Halloween And Non Halloween Kindergarten Activities
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his NEWLY UPDATED SPOOKY Halloween unit is divided into areas of literature/media, music, art, literacy, math and science activities, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Bring some Spooky Fun into your classroom or home!
Unit Includes the Following:
Literacy Activities:
Pumpkin Smasher: Identifying Initial Sound
Mystery Letter: Identifying letters
Pumpkin Bingo: Identifying Letters
Trick or Treat: Using Onset/rime.
Independent Activities
Ghostwriter: Writing Uppercase Letters
Fall Into the ABC’s: Tracing & Writing Uppercase Letters
Halloween Sounds: Matching Sounds
Math Activities:
Monster Math-Mash : Identifying More or Less
Candy Count: Building Equivalent Sets of Numbers
Missing Pumpkins: Ordering Numbers
Candy Match: Matching Quantity to Number
Independent Activities
Halloween Buddies: Number Recognition
The Great Pumpkin: Matching Numbers & Quantity
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
My Costume
Halloween
Halloween Word Wall Words
Guided Reading Books
Trick or Treat
Class Made Books
Trick or Treat
Science
Witch Stew: Making Conclusions Based on Observations and Experiences
Monster Slime: Following Directions to Complete an Experiment
Art Projects
Pumpkin,Pumpkin Puppet
Construct a Jack
Orange Ghost
Triangle Witch
Pumpkin Lantern
Songs
Pumpkin-Pumpkin
The Orange Ghost
Ten Little Ghosts
The Old Witch
There's No Such Thing as a Witch
Halloween Is All Around
Haunting: A Free Alphabet Game
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This Spider Thematic Unit 30 Activities: Checkout preview above.
Spiders is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. All activities have clearly defined core objectives.
Contents Include:
Shared Reading Activities
I’M A SPIDER: Building Metacognition Skills
Literacy Activities:
Spider Soup: Identifying Alphabet Letters
The Sneaky Spider: Producing Rhyming Words
Sneaky Spider Words: Reading Sight Words
Home Sweet Web: Matching Alphabet Letters
Spider Walk: Beginning Sounds
Spider Walk Change: Changing Initial or Ending Sounds to Make New Words
Web Treasures: Sorting Objects into Categories
Category Sort: Identifying Word Meanings & Nuances
Spin a Web: ABC Order
Math Activities
The Hungry Spiders: Identifying Numbers
Spider Shapes: Identifying Shapes
Spider Frames: Counting and Cardinality
Spider Legs: Decomposing Numbers
Fill The Web: Ten Frame Hunt
Writing Activities
Real Pictures Word Wall (Beautiful Photographs)
Spider Word Wall
Writing Prompts:
Eensy Wensy Spider
Do I Like Spiders?
Labet-it Spider
Guided Reading Books
Are You a Spider? Level A
Are You a Spider? Level C
Kitchen
Spider Cookie
Science
The Arachnid (Science Journal Labels)
Spider Facts
Sticky Spiders
Art Projects
Glitter Spider Web
Spider Construct
Spider Hat
Songs
Spin, Spin, Spin a Web
A Spider Song
Ten Little Spiders
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Offer some Spooky Fun to your classroom using these "Developmentally Appropriate" learning games.
Contents:
1. Haunted Fluency
Objective: Developing speed and fluency
2. Halloween ABC
Objective: Recognizing upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
3. Haunted House Syllables
Objective: Identifying word parts or syllables
4. Roll & Rhyme Halloween
Objective: Producing and generating rhyming words
5. Boo To You!
Objective: Identifying Uppercase Alphabet Letters
6. Bat & Spider Soup
Objective: Identifying alphabet letters
7. The Great Bat Hunt
Objective: Identifying, discriminating between, and matching alphabet letters
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This Harvest unit; pumpkins, potatoes, corn, apples and more is classroom tested. The Harvest Unit is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Literacy Activities:
Pumpkin Rhymes: Producing Rhyming Words
Harvesting Spuds: Identifying Uppercase Letters
Harvest ABC Train: Letter Identification
The Country Store: Clapping Syllables
Pumpkin Letters: Writing Alphabet Letters
Math Activities:
Ordering Baskets: Ordering objects from least to greatest.
