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🎃🥣 Pumpkins + friendship + a little classroom dram 🎃🥣 Pumpkins + friendship + a little classroom drama = the PERFECT fall read-aloud! Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper is one of those stories that gives you SO much to talk about! Duck, Cat, and Squirrel have the perfect routine for making their pumpkin soup…until Duck decides he wants a different job. Uh oh! 😬 What follows is a wonderful story for discussing teamwork, friendship, sharing, kindness, compromise, and what happens when things don’t go exactly the way we want them to. ❤️ This literature companion takes those meaningful conversations even further with differentiated reading comprehension activities for sequencing, retelling, problem and solution, character analysis, feelings, text evidence, inferencing, story message, point of view, author’s purpose, and more! Students can also work on vocabulary and word work, complete writing activities, play a few fun math games, and create an adorable Pumpkin Retelling Craft to show the important events from the story. 🎃 It’s such a fun way to mix fall learning + reading comprehension + SEL all in one! And how cute would a “From Pumpkin to Soup” display be hanging in your classroom this fall?! 🍂🥣 🎃 Comment PUMPKIN or SOUP and I’ll send you the link! “We had a pumpkin theme in the library, and this was a great resource for multiple grades.” "This resource is filled with various activities that can be used to differentiate how my students retell the connecting story. My students loved it. " LinkDM *705*
🍎🛒 How cute is this Apples in a Wagon craft for fa 🍎🛒 How cute is this Apples in a Wagon craft for fall?! This is such a fun activity for apple week, September, October, or a fall bulletin board. Students can create their wagon as a regular craft, use the tear or no-tear option, or turn it into a fun glyph where they follow directions and share a little about themselves. Add a writing activity and you have an adorable display that’s meaningful too! 🍏❤️ Some of my favorite bulletin board sayings are “We Are One Sweet Bunch!”, “I Picked the Sweetest Class!”, and “Apple-solutely Awesome!” Perfect for adding a little fall fun to your classroom while building creativity and classroom community. 🍂🍎 Comment APPLE or WAGON and I’ll send you the link! #applecraft #fallcraft #appleweek #firstgrade #kindergarten #fallbulletinboard #septemberactivities #octoberactivities #firstgraderoars LinkDM *695*
There’s just something about those tiny faces and There’s just something about those tiny faces and prickly little bodies that makes hedgehogs so much fun to learn about—especially this time of year! ❤️ This Hedgehog Nonfiction Unit turns that natural curiosity into meaningful reading, research, and writing while helping your students practice important informational text standards. Students will become hedgehog experts with a 13-page nonfiction mini reader featuring a table of contents, headings, glossary, and bold vocabulary words. There’s also a matching colorful digital book with real photographs that you can project for whole-group learning, download as a PowerPoint, or even print for your classroom library. Then the real investigating begins! 🔎 Students can hunt for nonfiction text features, dig for important details, learn about hedgehog adaptations, build vocabulary, complete word work and writing activities, and put everything they’ve learned together in a research project. And of course, we have to finish with an adorable hedgehog craft! 🦔💗 Pair it with their research or writing and the included bulletin board letters for a display that is perfect for February! Perfect for nonfiction reading, animal research, science, literacy centers, or Research Friday! 🦔 Comment HEDGEHOG or LOVE and I’ll send you the link! 💕 “I used this hedgehog informational unit to enhance my summer school class on nighttime creatures, and it was a wonderful addition! The children loved learning about hedgehogs and were so engaged throughout the lessons. It was a fun and informative way to build their science knowledge while exploring fascinating nighttime animals.” “My students are crazy about hedgehogs. This is the perfect resource for some fun late fall research. They are all very excited!” LinkDM *111*
