As you prepare to read Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell and begin the ever popular pumpkin decomposition/life cycle experiment, here's a little something to tie your experiment area together so your jar of eventual sludge will make sense to an outsider looking in. 😉

I created this set because I wanted a banner to display the week I taught the lesson, but something smaller for the rest of the year that I could place near our pumpkin jar.

Head on over to my TpT store to download a copy of my FREE Oviparous Animals Word Search Bookmarks! Several of our K-3 classes are learning about life cycles this spring, so I thought this might help some of our library students while extending the learning going on in their classrooms. Click on the picture below to get your freebie! I hope this is something that will be useful for your students.

We got an early start to our Spring Break today in the form of an unexpected snow day! :) While I'm not a huge fan of having to keep extending our school year, I have to admit that a day off on the same day Scrappin' Doodles offers a 25% off coupon is a pretty good day in my book!

I had lots of time today to create a few new life cycles units, a new chicken/hen hundreds chart. I am working on a couple of freebies that I will be posting over the next week.

I'm so excited that it's finally Spring!!! Shortly after I teach my mini unit on Spring, I will begin teaching a unit on life cycles of plants and animals. I created a set of activities for Reading and Science for the life cycle of frogs. Be sure to check it out in my TpT store. It is only $2! I have also included some freebies for you below!

Here's a life cycle box book freebie I created to go with this unit! I tried it out on my daughter and she did well with direct instruction. I hope you get the idea of how it goes together from the directions. :)



I also created a Do You Like Frogs? graph and response sheet as a freebie to include in my unit above.



I also found the following activities to help me teach my frog life cycles mini unit. I hope you find the following links helpful, as well!


Life Cycle of a Frog Animated Science Video
Life Cycle of a Frog color page
Life Cycle of a Frog Online Puzzle (I'm going to use this at the end of the unit for a visual review.)

Frog Nomenclature Book (Montessori)
Understanding Webbed Feet
Frog Metamorphosis Diagram This diagram is a little bit better at showing a few more changes in the stages of the life cycle.

Do you have any great ideas for teaching life cycles? My favorites are actually the butterfly and the chick. :)

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

I had so much fun creating the upcoming holiday and celebration hundreds chart activities that I decided to make some more hundreds chart items for spring and a few for previous holidays. Click on each picture to purchase these charts from my TpT store.

To view the previous hundreds chart post: Click here