Harvest Sorting: Sorting potatoes or apples into groups
Harvest Balancing: Experimenting with a balance
Number Bingo: Identifying the numbers 0-12
Patterns Worksheet
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
Label-It: Pumpkin
Pumpkins
Photo Harvest Word Wall Words
Guided Reading Books
The Pumpkin
Science
Pumpkin Report: Recording Observations
Art Projects
Potato People
Potato Truck Portfolio Page
Construct Pumpkin
Pumpkin Puppet
Songs
One Potato
I Like Potatoes
The Pumpkin Patch
Poof
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Fall theme emergent readers make learning to read fun and engaging. Using real books is an easy way to apply science of reading and standards!
Offering students a paper book that can be colored and taken home offers students authentic purpose for the guided reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home. Kids LOVE these paper fall themed books!
This set includes:
1. Falling Leaves
2. The Autumn Leaves
3. Autumn
4. Colors of Fall
5. One Potato
6. Potato Song
*Please check out our Halloween Emergent Readers for more fall fun!
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Halloween Activities
These Halloween Math & Reading Games are a great way to meet the core standards in a fun way.
The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. The lessons are written in a format that can be easily taught by the teacher or readily handed off to a parent volunteer or a classroom aide with complete confidence that objectives of the lesson will be reached.
Math Activities
Haunted House Counting: Counting objects
Candy Count: Matching quantity to numerals.
Dark Dark Woods: Demonstrating story problems.
Candy Patterns: Identifying, creating and extending patterns
Halloween Sort and Graph: Sorting and creating graphs.
Reading Activities
Magic Rocks: Matching lowercase letters
Pumpkin Walk: Recognizing letters of the alphabet.
Pop The Sound: Identifying Beginning Sounds
Halloween Hootenanny: Identifying uppercase letters fluently
Halloween Rhyme Time: Producing Rhyming Words
Costume Shop: Identifying words with the same Beginning Sound
© Kathy Crane Kindergarten Kiosk
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Contents Include:
Apple Thematic Unit: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Apple-Thematic-Unit-332020
Apples Anyone?
This "Developmentally Appropriate" thematic apple unit is strategically linked to the common core standards and will connect all areas of your curriculum. Apples Yum!
Table of Contents
Shared Reading Lessons:
And Apple is its Name Oh: Enjoying Songs & Poetry
Way Up High in the Apple Tree: Enjoying Songs & Poetry
Yummy Apples: Word Substitution
Apple Flashcards
Literacy Activities
ABC Apple Orchard: Identifying Alphabet Letters
Apple Tree Rhymes: Producing Rhyming Words
Eating Apples: Identifying Beginning Sounds
Color Word Worms: Matching and Writing Color Words
ABC Apple Trace: Tracing Alphabet Letters
Math Activities
Willy the Wandering Worm: Identifying Numbers
Apple Number Memory: Matching Numbers
Bobbing For Apples: Working with 5-Frames
Math Journal Sticker: Draw an Apple Story
Writing
Apple Wordwall (Beautiful Realistic Photographs)
Apple Parts: Labeling Activity
The Way I Like Apples
Johnny Appleseed
Guided Reading Books
I like Apples
Apples Guided Reading Supports
Science
Apple Report: Scientific Processes
Apple Taste Test: Making Comparisons and Recording Data
Apple Life Cycle: Portfolio Sample
Art Projects
Apple Tree Art
Apple Mosaic
Apple Prints
Songs/Fingerplays
Eating Apples (Be careful, this one will not leave your brain)
Five Little Apples
Have You Ever Seen An Apple
The Apple Tree
Apples
Applesauce
Harvest, Pumpkins, and More Thematic Unit: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Harvest-Pumpkins-and-More-Thematic-Unit-137171
Yes our "Developmentally Appropriate" thematic units are thorough and classroom tested!
