Fall Feature from Kinderkay

Hello Friends!

This is Cindy from Kinderkay products! Just as many of my Blog Hoppin' friends have stated  in previous posts, I love Fall! The colors, the crisp air, and the Fall holidays! Fall is full of family fun and it is also fun to enjoy this lovely season with my students!

One unit that I LOVE to teach is Nocturnal Animals! For those of you who cannot teach Halloween in your school, this is such a perfect way to enjoy some of the thrill of spooky nighttime without ghouls or ghosts!

In my classroom, I teach my students to create illustrations for our science/social studies using step by step procedures for drawing and/or cutting.  By this time of year, my students have a good handle on how to look at pictures and find shapes and lines to reproduce. We have a discussion of each animal, compare and contrast their features with other animals, and then they illustrate their pages. The words on each page are kept simple so that when they take their book home, they are able to share what they have learned with their parents.

Here are some pictures of their book illustrations. You can see that some of them were created from paper and some were drawn. Whether we create from paper or draw is dependent upon time. It does take a bit more time to cut from paper, so if our time is limited, I tell my kiddos to draw and color. These were all done by kindergarten kids.

Here are some "action" photos!

 If you are short on time, but still want to do the mini unit, I have also included coloring pages of the book!

We make 3D bats and owls which is a fun way to compare 2D and 3D shapes! We use TP rolls and Styrofoam balls for the bat and a brown cup turned upside down with a styrofoam ball head for the owl. Click HERE for directions on how to create the owl. Click HERE for directions on how to create the bat. These are a couple of years old and I have revised them a bit, but the basics are still the same!

We  do a Venn diagram to compare and contrast bats and owls - which I am sure MANY of you do with your little ones! If  you do not have your own compare/ contrast activity, click the image below to grab your copy!

As a final evaluation of their understanding of nocturnal animals, my kiddos create a NOCTURNAL/DIURNAL poster. Such a fun way to assess!

Click the image below to go to my NOCTURNAL ANIMAL packet.

And lastly, for those of you who CAN do Halloween, my Halloween Draw, Cut, Create Packet has been revised - just in time for Halloween! If you purchased it, make sure you go to Your Purchases tab and re-download it!

Happy Fall, Everybody!!

Blessings,

Fall Feature from Curls and a Smile

Hey there!
This is Lynda from Curls and a Smile and I am so super excited to be participating in Blog Hoppin's Fall Features!

 

Fall is one of my favorite times of the year! Cooler weather, Pumpkin Spice Lattes and football are make a welcome return after a long hot summer.
My favorite holiday of the year is also in the Fall....

Thanksgiving!

 As the holiday comes closer, I absolutely love to teach about the Pilgrims and Native Americans.

My students do a week long study of the what life as a child in 1621 could be like and compare the way they lived then to our loves now.

 

This resource was created with my students in mind. They love to write about our country's first Thanksgiving. Each page is set up to allow the students to use a graphic organizer to collect information about each child's way of life in the 1620's and pages to create a book as well. The kiddos love to take these home and share them with their families over Thanksgiving Break. 

 

 

After the holiday, students are always so excited about their fabulous time off with their family. I use this as an opportunity to take my kiddos through the writitng process. This resource includes everythign you would need to have a great week of writing! It includes graphic organizers, plan sheets and pages for a final draft as well.

 

 

These two resources provide for about 3 weeks of reading and writing instruction!

Can't beat that! Check it out here in my TpT Store!

 

I also have this super fun freebie just for you! 

I created this for my stations as to add a little Fall fun to my students free write during stations!

 

 

Enjoy!



Fall Feature from Erica Bohrer

Hi Everyone!

Erica here from Erica's Ed-Ventures with some bat and Halloween themed ideas and freebies!

First up bats!   I love teaching the students about bats and they love learning about them.   I sell a Batty for Bats Unit on TpT.  Here is an easy freebie from the unit.  It is a bat acrostic poem.  The students created the bat by tracing their handprints on black construction paper.   Click the photo to download the acrostic poem.

You can check out my bat unit by clicking the image below.

Here are a few Halloween themed freebies for you!  Just click to download.

Candy corn estimation center:

Here is the sign I put on my Halloween candy. 

For some other great math centers, check out my Halloween Themed Math Centers Packet.

I made these counters out of lima beans that I  spray painted white.  I used a black Sharpie to draw on the faces.

Here are some of the math centers from the packet.

I hope you are having a great fall! Thanks for reading!

-Erica