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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The Biggest Pumpkin Ever plus FREEBIE

*****UPDATE: I just re-uploaded my unit. I completely forgot to add the labels!! Oops! If you already purchased it, please go back and redownload!****

I am so excited to finally be able to share with you my newest unit now available at my TPT store!

I also just started this mini-unit/book study with my kindlers and they are LOVING it!!! It goes with one of my all time favorite "Halloween-themed" books, The Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Steven Kroll.

Here's a peek:

Click HERE to check it out!

One of the items in this unit is a Pumpkin Exploration. I will be doing this with my little ones on Friday! Then, we will carve our pumpkin and start our decomposition science experiment. They are BEYOND excited about getting to help carve out our pumpkin {i'm not going to lie...I'm a little excited too}!!

Pumpkin Exploration

Here's a little art project we completed today. Super simple but the kids love getting to paint! We simply painted our pumpkins {I drew the outline for them}, then cut them out, glued them on, and added our sentence! They did such a good job and the pumpkins really 'pop' on the black paper!

{did I REALLY expect the picture to work...I mean COME ON!!!!}

I just love this time of year, don't you?!

What's your favorite story to read?

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Lately and SHOUT OUTS!

Is anyone else feeling super BUSY?! Fall is just a crazy busy time for me!

Between meetings, getting back in the swing of things, conferences, and all the fun holiday stuff to do I just don't feel like there is enough time in the day!

I'm trying to keep working on new units and freebies. I'm currently working on a "The Greatest Pumpkin Ever" mini-unit and a Anti-bullying unit. Stay tuned!

For now, here's what we've been up to {with some SHOUT OUTS to some amazing teachers}.

Bear week was last week. SO MUCH FUN! This is a picture of one of our "craftivities" we completed after learning about polar bears. This wonderful idea {among SO many} came from Rachelle's {you know her...one of the amazing author's of What the Teacher Wants} Bear Unit. Click the picture below to check out the goodies.

Friday was Teddy Bear Day and one of our activities was to write about the teddy bear {or other animal} we brought in!

{of course it won't turn the right way...rrrrr}

I must attribute the amazing writing skills of my kiddos to our mini-lessons that are taught daily. I struggled with teaching kiddos how to write BUT THEN, no other than, Deanna Jump and Deedee Wills created one AMAZING resource!!!!

Click the picture above to check out the newest writing series you need to begin implementing IMMEDIATELY! This is just the first packet in their writing series. Can't wait to get the next one!

{Don't you love how this sweet friend glued on his sentence?!}

We spent Monday learning about Christopher Columbus. BrainPop Jr. has a fantastic video teaching the little ones all about this historic figure. We completed the above craftivity after learning and reading all about him!

Fire Safety is this week {of course you already knew that though..duh}! Above is a chart we created to help us learn about cause and effect. {I know, I know...how am I not a paid artist??!?!?} :)

Another GREAT addition to our writing station {and Daily 5} came from Deedee Wills! Her writing station packet is PHENOMINAL! seriously. The above picture shows our "writing wall." When you run out of wall space you have to improvise. It's still a work in progress but that's what I've come up with so far! Still needs labeling and such.

Here's a peek at what my kiddos are working on this weekend...labeling!