Halloween!

It's fast approaching... are you ready?  This week is going to be CRAZY.  It's our last week of the quarter, and we know all the kids will have on their minds is candy!  Hopefully we'll be able to be productive and finish assessments for report cards!

We LOVE holidays and incorporating them into our learning- it just makes it more fun, right?  Since Thursday is Halloween, we wanted to post a few of our halloween favorites.  Here are some things that we've done in the past or that we're planning to do...

Goofy Pumpkins!  We've been doing this project for a few years.  We originally found the idea from an awesome art teacher's Flickr page. We decided to turn it into a mini writing unit.  It makes an adorable hallway display!

Favorite Reads!  Here are some of our favorite stories for this time of year.  What are your favorite Halloween read alouds??

Retelling Pieces!  This is a little drama station that we made to go with There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat.  Click picture below to get your FREEBIE!!

Oreo Spider!  Who doesn't love yummy treats??  Here's a fun following directions activity that's also delicious...

Pumpkin Sight Word Game!  This is great to use to review sight words.  You can use fun halloween erasers for markers!  Click the picture for your freebie.

Literacy Stations!  Click the picture to download from our TPT store.  :)  The Frank's Sight Words is a freebie!

Poems!  Click the poem titles to download the PDF for each!  Each PDF has two poems per page, perfect for shared reading journals!

Pumpkin Picking and Five Little Pumpkins

Happy Halloween!  :)

Welcome!

Welcome!

Thank you for stopping by.  We have been contemplating starting a blog for a while, and we've finally decided to jump on board!

A little about ourselves... we are two friends from Virginia (born and raised!) who have known each other for almost 15 years (wow- time flies!!!!)  Throughout high school we knew we both wanted to teach little ones.  We worked at a daycare together, did a teacher cadet program senior year, and then went into teaching in college.  We both ended up getting our masters degrees at UVA and moving back home to teach.  We both teach first grade at different schools in the county and LOVE it!

We spend a lot of time together brainstorming teaching ideas, coming up with activities, and sharing school stories.  We love checking out what other teachers do on other blogs, and we hope we can share some ideas with other fellow teachers.  Thanks for stopping by.  Check back for more posts.  We're excited about the upcoming holidays and will be posting some of our favorite activities!

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