From now until Thanksgiving, Colban will have Autumn and Farm themed activities in addition to his regular work, and also Halloween activities until the end of this month. Here are some of the highlights from the past week:
I love this pumpkin freebie from Kay Sommer! There are lots of options for differentiating this activity, but we just stuck with the simplest option - counting to 10. Colby traced the numbers on the strips, then we cut them apart, fastened them at each end with brads, added the leaf and a bit of curly green ribbon, and . . .
. . . ta-da! A beautiful little 3-d counting pumpkin!
Colby is quite pleased with it, and I love how it looks in the classroom. Here's where you can grab a copy of this fabulous freebie: Let's Count on a Pumpkin! {FREE}
We also had a lot of fun with this Ten Little Ghosts Number Order Freebie by Crayons and Curls.
We cut out the ghosts, and Colby glued them in the correct order on a sentence strip.
There was one blank ghost, so Colby wrote his name on it and stuck it on the bottom :-).
He did more cut-and-paste addition problems from this activity packet (more about this in the previous post - check it out!)
This FREE farm animal graphing activity is from Teaching With Nancy. There are 3 different farm animal data maps and corresponding recording sheets included! (The data sheets are actually 8.5" x 11" - I printed them out half size to save ink, which I never seem to have enough of!)
Here's a closer look at the recording sheet . . .
. . . and the data mat. Colby will be completing the other two in the coming weeks.
This super-cute Spooky Ten Frame Write the Room activity is by Marsha McGuire. There are two sets of cards and two recording sheets - one for numbers 1-10, and the other for numbers 11-20. We did them both, on different days. Colby loves it when I hide the cards around our classroom like Easter eggs.
He finds them all and brings them back to his seat to complete the activity.
Another great freebie from Teaching With Nancy! You can get a set of these farm themed count-and-clip cards here: Farm: 0-10 Counting Clip Circles. (I took lots of pictures of Colby using these, but for some reason they all came out blurry.)
Here's our craftivity for the Letter I! To make the icicles, Colby squeezed a lot of Elmer's glue onto the paper, and then we tipped the paper upright just enough for the glue to start running down. When Colby was satisfied that the drips looked like icicles, he added silver glitter. When it dried, he finished off the wintry look with sparkly snowflake stickers.
This batty rhyming activity is a freebie from Can Do Kinders! Colby sorted the bats with rhyming pictures on their wings onto one mat, and the ones that didn't rhyme onto another. This was actually a little trickier for him than I expected! We'll just have to keep practicing.
You can download a copy of this free activity HERE.
I wish I'd printed off these free alphabet pattern block cards sooner! Colban just doesn't get sick of them, and they're an excellent way to practice letter formation.
You can download these HERE, from Confessions of a Homeschooler.
How cute is this interactive song book from Sprinkles to Kindergarten?!
As we read the poem "5 Little Pumpkins" and as Colby turns the pages, he gets to see the pumpkins disappear one by one!
He loves to lay on the carpet and flip through it again and again. You can get a copy here:
For this Beginning Sounds Matching activity from Fall Fun: Math and Literacy Activities by KinderKids, Colban matched the pictures on the bales of hay to the appropriate letter scarecrows.
He completed the recording sheets, and of course, he had to color them! This packet has 5 different autumn themed activities, and like everything in the KinderKids TpT store, it costs only $1!
Colby used these beautiful harvest themed alphabet cards from Rakin' in the Learning (more about this in the previous post) to match upper- and lowercase letters.
We read ABCs of Halloween
by Patricia Reeder Eubank. Aren't the illustrations just beautiful?
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