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. 

I never in my wildest dreams would have imagined that kids would go through bookmarks the way they do! I can't keep the basket stocked each week. I have to admit though, next to the smell of the Bookmobile when I was a kid, getting new bookmarks rated pretty high up on the scale for fabulous things about checking out a book for me, too. ;)

In case you thought I have forgotten how to blog, you might be right! ;) This year has been a whirlwind and I've been super busy at school and at home. Now that things are slowing down a little, I thought I'd post a freebie. Enjoy! I hope to be back soon to post our Fall Book Fair pictures. You can use this as a printable for younger students and digital for older students. 

This week went by way too fast! I cannot believe it is already second quarter and I'm still begging for more teaching time at the end of each day. Some weeks I feel like this is my first year teaching all over again, except there aren't as many cutesy projects. :)

We have had so much fun this week! We celebrated our 40th day of school on Monday, had a pumpkin patch field trip on Tuesday, 3D pumpkin labeling on Wednesday, testing and pumpkin observations on Thursday and more testing and birthday celebrating on Friday.

One of the perks of teaching the same grade level my daughter is in is that I get to go on all her field trips and participate in class activities with her. I had to include the picture of her above on her field trip to the pumpkin patch. I love that girl to pieces! It was crazy windy, so her hair was all over the place. :)

For our 3D pumpkin labeling project, we felt like we needed something that was fun and cute, but still helped us stay in line with the Common Core and our state's Science expectations. This is what we came up with.

I have the directions and printables available in my TpT store for only $1. Just click on the picture below to take you to my store.

 
Today is my birthday and yesterday I had lots of super sweet treats from my secret pal, teacher friends and students. One of my students and his mom brought me a pecan pie fresh from the oven! I'm so blessed!



All three of our Kindergarten classes combined the results of our How many jack-o-lanterns tall are you? graph.



If you don't have a die cut machine to make your pumpkins or jack-o-lanterns for this activity, click on the picture below to download this freebie from TpT! It includes pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns in case you can't use Halloween themed items in your classroom.

***Update...Due to a seller bundling my items and offering them for sale via another web site, I am no longer offering this item for free. I'm sorry! I hope you understand.***

I had a request for a Frankenstein Hundreds Chart, so here you go! Just click on the picture below to purchase this chart in my TpT store for only $1.

I also added a Halloween Base Ten and Ten Frame Number Match up for numbers 1-10. You can get it through my TpT store for only $1!  Just  click on the picture below.

I know that not everyone celebrates Halloween, especially at school, but I went ahead and made a unit to go along with the series of Old Lady books by Lucille Colandro because a few of you had asked about it. This unit goes with the book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat. The mini math and literacy unit has lots of activities that can be used for whole group, small groups or literacy stations.
Here are a few examples of the things you will see in the unit. Just click on one of the pictures below to take you to my TpT store.