Getting Festive for Fall with the Virginia Bloggers

We hope ya'll are enjoying the beautiful season of Fall! We love to watch the leaves change colors here in Virginia. One of our favorite activities is going on a leaf hunt and collecting the pretty leaves.





We read these books on leaves.  Our kiddos enjoyed all of them.

Here are some of the pictures of our own leaf hunt.  I loved the way they ran toward the trees!

 The kids were so excited to show their bags of leaves!

Then we came back into the room and made leaf rubbings. You just place a piece of white copier paper over a leaf and rub a crayon over top of it. The kiddos got so excited to see the print it made.

Next, we cut out the leaves and glued them on a piece of construction paper.

 We made a picture with the leaves and then we wrote about our pictures.

This is a cool experiment you may want to do with your kiddos. We are going to try it next week. 

http://www.mykidsadventures.com/leaf-color-chromatography/

Our kiddos also love our pumpkin theme. We just started with a few activities and will continue to do more next week.

We started by reading our original poem about pumpkins. We gave all the students a copy to put in their poetry folders so they can practice reading it. They enjoy sharing their poems with their fourth grade book buddies. The students highlighted the rhyming words. They love using the highlighters!

After we spent a few days reading the poem, we gave them a fill in the blank sheet to complete. They used their poems to help them.

Ya'll can grab this poem and fill in the blank sheet by clicking on the picture below:

We would greatly appreciate ya'll leaving us a nice comment if you decide to download it. We also hope that ya'll will check out our store and follow it by clicking on the green star at the top of the store page so you will be notified of all our new products. We usually offer them 50% off the first 48 hours. We also have another free poem with our Quality Quentin puppet as a free download at our store.

We also had our students build the poem in a pocket chart.  It was great listening to how they worked together to complete the poem, and how excited they got when they finished it. Several of them yelled,"We did it!" These pocket chart cards are in our Pumpkin Fun Literacy Bundle.  Here are a few pictures of some of the other things you will get in this bundle. 

Click on the picture below to purchase this bundle of over 80 pages 50% off this weekend during the Hop:)

 An interactive pumpkin activity that your kiddos can do like this.

 This would be the back of it.

 There are 20 word family sorts.

 This is a dot to dot bat with the- at family.



Our kiddos also made it into a bat puppet. We used it to sing vowel bat from this CD: http://www.kidscount1234.com/schooliscool.html

This book and coloring book are also included. The book teaches your kiddos about kindness.
It is one of the character traits in our song"Quality Students". The song is also included in this bundle.

If ya'll are looking at this on Friday, ya'll might want to check out all the dollar deals.

Just click on the picture below to get our fun Halloween Addition Scoot game. Then type freakyfriday in the search engine to see all the dollar deals:) 

We hope your kiddos will enjoy our pumpkin poem, and all the great Fall activities from some awesome Virginia teachers!:)

Click on the button below and check out Carmen's awesome resource on main ideas and details:)

Fun Friday and 50% off our large Bundle of Pumpkin Fun

 My kiddos had fun making this interactive pumpkin activity as they learned about the pumpkin cycle. You can do it in a science notebook of just make a pumpkin shaped activity.


Just click on the picture below and ya'll can purchase this large bundle of fun pumpkin activities for 50% off!

I gave each student a copy of the pumpkin poem to put in their poetry folder.  They used yellow highlighters to high light the rhyming words.
They always love it when I bring these out!

We also used the pocket chart cards of the poem to build it in the chart, and then I used it in a literacy center for my small groups. I loved the conversation between my kiddos as they put the cards in order. They even looked at words that started with a capital letter and discussed that those words had to go at the beginning. It was so cool when they yelled."We did it!" when all the words were placed in the pocket chart.

 They even matched words to their poems to decide where they went in the chart.

We also enjoyed this original book about how Quentin learns to share and be kind when he goes to the pumpkin patch. He is reminded of what he learned in the "Quality Student" song. This original song is also included in this bundle. My kiddos love singing and dancing to the song. They also act out the letters as they spell,"Quality." 

These are a few pages from our original book.

I gave them their own adapted version of the book for them to color and add to their book bags to practice reading. I let them use colored pencils, and they loved that!

We worked on the word family sorts in small groups as well.  There are 20 different word family sorts in this bundle. 

These are some word family cards that I also had in a center to practice. You can also use the cards in a Scoot game because there is a recording sheet. I just laminated the cards and let them write on them with a dry erase marker.

This is one of the printables from the bundle that we did today. It is a dot to dot with at words and it makes a bat. They colored it black when they were finished and cut it out and glued it on a stick to make a puppet. 

There are also more printables included.

We hope y'all had as much fun reading about our Fun Friday as we did sharing it with ya'll! You can get this large bundle for just $6 Today and Tomorrow- Oct. 10 and 11.

We are also offering our Pumpkin Time Scoot game for $1 for freaky friday. Just click on the picture below to purchase this. Ya'll can also see all the $1 items from other great teachers by typing freakyfriday in the search engine. We will be offering $1 items every Friday in the month of Oct. 

Have a great weekend! Check back next weekend for our Fall FREEBIE as we join some awesome teachers to bring y'all some fun activities!:)

Educents ELA SALE

We are so excited to announce that our Word of the Day Calendar Bundle is on sale at Educents on Oct.8-15.

We have noticed that our kiddos have shown great improvement in their writing as well as vocabulary development.  These words keep them focused on a topic, and appears to give them confidence in their writing.

Just click on the picture below to purchase:

This is a sample from the October Calendar. The first set of words have to do with Columbus, and then will move into Fall and Halloween words. This pattern is an AB pattern, orange pumpkin, green pumpkin. The picture is Mandy, Quality Quentin's friend. If ya'll want to check any of the products we have with Quality Quentin or Mandy, just look under Quality Quentin under our custom categories on the left side of our store.  There is also a definition sheet and a journal sheet in the packs.

If ya'll would like to just purchase October to see how you like it, then just click on the picture below:

We use  calendar notebooks and the students write their words, sentences and do illustrations of the words in them.

The kiddos love sharing their notebooks.

The students have their own black and white versions of the calendars. They choose 5 of the words that go together to help them write a story for the Word of the day Stories for the month.

These are just a few samples of the writing that some of our students have done using the calendar words. They circle the words that they use.

 This paper was written by one of my ELL students who struggled with writing at the beginning of the year. I noticed he would improve each month using these words. This is what he did in April. I was so proud of his improvement!:)

Here is how they were writing by the end of the year:)

We bind all the stories into a class book each month that the kiddos can read all throughout the year. 

We hope that y'all will check these calendars out and will have as much success as we have:)

We hope y'all will come back and see our Halloween Bundles with books and fun printables. for Fun Friday ! We will be offering them 50% off in our store. See you then:)

We would also love to hear from ya'll!:)