This Harvest unit is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Literacy Activities:
Pumpkin Rhymes: Producing Rhyming Words
Harvesting Spuds: Identifying Uppercase Letters
Harvest ABC Train: Letter Identification
The Country Store: Clapping Syllables
Pumpkin Letters: Writing Alphabet Letters
Math Activities:
Ordering Baskets: Ordering objects from least to greatest.
Harvest Sorting: Sorting potatoes or apples into groups
Harvest Balancing: Experimenting with a balance
Number Bingo: Identifying the numbers 0-12
Patterns Worksheet
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
Label-It: Pumpkin
Pumpkins
Photo Harvest Word Wall Words
Guided Reading Books
The Pumpkin
Science
Pumpkin Report: Recording Observations
Art Projects
Potato People
Potato Truck Portfolio Page
Construct Pumpkin
Pumpkin Puppet
Songs
One Potato
I Like Potatoes
The Pumpkin Patch
Poof
Scarecrows Thematic Unit: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Scarecrow-Thematic-Unit-162230
Complement our harvest, fall, Halloween, or Thanksgiving units with these great scarecrow activities inspired by the book "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" - by Linda Williams & illustrated by Megan Lloyd
The Scarecrow unit features activities that are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. Each activity has clear objectives and are strategically linked to the Common Core Standards.
Unit includes:
Literacy Activities:
The Little Old Lady: Story Elements/Sequencing
The Scarecrow: Using Metacognition
Yummy Pumpkins: Word Substitution
Spin a Scarecrow: Blending Onset and Rime
The Sound Maze: Identifying Initial Sounds
Catching Crows: Identifying Letters
Scarecrow Rhymes: Matching Rhyming Pictures
Find the Crow: Writing Capital Letters
Scarecrow Sounds: Identifying Initial Sounds
Math Activities
Scare-A-Crow: Creating a Picture Graph and Recording Data
The Scarecrow: Using Pattern Blocks to Make a Larger Shape
Scarecrow Scare: Comparing Numbers
Scarecrows Count: Counting Forward
Counting Crows: Counting Cardinality
Team Scarecrow: Comparing Groups
Art Projects
Pattern Block Scarecrow
My Shape Scarecrow
Kitchen
Scarecrow Snack
Scarecrow Supper
Writing
Scarecrow Word Wall
If I Were a Scarecrow
How to Scare Crows
Label-It Scarecrow
Classroom Book: My Scarecrow
Guided Reading Books
The Scarecrow
Songs/Fingerplays
The Scarecrow
Little Scarecrow
How Scary Can You Be?
Scarecrow Turn Around
Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
Fall Writing and Literacy Center Activities: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fall-Writing-and-Literacy-Center-Activities-2806168
Help young children become writers by having a weekly writing center that is filled with learning activities that is easy to set-up and change! Both you and your students will love the predictability of these writing center activities.
Can, Have, Are: Key Elements Headers (Pumpkins, Apples, Leaves)
Key Details-- Writing Prompts
Label-It I Can -- Anchor Chart
Label-It Student Worksheets
Make a List I Can -- Anchor ChartChart
Make a List Student Worksheet
Fall Word Wall
Write a Story I Can -- Anchor Chart
Write a Story Prompt Worksheets
Write The Room -- Anchor Chart
Write The Room Worksheet (Sight Word)
Write The Room Word Cards
Write the Room Worksheet (Alphabet)
Write the Room Letter Cards
QR Sight Words
QR Alphabet
Apple and Pumpkin Themed Sight Word Readers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Apple-Pumpkin-Themed-Guided-Readers-1968695
Offering a paper book to emergent readers provides authentic experience at their levels in a "Developmentally Appropriate" way.
