dice.Two students took turns ...
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Easy Alphabet Intervention Activities to Add to Your Daily Routine
"My students come in not knowing any letters and I don't know how to get them to where they need to be. There's never enough time for alphabet intervention in our day!"Is that something you've found yourself saying? I'll be honest; I've definitely said that before.My students usually come in with no letter recognition. Many can't even recognize their name. So how do we get them to where they need to be?The answer is NOT to slow your phonics instruction down. In fact, doing so would be a ...
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October Read Alouds and Book Activities
October is the month when things can start to feel a little blah. Keeping students interested can be a little more difficult. These October read alouds are a great way to engage your students, even in a blah month!I also created book activities to go along with each of these books. The October reading unit contains EVERYTHING you need to teach whole group literacy in October!This blog post contains Amazon affiliate links.Fire! Fuego! Brave Bomberos Book ActivitiesFire! Fuego! Brave Bomberos is a ...
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