A REALLY Long Post, but LOTS of Stuff!

It feels like it's been a while since I've actually made a real post...we have been super busy in our classroom!  I cannot believe I am teaching Thanksgiving...where did the first day of school go?  It seems like it was yesterday!  Here are just a few of the things from last week and this week that we have been doing.  

Here we are completing our Frankenstein name comparison activity that you can find in mine and Deanna's Autumn packet.

I hung these along with our Frankensteins by Deanna...I didn't do the glyph part, but thought it went perfect with this name activity.

We read The Three Bears' Halloween and practiced our sequencing skills using this big candy corn.

And, of course, we retold the story with real candy corn then ate it!

We also made a venn diagram to compare this story to the original Three Bears story.

 We read The Little Scarecrow Boy and made these cute little scarecrows.  Each student chose which face they would make to scare a crow and then drew it and wrote it on their paper.

Here a just a few of our centers that you can find in my upcoming Thanksgiving Unit...it isn't posted yet, but hopefully tomorrow!

We make a Thanksgiving Fact book that turns out sooooo stinkin' cute!  Here are the first 3 pages we've completed.  

 We are practicing learning our number words and we made this cute little guy...it may be hard to see, but we wrote each number word to fill in the song.

During whole group math we matched the pumpkins below so that each were symmetrical, then we completed this little recording sheet!

Here's a link to my last year's post about Thanksgiving

there are some fun ideas there too

Finally, check out these three blogs...I teach with all three of these gals and they are GREAT!

http://misschambleeskinderfriends.blogspot.com

http://kindergartenkhronicles.blogspot.com

http://mrsbeardensclass.blogspot.com

Thanks for stopping by friends!  I truly enjoy reading all of your sweet comments so keep them coming!

My Thanksgiving unit is almost ready so keep your eye out AND many of you have asked about my gingerbread and Christmas things...they are up next!  

Trick or Treat & Halloween Party

Here we are doing The Spooky Walk.  I found this cute song on a cd from the Dollar Tree.  

Halloween Party

Getting ready to go trick or treating around the school.  So much fun!  We turn off the hall lights and all the kids make spooky sounds.  

Mrs. Bridges got a scare from our vampire teeth!

in the hall

visiting Mrs. Penney

visiting Mrs. Mitchell

visiting Mrs. Millwood

visiting Mrs. Landers

visiting Mrs. Stone

The Three Bears' Halloween

We read the story The Three Bears' Halloween by Kathy Duval.  We practiced telling the sequence of the story since that was our comprehension skill for the week.  We used candy corn to  remember that sequence means what happens first, next, and last in a story.  In this story, the bears go trick-or-treating first.  Next, they go in the witch's house.  Last, they run home.  Oh, and of course we go to eat a real candy corn so that we would "for sure" remember what sequence means.  And, to finish our activity we compared two stories...Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Three Bear's Halloween.

Ten Timid Ghosts

A friend of mine shared this idea with me a couple of years ago and it is so much fun to do with my kids.  Check out her blog at http://krazyforkindergarten.blogspot.com.  We read the story Ten Timid Ghosts by Jennifer O'Connell.  It's about a witch that moves into a haunted house where 10 ghosts live and she decides she wants them out.  So, she tricks the ghosts by scaring them out one by one.  The last and clever ghost decides that they must get their house back so they band together to scare the witch and get her "out".  We made haunted houses and used lima beans for our "ghosts".  We colored one more bean green for the witch, then the fun part...retelling the story!  The kids loved it!