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Pumpkin Activities

Top 10 Pumpkin Activities To Do After Halloween

movement breaks for the classroom

Why Movement Breaks in the Classroom Matter — and 3 Fall Tools to Make Them Fun

Pumpkin Patch Dramatic Play Set

Pumpkin Patch Dramatic Play

Apple Orchard Dramatic Play

Apple Orchard Dramatic Play for the Classroom

6 Fall Picture Books Your Students Will Love

6 Fall Picture Books Your Students Will Love

Halloween dramatic play

Hocus Pocus Lab Halloween Dramatic Play

top 10 classroom apple activities

Top 10 Classroom Apple Activities

apple activities for first grade

A Week of Apple Activities for First Grade

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For years, our St. Patrick’s Day tradition was a b

For years, our St. Patrick’s Day tradition was a baked potato bar and my first graders loved it! 🥔🍀 So I turned it into a Snack in a Cup activity you can easily do in your classroom.

Students follow along with the mini reader to make their own baked potato snack while practicing reading directions, teamwork, and sequencing. They can also predict their favorite toppings, survey classmates, graph the results, and complete fun math and writing extensions. There is even an adorable baked potato craft and a parent donation letter to make planning simple.

It is the perfect hands on activity that combines reading, math, and a delicious treat your students will never forget.

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"I had just as much fun as my students did on Potato/St. Patrick's Day! It was a fun twist on what I normally prepare for St. Patrick's Day. The potatoes in a cup were a hit! Thank you for creating this fun resource. "
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It’s Mine by Leo Lionni is a wonderful story for t

It’s Mine by Leo Lionni is a wonderful story for teaching important lessons about sharing, cooperation, kindness, and friendship. This engaging book companion is filled with comprehension strategies and activities that can easily be differentiated for all learners. It is a perfect story to read in the spring and pairs nicely with an amphibian unit.

Students will practice key reading skills such as predicting, identifying characters and setting, finding the main idea and details, sequencing events, and determining problem and solution. Additional activities focus on text connections, author’s purpose, point of view, inferencing, character change, vocabulary, and understanding the story message.

The resource also includes word work activities like ABC order, syllables, making words, word search, and word scramble. Writing extensions give students opportunities for retelling, opinion writing, and listing ideas connected to the story. To integrate math, students can complete surveys, tally and graph their data, play a gameboard activity, practice doubles with bingo, and use the Hoppin’ Frogs cover board.

Students will also enjoy creating the fun frog standing craft and displaying their work with the included bulletin board letters that spell “Sharing Is Caring.”

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F is for Friendship Day in our ABC Countdown to Su

F is for Friendship Day in our ABC Countdown to Summer. This is a wonderful way to celebrate the friendships your students have built all year long.

Students can make a special friendship snack, talk about the qualities of a good friend, interview classmates, create friendship bracelets, make friendship flowers, and even design a class deck of cards to play games together. It is a meaningful way to reflect on kindness, teamwork, and the friendships formed throughout the school year.

Looking for other ideas for the letter F?

Field Day is a popular choice and many schools already have one planned near the end of the year.�
Frog Day is another fun option. Students can wear green and spend the day learning about frogs and their life cycle. The book I Don’t Want to Be a Frog by Dev Petty is a great read aloud to go along with this theme.�
Fish Day is also a great science connection where students can learn about what makes a fish a fish and explore this interesting animal group.

Fruit Day learn about different fruits, or pick a specific one. I have a themed day for blueberries, strawberries, and lemons that would work here too.

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What would you add for the letter F? Let’s share ideas below!

Join me every night at 7:00 EST to see what the next letter will be in the ABC Countdown to summer! ☀️

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This Leprechaun Theme Day has everything you need

This Leprechaun Theme Day has everything you need to make March 17th magical and you can use the activities all month long. Students will love the phonics games, math activities, writing extensions, nonfiction leprechaun reader, rainbow activities, crafts, and even a Lucky cereal snack with graphing.

There are also fun extras like adopt a leprechaun activities, a leprechaun poem, center games, and colorful bulletin board pieces. It is a full day of engaging, hands on learning your students will never forget.

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Are you raising caterpillars in your classroom thi

Are you raising caterpillars in your classroom this spring? This Butterfly Life Cycle Unit makes it easy to teach metamorphosis while integrating science, reading, and writing all in one place.

Students will document each stage in a 20 page butterfly journal, explore real photographs of eggs, chrysalis, and butterflies, complete engaging writing activities, and create an adorable caterpillar and butterfly craft. It pairs perfectly with a cup of caterpillars and favorite mentor texts like The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Monarch Butterflies.

This resource is packed with nonfiction comprehension, life cycle sequencing, vocabulary, word work, and meaningful writing connections for K to 2 classrooms.

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“The resource provided structure, as my students new to get out their 'Butterfly Books' each day during our Science block. There were pages to provide information followed up by a review and text-to-self connection. My students loved coloring the images and comparing themselves to caterpillars and butterflies. They were able to take home their entire journal at the end of the year and teach their grownups and siblings all about the butterflies. If that wasn't enough, this resource also included extensions to Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" which provided engaging activities for the days when our caterpillars needed us to stay away. All very developmentally appropriate with minimal writing (which was perfect for my crew last year)! I would recommend this resource to K, 1, or 2 teachers.”

“I use this every year with my butterfly unit! It is the best packet I have found to go along with the unit full of information, but not too much that it overwhelms. I like to pick through to get the sheets that I want and make a book for the kids to go through.”

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Looking for a fun spring treat to make with your c

Looking for a fun spring treat to make with your class? Bird Nest in a Cup is the perfect hands on activity that combines reading, math, and a delicious reward at the end.
Students will follow along with the mini recipe book to make a simple no bake cheesecake bird nest treat. As you make the snack together, students practice reading directions, working as a team, and learning how to follow a sequence.

This activity also includes opportunities for predicting, surveying, graphing, and collecting data so students can apply their math skills in a real life situation. After the snack, students can complete a fun bird nest craft, class graphing activities, and differentiated writing extensions.

Everything you need is included, even a parent donation letter and mini recipe cards students can take home to share with their families.

If you loved Pumpkin Pie in a Cup, you will definitely love this spring version.

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