Fall Activities

We have been doing some really cool fall activities. Take a look!

My class loves to collect and sort leaves.

We did a leaf experiment by measuring leaves in different ways.

5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate

Life Cycle of a Pumpkin

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves

Apple Print Painting

Our Science Center:

-Pumpkin Seeds

-Growing a mini pumpkin

-Planting a pumpkin inside a pumpkin

-Our pet fish Swimmy

I found this idea on pinterest!

Planting a pumpkin inside a pumpkin! So Clever :)

We went on a field trip to pick pumpkins and then wrote about our favorite parts!

Hope you and your class have been enjoying fall.

If you would like to check out my autumn units on Teachers pay Teachers, click the links below.

Autumn Unit Plan

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves- Book Bag

Also check out the new units I've added... Dinosaurs and Thanksgiving!

Community Helpers

Community Helpers

We are learning about community helpers this week and next.

Today we talked about fire fighters and fire safety.

Here are some of the activities we did.

Fire Fighter Journal Writing

Skip Counting Fire Truck Puzzle

Be sure to check out my unit on Teachers Pay Teachers!

Colors of the Rainbow

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet!

We love the colors of the rainbow!

Each day was dedicated to a different color and the children wore the color of the day to school each day. We did different activities based on the colors. Here are a few activities below, and be sure to check out my unit plan!

After reading about rainbows, the kids filled out this page about you need in order to see a rainbow!

Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?

There are so many great color activities to tie into this book, and a bunch of them are included in my unit plan! Brown bear graphing, story retelling, color word book, and many more. This activity was a story sequencing book. After reading the book a few times I had the children recall what color each animal was and the order they appeared in the story. 

(The adorable clipart is from KMP Doodles!)

I found these cute cards on teachers pay teachers- for FREE!

It made a great center. We used letter beads to practice spelling color words. 

Oh how I love pinterest! 

I found this great idea on pinterest... for anyone who does not know about this website check it out!

They have so many wonderful ideas for teachers.. and so much more!

The kids LOVED this activity, it is the second week we are using it and there is still a line at our science center!

All you need is baking soda on a tray, pour cups of vinegar into a cup and add food coloring. Have the kids use eye droppers to squeeze the colored vinegar onto the tray. It makes a cool fizz and turns the baking soda rainbow. It is easy clean up and keeps the kids entertained. Give it a try!

Check out my unit on teachers pay teachers, over 70 pages of fun activities!

Colors of the Rainbow Unit

**More pictures to come this week :)

My Five Senses

This is such a fun unit! The kids always enjoy all of the activities.

I didn't have time to take many pictures from this unit because we did it during the first few weeks of school, but I will describe some of the activities. 

This is a sound jar activity. I gave each child a sheet and they had to cut out the pictures. Next, I shook each of the jars and they had to guess which items were inside. Then they had to circle whether they were correct or not. They had a lot of fun with this!

This is the cover of my unit available on teachers pay teachers. 

Other activities include: a taste test, feeling bags, sight game, and smelly jars. It also includes a journal page for each sense. 

Check it out! My Five Senses Unit Plan

Back To School

Hello! Today was our first day of school and it went great! It is so fun meeting the new little faces you will be getting to know. We are doing a chicka chicka boom boom theme this week. Today we read the kissing hand and made cute magnets for the children's families. I had the kids trace their hands, then cut them out and glue a heart in the middle. Then they put the poem on the bottom and I stuck a magnet on the back. So simple- but really cute! I wish I took a picture, but it was such a busy day. Tomorrow is all about chicka chicka boom boom- from letter writing to coconut tasting! I will try to take some pictures and update this weekend. Hope everyone has a wonderful first week of school!

Check out my back to school sale on teachers pay teachers. There are some great units for back to school- chicka chicka boom boom, all about me, community helpers - check it out!

Back to school sale!

Pen Pals

By far one of the coolest things we have done this year.

My best friend is doing a year of service in Paraguay.

She is teaching English.

We came up with the idea to have our kids be pen pals!

It really was incredible.

Here is our last batch of letters. 

Dear Jessica, Summer is coming and it is getting hot. I am 6. We are doing a play next week. I am going to Florida. Thank you for the letter. Love, Michael

Dear Deisy, It is getting warm, I hope you have fun making snow men. We are doing a play next week. We are learning about life cycles this week. Do you have a computer? Love, Hayden

P.S my name is spelled: Hayden

P.P.S: I have a lab 

Dear Cynthia, I have two cats. could you teach me guarmi? I am six. Were doing a play next week. I am going to first grade. What are you learning about in math? Do you have Cats? Do you go to first grade? Love, Ryan

Me and Juan Playing Soccer (Juan is his pen pal!)

Dear Juan, I like to play soccer too. We live in Johnston Rhode Island. I am six this summer. Were graduating next week. Did you ever watch star wars? I hope you have fun. Thank you for the letter. Love, Alberto

They came up with these all on their own!

The only direction was to answer their friends questions and come up with a question of their own. 

So cute and such a great experience for them!

Life Cycles

I was having some trouble coming up with a science topic for the end of the year,

so I thought about things my kids enjoyed learning about and came up with one of my new favorite units: Life Cycles!

It teaches kids about mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds, and Insects. 

Then there is a life cycle to go along with each.

The kids really loved it, especially since we watched so many life cycles in our classroom this year!

(Butterflies and Frogs!)

You can check out this unit on Teachers Pay Teachers. 

Life Cycle Unit

We also did alligators, clown fish, chickens, and more!

This is another cool unit I came up with recently. I was inspired by my kids love of word searches and graphing.. so I combined the two and this is what I came up with!

Check out the sample I made: Freebie!

If your kiddos love it as much as mine, purchase the whole unit: Sight Word Find & Graph Unit

It makes a great literacy or math center!