Trick-Or-Treat Sale & FREEBIE

Trick-or-Treat!  I am having a 20% off sale in my TPT store right now until 11:59 p.m. on Halloween.  Click on the picture below to head on over to my store.

 Also, while your there check out this Ten Frame Freebie that I just added.  :)

Happy Halloween!!!!!

Spiders & Scarecrow Preview

Last week we studied letter S and SSSSSSpiders.  Although I am not a huge fan of spiders myself my kiddos sure do LOVE learning about those scary hairy things!  ;)  We did a cute anchor chart about spiders but I FORGOT to take a pic (shame on me), read Miss Spider's Tea Party, learned all kinds of spider facts, and made a cute spider craft.

 Literacy & Math Centers-Icky Spider Unit

 Are you Afraid of Spiders? Graph

 Spider craft (compliments of Kim Jordano)

 This is the book that I use to teach 
my kiddos spider facts.  

It is a GREAT informational text.

and lastly...Here is a preview my new scarecrow unit that I just uploaded to TPT just in time for our Scarecrow unit next week.  :)

Next up Pumpkins.  Stay tuned!  :)

Letter Order & Thanksgiving Preview

I have had tons of e-mails about what order I teach letters/themes so I decided I would do a blog post.  As I have mentioned before our school uses Scott Foresman Reading Street so most of the themes that I teach go along with the "letter of the week" (however there are a few that don't).  Here is a list of the themes/letters in order that I do 1st semester:

Hope this helps.  ;)

On another note, I just finished up and posted my Thanksgiving unit on TPT.  This pack is HUGE and would be a great resource to use the whole month of November.  Click on the pic below to go 

check it out.  :)

Applicious Centers

If you LOVE fall raise your hand!  That would be this girl!  (summer is actually my MOST favorite but I am lovin' some fall too)  I love fall for many reasons...you know college football~WAR EAGLE~, pumpkin patches, the leaves turning colors, roasting marshmallows, and the list goes on and on.  This past week we worked on our apple unit which goes right along with our fall theme.  Here are a few of our activities from this week.

 **These math and literacy activities can be found in my 

Applicious Math and Applicious Literacy Packs on TPT.

 exploring the parts of an apple

 labeling parts of apple

 our OH SO CUTE Johnny Appleseed craft

   Hope you all had a relaxing weekend! :)  War Eagle!

T is for Teddy Bear

As many of you know from reading this little blog that I LOVE to teach thematically so it was only fitting to work on teddy bear activities to go along with our letter Tt study.  Of course we worked on LOTS of math and literacy skills during centers, some cute theme activities, and then a teddy bear picnic for the finale.  Check out some of our teddy bear fun below.

 **These teddy bear centers can be found in my Teddy Bear Math & Literacy unit on TPT.

 putting our teddies in order from smallest to largest

 making the T with our teddies

Teddy Bear Picnic FUN!

 sorting our teddy bear snack

Fall Flash Sale

Happy Fall Y'all!  I just wanted to let you guys know that you can get my *Brand New* Apple Math Common Core Unit, Apple Literacy Unit, & Pumpkin Math & Literacy Unit for half off until tomorrow night!  :)  Click on the button below to head on over.

Also, DON'T forget to head on over to Plants Press to enter our Fall Fun Giveaway that ends at midnight!  :)

M is for Monster! & Pumpkin Preview

We have been having so much fun in K that I just haven't had the time to blog.  ;)  Week before last we began doing one letter a week in our reading program (Scott Foresman Reading Street) and the first one is "Mm".  To go along with our focus letter for the week we monstered it up with tons of monster activities.  

 Letter Matching

 ABC Order A-J

 Pocket Chart Story

Initial Sound M & T practice

Uppercase/Lowercase Letter Match Up

 Art center.  :)  

 1:1 Counting practice

 Number Order 1-5

Patterns

**All of the above center activities can be found in my Monstrous Math & Literacy Unit.  :)

I LOVE the way these turned out.  SO cute.  If you would like the shape glyph sheet click HERE to download it from last years post.

I also LOVE this activity.  Julie and I adapted this from an activity we saw on Overall Success.

and finally here is a preview of my brand new pumpkin unit that I just got posted.  Stay tuned for my next post on T and Teddy Bears.  :)