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| Easy popcorn word trace, print |
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| The kids loved cutting open the pumpkin and looking in, feeling it,smelling it, etc. |
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| They identified the pulp, fibers, seeds, shell, lid, etc. |
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| Cute read aloud. |
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| Me and my neighbor teacher...we have 5 kindergarten teachers in our building so we were the "5 Little Pumpkins". |
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| My son took this picture of me this morning! |
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| Labeling the pumpkin (inside view). Tomorrow we are going to cut our class pumpkin open to investigate. |
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| We made a class book out of last week's predictable chart..In fall I will..... |
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| Making monster faces using pattern block shapes. |
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| Graphing how many of each shape we used for our monster faces. |
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| Counting game at center time...catching monsters. |
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| Frankenstein art with shape fill in. |
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| Ordinal number practice using DJ inkers clip art. This one is my sample, I let the kids take theirs home before snapping a picture. This was an extension to the big book below: |
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| Simple pattern stamping with bingo dabbers. |
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| The kids had to pick a monster from the stew pot and write the letter on the recording sheet. |
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| These are foam beads from Oriental Trading. I had the kids sort them on the sorting mat below and then illustrate. The shapes were pretty simple so it was easy for recording. |
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| Marshmallow Math Fun with BooMallows. |
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| The kids "picked" pumpkins from the pumpkin patch and found the letter on the corresponding sheet and used a bingo dabber to find the letter. |
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| The Pumpkin Patch! |
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| This recording sheet goes with the game below. Good for handwriting practice. |
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| Simple 3 or 4 letter word writing. I used the document camera and modeled this with the class. |
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| Acting out Itsy Bitsy Spider w/ a straw and plastic spider. |
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| Sorting spider/not a spider. |
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| Creating Haunted Houses w/ foam pieces. |
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| Creating own patterns w/ Halloween erasers. |
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| Sequencing from the story , "Go Away Big Green Monster". |
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| Sewing autumn cards. |
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| We cut open our pumpkin on party day. It was kind of rotten but the kids touched it and I let them take home a few seeds. |
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| Go Away Big Green Monster felt face pieces. |
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| From seed to pumpkin game w/ a partner. |
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| Counting out candy to put in pumpkins/skeletons. |
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| Sorting leaves by various attributes. |
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| Using flannelboard to retell the story of "The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything". |
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| Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater artwork. |
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| Peter flannelboard retelling. |
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| Using black play doh to and shape cookie cutters to make jack o lantern faces. |
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| Halloween mazes |
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| Candy Corn patterning cards. |
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| using cookie cutters and Halloween ice cube trays to make play doh Halloween shapes. |
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| Dramatic play area. The kids used Halloween decorations and paper plates to play Halloween Party and Farm Market. |
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| Pocket Chart story of the week "Grow a Pumpkin". |
