Pumpkins and Bats and Spiders…Oh MY!

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I linked up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching for her Five for Friday Linky Party. I thought I’d share five of our fave October-related activities!

For our hallway bulletin board, we combined a little art and writing. I always try to have some kind of writing on our bulletin board, and this project from the fab Reagan Tunstall fit the bill. They turned out AMAZING!

The Biggest Pumpkin Ever is one of my favorite Halloween books, and this idea is just too precious! Each kiddo created their own part of the pumpkin. It turned out so cute!

Since we were exploring so much nonfiction text, I thought it was a good time to introduce nonfiction text features. **Quick tip- When I do my monthly book order, I try and find nonfiction or thematic books for 100 points or less. I order 6 copies to use with my reading groups. I love tying their reading to our monthly themes!**

We have been studying spiders, so I focused our text feature learning around spider books. We first did a quick “noticing chart.” I didn’t snap a pic of this one. On day 2, I prepped by copying examples from a few spider books and magazines. I read through the texts, and as the kids noticed features, I glued them to the anchor chart.

You can grab the recording sheet here!

 (Fonts by Cara Carroll and Kimberly Geswein and border by Krista Wallden)

I demonstrated the process ahead of time and showed them how to add a little glue/water to one section and press down you tissue paper.

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