Please check out all our thematic sets each of our 51 units offers its own Guided Reader. Additionally we have 22 more sets of these adorable little readers.
Table of Contents:
1. Apples
2. The Pumpkin Cycle
3. Pumpkin Colors
4. Pumpkin Patch
Apple Picking Time
Fall Themed Emergent Sight Word Readers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fall-Themed-Emergent-Sight-Word-Readers-157943
Offering students a paper book that can be colored and taken home offers students authentic purpose for the guided reading instruction and opportunity to practice techniques at home.
This set includes:
1. Falling Leaves
2. The Autumn Leaves
3. Autumn
4. Colors of Fall
*Please check out our Halloween guided reading set for more fall fun!
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Product Description
This Thematic Unit stars skeletons!
The Skeletal System is intriguing to learners of all ages, and Halloween is a great time to strengthen science knowledge of the human skeleton with a little bit of haunted fun! However, this unit is intended to be used anytime during the year to teach about human skeletons.
All activities have clearly defined objectives and are strategically linked to core standards.
Activities include:
Literacy Activities
Six Swinging Skeletons: Naming and Generating Beginning Sounds
Black and White Party: Naming Opposites
Skeleton Dance: Matching Letters
Skeleton Town: Uppercase Alphabetical Order
Skeleton March: Identifying and Writing Alphabet Letters
Math Activities:
Skeleton Match-Up: Matching Quantity With Numbers
The Bone Yard: Counting Backwards
Skeleton Squeeze: Greater Than/Less Than
Collecting Bones: Counting and Cardinality
Skeleton Family: Writing Numbers
Songs
The Skeleton March
The Ghost of John
Bones: Metacognition Activity
Art Projects
Skeleton Construct
Science
Q-Tip Skeletons: Following directions to make a skeleton.
The Human Skeleton
Guided Reading Books
Skeleton
The Skeleton
Writing Prompts
What I Know About Skeletons
Skeleton Word Wall Words (Realistic Photos)
Label-It Skeleton
Haunting: A Free Alphabet Game
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Develop alphabet letter naming fluency by playing this fun-fast pace letter gathering game.
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Product Description
Complement our harvest, fall, Halloween, or Thanksgiving units with these great scarecrow activities inspired by the book "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" - by Linda Williams & illustrated by Megan Lloyd
This Scarecrow unit features activities that are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. Each activity has clear objectives and are strategically linked to Core Standards.
Unit includes:
Literacy Activities:
The Little Old Lady: Story Elements/Sequencing
The Scarecrow: Using Metacognition
Yummy Pumpkins: Word Substitution
Spin a Scarecrow: Blending Onset and Rime
The Sound Maze: Identifying Initial Sounds
Catching Crows: Identifying Letters
Scarecrow Rhymes: Matching Rhyming Pictures
Find the Crow: Writing Capital Letters
Scarecrow Sounds: Identifying Initial Sounds
Math Activities
Scare-A-Crow: Creating a Picture Graph and Recording Data
The Scarecrow: Using Pattern Blocks to Make a Larger Shape
Scarecrow Scare: Comparing Numbers
Scarecrows Count: Counting Forward
Counting Crows: Counting Cardinality
Team Scarecrow: Comparing Groups
Art Projects
Pattern Block Scarecrow
My Shape Scarecrow
Kitchen
Scarecrow Snack
Scarecrow Supper
Writing
Scarecrow Word Wall
If I Were a Scarecrow
How to Scare Crows
Label-It Scarecrow
Classroom Book: My Scarecrow
Guided Reading Books
The Scarecrow
Songs/Fingerplays
The Scarecrow
Little Scarecrow
How Scary Can You Be?
Scarecrow Turn Around
Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
Apple and Pumpkin Themed Guided Readers
Apple Experiment Science Guided Reader
Eating Apples Free Beginning Sound Game
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Halloween Reading Books that will bring holiday connections to your reading instruction!
