Creepy Carrots - Book Extension

Creepy Carrots is such a fun book to read! The kids love this story. Who knew you could feel sympathy for carrots. This is a perfect book to teach point of view. How would YOU feel if you were a carrot in a field of rabbits? This packet will have your children making those Text To Self connections as they are introduced to these fun characters. This extension has activities for point of view, but also many other reading and language skills as well. It has activities for summarizing, retelling the sequence of events, letter writing, and more. It has math graphing activities and addition to 10. This packet is filled with fun activities that will keep your children engaged and thinking in a fun way. Use them whole group or introduce and use as center activities.

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When The Clock Strikes on Halloween - Book Extension

This cute rhyming book is perfect for k-1 children. It is great for teaching time to the hour. We created a book extension that includes activities to teach telling time, writing activities, rhyming, word order, graphing and more. This pack is filled with fun activities that will keep your children engaged and thinking in a fun way. Use them whole group or introduce and use as center activities. This book is a must have for Halloween.

SO...if you have read this book, you know the part that they all love, right?!?!?!  "When the clock strikes three..."  HAHAHA!

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Noun FREEBIE!

Here's a quick and east FREEBIE to use during Halloween. We have been learning about NOUNS. We needed this is a simple review on determining if the word is a person, place or thing. Just a little something to add to your Halloween collection, or your sub tub. 

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Be sure to check out SPOOKTACULAR NOUNS if you need more practice with singular/plural and common/proper nouns!  You will get 5 different activities that will keep your students engaged during this crazy Halloween season!

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October Book Extension Bundle

The cover of this bundle shows you all the books we used and  included in this bundle.  Get it for a discount when you purchase it all together.  Click on each book's preview in our TPT store to see what you get with each extension, all packaged up in one easy purchase.  

Happy Halloween reading!!!

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Stellaluna - Book Extension

This is a precious story of a little lost bat that thinks it's a bird, until while flying she realizes she is different.  It is great book to use to teach your children tolerance, and acceptance of those who are different.  We created a book extension to go with this book to teach even more.  Get it in our TPT store by clicking below.  Click on the preview to see all the things we do with this wonderful story.  It's a must have book!!!

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Bat Jamboree - Book Extension

This very musical book will have your feet tapping and your legs moving as you listen to the rhythmic tale of some funny dancing bats.  We always read it during the weeks before Halloween and make the kids go BATTY for a little while as we have fun with this book.  Check out our book extension for more things to do with this book to promote comprehension and writing and much more.  Click below to see it in our store on TPT and click preview to see what we included.  

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Mouse's First Halloween - Book Extension

How does a mouse feel about his first Halloween?  Read this book to find out. Click below to see some of the fun things we do with our first graders after reading this book to teach comprehension skills like visualizing and sequencing.  This story is also great to go back and reread to see who did what, then try matching the action to the animal. We have included work that can be done whole group, in centers or in interactive notebooks.  Click below to be redirected to our TPT story and check out the preview to see what we do.  

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Room on the Broom - Book Extension

This book is a cute story about the adventures of a witch on a broom that loses and finds things along her flight. It's a perfect book for retelling, or sequencing.  We have a book extension that will give you fun things to do to really get the most of this book with your students.  Check it out in our TPT story by clicking below and then click preview and see what all you get.  This book is a Halloween must have.  If you don't own it, borrow from someone who does or find it on YouTube.  Halloween time is so fun!!

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The Big Pumpkin - Book Extension

We never let a Halloween go by without reading this funny story of what can happen with a little trust and teamwork.  It has a fun predictable repetition that will have your students chiming in to read along with you.  We have a book extension that adds even more fun to this story. Click below to get it in our TPT store and then click preview to see all the things we included to use in word work stations, or whole group comprehension practice.
   

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The Runaway Pumpkin - Book Extension

First graders love listening to this story.  They have a natural love of animals and adventure and this book includes both.  See what happens on the farm when a pumpkin starts rocking and rolling through the countryside.  Beware, you are in for a wild pumpkin ride.  We put together a book extension that lets you go back, reread, and practice comprehension skills like visualizing, and story mapping, as well as vocabulary and sequencing.  It also has a great word work rhyming words activity. Click below to get it in our TPT store and click on the preview to see what we have inside.      

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Spooktacular Nouns

We have been working on common and proper nouns.  Today, we went on a little hunt and found eyeballs all around the room!  Some were common nouns and some were proper nouns. 
 

The students had to write the words in the appropriate columns. Simple, but fun! It's always fun to get up and move around the room...while learning!

 

The Runaway Pumpkin

Here's a little FREEBIE to add to your Halloween collection or sub tub.
Read the book The Runaway Pumpkin  by S.D. Schindler.
Then have the students read the statements and decide if they did or did not happen in the story. Then have them cut and paste yes or no in the box next to the statements.

                                            

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Trick or Treat Roll and Add

Today we played roll and add  using this cute little witch game board.  The children take turns rolling, add two to the number rolled, and cover their number.  The person with the most covered at the end is the winner. We used the cute little candy corn and Frankenstein erasers I found at Target last year in the dollar section to cover the numbers.  I've looked this year, but haven't found them again sadly.  If you find them, grab them up.   Well, you KNOW how they love competition.  They had a blast and didn't want to stop to go to PE. Some played the game three times.