Are you looking to add some fun fall or autumn vibes into your classroom or library decor? Apples and pumpkins are the perfect symbols for this beautiful season! I'm excited to offer you two FREE downloadable thematic banners featuring apples and pumpkins with a variety of traditional background patterns and colors. Brighten up your learning space with these adorable decorations that will get your students or readers excited about the season! These are perfect for your fall reading displays!

Be sure to follow my TPT Store to get updates when I post new products and freebies! I hope you enjoy these thematic banners!

I fell in love with this vintage Halloween digital paper and had to create a new freebie with it. Be sure to click on the picture below to check out my TpT Store and download a set of editable blank decor/poster templates for yourselves! I will be working on task cards to match very soon! Be sure to follow my store for more freebies and new products! 

I hope everyone is having a wonderful fall season! I miss all of my bloggy friends! I am enjoying so many great activities in and out of school and it's definitely keeping me busy. This is my favorite time of year for many reasons. I love the colors, the smells, the weather, the leaves, pumpkin everything, long sleeves, bonfires, fall festivals, pumpkin patches, etc. I could go on and on!

This was our Parent-Teacher conference week and I honestly thought it would be a great time to work on curriculum. However, I didn't realize so many parents and students would come into the library. We were having a used book & VHS sale, so that brought families in, too. It was great to see parents and kiddos because I really miss family connections from being a classroom teacher! Although I wasn't able to work on curriculum, I did a massive amount of cleaning & getting rid of lots of things from when I was teaching Kindergarten. I love feeling organized and being able to get to things easily!!!

For today, my goal was to work on a few things for the upcoming week and I wanted to share a link to a few activities in case you need something, too. I have a few more things in mind, but I don't know that I will have time to post them between church and a fall festival tomorrow.

I created two fall/Halloween cookie sorts. One sort is for my Pre-K and Kdg. classes and the other is for 1st-5th grades. Click on the pictures below to take you to my TpT store. 

This week seemed to fly by! We had lots of special visitors for Fire Safety Week, including our local Fire Department, Smokey the Bear and Pluggie the Fire Hydrant (American Red Cross). We also had Professional Development training day on Friday, so we've been very busy.

My co-workers and I have been working on the next three weeks worth of lessons to help get us through the end of October and beginning of November. I am loving having two hours a week of plan time with my fellow Kindergarten teachers.

While I was thinking about what to do for our Pumpkins unit, I came up with a song for Science to help teach students the parts of the pumpkin. However, I didn't have any cutesy graphics to go with it. So, I contacted Denyse at Scrappin' Doodles with my song and asked if she could make some graphics to go with it. I got an email from her that she was finished today and the graphics were absolutely PERFECT for what I was needing! Be sure to check out all of Denyse's cute designs at www.ScrappinDoodles.com.

Then, Parts of a Pumpkin Literacy Mini Unit was born! I also added to the unit an emergent reader, a labeling worksheet and the song in pocket chart form with pictures. Feel free to check it out in my TpT store by clicking the picture below. It is only $3.

I finally listed my unit There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves. Take a peek at it on TpT! It is only $3 and includes enough resources for two days worth of activities. This was the first Old Lady book I've done with my class this year and they absolutely loved the spinner/graphing activity. It was so wonderful to see them engaged and having conversations about whose turn it was and getting excited when it was their turn. :) I love lessons like that!
 
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This weekend, one of my best teacher friends and I are in charge of our local Community Teacher Association's funnel cake booth to help support scholarships for high school seniors. I think all the preparations and the anticipated change in temps for Saturday have me feeling like fall! I love fall and can't wait to start decorating!

In the mean time, I created a little freebie for you that will hopefully come in handy if you are headed to the pumpkin patch soon!  Have you ever been on a hayride? is a class graph and analysis printable to help get your students excited about fall! Just click on one of the pictures below to grab your free copy! Enjoy!

Last week, I added some new products to my TpT store that I completely forgot to post about. I hope you like them!

The first three people to comment with the product they would most like from above will get the item for free! Be sure to include your email address! Thanks, Ann, Megan and Elisabeth for being the first three to comment. Be sure to check your email for your freebies!

Is it just me or do cute fonts just make everything better? :)

Tonight as I was searching for something for a printable I was working on, I thought I might as well share some of the things I came across for fall and winter with all of you. Some of the dingbats fonts are adorable for single use graphics for math and reading printables! I was mainly searching for fall fonts, but I added a few links to winter/Christmas fonts that were cute, too.

What's your favorite free or paid fall or winter font?


Fall Fonts
Font Space
Fonts 101 (I love the LD Falling Leaves font!)
Free Digital Scrapbooking
1-Free-Fonts
Fonts 2 U (Fall) Fonts 2 U (Thanksgiving)
Web Tool Hub
California Fonts
FonTsner (LD Fall Finds is cute and 2 Peas Fall Dingbats are adorable!)
Bright Hub (Love the Pumpkin font!)

 Winter Fonts
Witty Living
Dyers
Free Digital Scrapbooking
Fonts 2 U (Winter)  Fonts 2 U (Christmas)
Web Tool Hub
DaFont
FonTsner (Christmas)

Source: Amazon.com

 As part of our Fall unit, we read the story We're Going on a Leaf Hunt by Steve Metzger. Then, we took a walk around our playground to collect leaves. When we got back to the classroom, we created leaf rubbings with our new finds. Click on the image below for a free printable if you would like to do this activity with your students.

Can you tell I can't live without DJ Inkers and Carson-Dellosa clip art? I have to say, I love their work!!! I know it's pretty obvious from all the printables that I create using clip art from one or both companies. I just purchased another set called Harvest Time, so I created this emergent reader to share.Our class is going to the pumpkin patch next week, so this will be a perfect fit for when we return. I hope you enjoy it, too!

Pumpkin Patch Emergent Reader