Offering a paper book to emergent readers provides authentic experience at their levels in a "Developmentally Appropriate" way.
Table of Contents:
1. Halloween Night
2. Little Witch
3. The Chocolate Chip Ghost
4. Trick or Treat
5. My Halloween Costume
6. Pat the Bat
© Kathy Crane Kindergarten Kiosk
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Halloween Alphabet Activity
Build toward automaticity of letter naming as you play this delightful Halloween themed letter fluency game. Your student's just might "Oooo" like a ghost, "Heehee" like a witch, "Yeooow" like a cat, "T'dum" like a Frankenstein, or do a "Trick or Treat" letter naming race. Download for FREE and let the fun begin!
© Kathy Crane Kindergarten Kiosk
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This fall, autumn thematic unit is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation.
Literacy Activities:
The Falling Leaves: Alphabet Fluency
Letter Whoo: Identifying Upper &; Lowercase Letters
Collecting Acorns: Blending Onset/rime
Hidden Sounds: Identifying Beginning Sounds.
Corn Maze ABC: Identifying Letters
Independent Literacy Activities:
Squirrel Sort: Sorting Syllables
Trace and Write A-Z
Syllable Count: Identify Number of Syllables
Math Activities:
What's Missing: Developing Observation & Descriptive Skills
Squirrel Match: Identifying Numbers
Leaf Graph: Graphing Leaves
Leaf Hunt: Ordering Numbers
Independant Math Activities:
Counting Leaves: Identifying the Count
Leaf Count: Counting Leaves
Writing numbers 1-10
Writing Prompts/Word Wall
Falling Leaves
All About Autumn
Harvest Word Wall Words
Guided Reading Book
Fall Leaves
My Leaf Book
Science
A Tree For All Seasons: Creating trees to represent
the four seasons
A Fall Walk: Observing and recording the change of
season found around the school yard
Seasonal Change of a Tree: Using senses to
observe and record the seasonal changes of a tree.
Art Projects
Leaf Person
Fall Leaves
Leaf Rubbings
Leaf Painting
Fall Tree
Songs
Autumn Leaves
Pick It Up
5 Little Squirrels
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Apple and Pumpkin Themed Guided Readers
Apple Experiment Science Guided Reader
Eating Apples Free Beginning Sound Game
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Product Description
Apples Anyone?
This apple thematic unit is strategically linked to core standards and will connect all areas of your curriculum. Apples Yum!
Table of Contents
Shared Reading Lessons:
And Apple is its Name Oh: Enjoying Songs & Poetry
Way Up High in the Apple Tree: Enjoying Songs & Poetry
Yummy Apples: Word Substitution
Apple Flashcards
Literacy Activities
ABC Apple Orchard: Identifying Alphabet Letters
Apple Tree Rhymes: Producing Rhyming Words
Eating Apples: Identifying Beginning Sounds
Color Word Worms: Matching and Writing Color Words
ABC Apple Trace: Tracing Alphabet Letters
Math Activities
Willy the Wandering Worm: Identifying Numbers
Apple Number Memory: Matching Numbers
Bobbing For Apples: Working with 5-Frames
Math Journal Sticker: Draw an Apple Story
Writing
Apple Wordwall (Beautiful Realistic Photographs)
Apple Parts: Labeling Activity
The Way I Like Apples
Johnny Appleseed
Guided Reading Books
I like Apples
Apples Guided Reading Supports
Science
Apple Report: Scientific Processes
Apple Taste Test: Making Comparisons and Recording Data
Apple Life Cycle: Portfolio Sample
Art Projects
Apple Tree Art
Apple Mosaic
Apple Prints
Songs/Fingerplays
Eating Apples (Be careful, this one will not leave your brain)
Five Little Apples
Have You Ever Seen An Apple
The Apple Tree
Apples
Applesauce
Apple and Pumpkin Themed Guided Readers
Apple Experiment Science Guided Reader
Eating Apples Free Beginning Sound Game