🍂 Singular or plural? One acorn or LOTS of acorns? 🍂 Singular or plural? One acorn or LOTS of acorns? 🌰🌰🌰 Make teaching singular and plural nouns easy and engaging with this 5-Day Singular & Plural Nouns Mini Unit! Everything is planned for you, with a full week of explicit instruction, interactive practice, independent work, centers, and a fun fall craft. This unit includes 60 digital Google Slides™ that you can project right onto your interactive board. Each day includes instruction followed by “We Do” and “You Do” practice, making it easy to model the skill together before students try it independently. After the digital lesson, students can reinforce their learning with daily printable worksheets and a colorful center sorting activity. At the end of the unit, bring everything together with an adorable foldable acorn craft where students can practice the difference between an acorn and acorns! 🌰 You’ll also receive bulletin board letters so you can display those cute crafts with “Nutty for Fall” or “Nutty for Acorns!” And because I know planning time is precious, I’ve included a weekly lesson plan template with standards and book suggestions to make your entire week even easier. 🙌 🍂 Included: 60 digital slides, 5 days of printable activities, a color center activity, foldable acorn craft, bulletin board letters, and a complete lesson plan template. Perfect for your first grade grammar block, literacy centers, small groups, morning work, or fall language lessons! 🌰 Teach it. Practice it. Sort it. Create it! Comment Plural and I’ll send you the link! 🧡 #firstgrade #firstgradegrammar #singularandpluralnouns #nouns #grammaractivities #languagearts #literacycenters #fallactivities #firstgradeteacher #firstgraderoars “You're grammar units are a big hit with my firsties! Easy prep for me and engaged learning for them! Thank you!” “I love every single grammar week that I buy! The slides are great and it comes with everything I need!” “I love how this resource takes learning little bits at a time, which is perfect for my firsties! Thank you!” LinkDM *794*
🍂📚 Two passages. One theme. SO much reading compre 🍂📚 Two passages. One theme. SO much reading comprehension practice! If you’re looking for an easy way to work on compare and contrast, reading comprehension, and fluency this October, these October Paired Passages are ready to print and go! 🙌 This set includes 8 passages organized into 4 themed pairs featuring topics your students will love learning about in October: bats, community helpers, Halloween, pumpkins, and spiders! Students read each passage, answer the included comprehension questions, and illustrate part of what they read. The passages can also be reread throughout the week for extra fluency practice. 📖 Once students have completed both passages in a pair, it’s time to COMPARE and CONTRAST! Students can use the included Venn diagram to write the similarities and differences themselves, or you can differentiate the activity by having them cut and paste the provided words onto the sorting mat. The paired topics include Bats & Let’s Make Sock Bats, Firefighters & Community Helpers, Halloween & The Pumpkin Lifecycle, and Spiders & Let’s Make an Orb Web. 🦇🎃🕷️🚒 These NO-PREP passages are perfect for whole-group instruction, small groups, independent reading practice, literacy centers, morning work, or your fluent readers who are ready for an extra challenge. One resource lets you practice reading comprehension + fluency + compare and contrast while bringing in all those October topics your students are already excited about! 🍂 Comment PASSAGES or OCTOBER and I’ll send you the link! 🧡 #firstgrade #pairedpassages #compareandcontrast #readingcomprehension #readingfluency #octoberactivities #literacycenters #firstgradereading #firstgradeteacher #firstgraderoars LinkDM *804*
🎃🟧 A square pumpkin in a patch full of round pumpk 🎃🟧 A square pumpkin in a patch full of round pumpkins?! That’s exactly what makes Spookley so special! ❤️ Spookley the Square Pumpkin is such a sweet Halloween read-aloud for teaching students that being different can be something wonderful. It’s one of my favorite stories to pair with pumpkins because there are SO many reading, writing, math, and SEL connections you can make! There are also plenty of writing, vocabulary, and word work activities. Students can describe Spookley, design and describe their own uniquely shaped pumpkin, retell the story, share their opinion, practice rhyming, syllables, ABC order, making words, and more. ✏️📚 And because SHAPES play such an important part in this story, I’ve included lots of 2D shape math fun, too! Students can complete shape sorts and puzzles, play shape games, survey and graph, and more. 🔺🟧🔵 Of course, my favorite part might be the Spookley Shape Craft! Students can choose from 10 different options to create their own unique pumpkin. Imagine an entire bulletin board filled with pumpkins that are all a little different! 🎃❤️ This is such a fun story for combining reading comprehension, math, writing, pumpkins, Halloween, and conversations about celebrating our differences all in one! 🎃 Perfect for October, Halloween week, pumpkin studies, reading comprehension, literacy centers, math centers, or a special read-aloud day! Comment SPOOKLEY or PUMPKIN and I’ll send you the link! 🧡 “I used this last year and will use it again this year! Spookley has always been a class favorite. This was a great resource for my students. They enjoyed the activities. “ “Spookley is such a well-loved character. This unit is perfectt for any fall planning. There is an incredible variety of activities. I used with a 1/2 combo. Easy to differentiate.” LinkDM *800*
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