The blog documents the teaching ideas, lessons, and life of a grade one nut teaching grade one (first grade) to her squirrelly crew in Kelowna, BC, Canada.
Hee hee - I made a baby emoji flirty pumpkin at a pumpkin carving party I went to! Check her out!
OK - enough messing around...time for some....
First....
Based off of "It Didn't Frighten Me!!" by Janet L. Gross!
Your students can fill in a little frightening reader with adjectives and nouns to describe what might be outside their window in a tree. Of course, these spooky creatures or things don't frighten them...at first!!
Second...
Here are some of my students singing their little hearts out while practicing some basic subtraction!!
Watch the video below of these two singing "Three Chartreuse Buzzards" for the general tune for "Three Spooky Bats"
Happy Halloween!! Here is my cute make-up for my Vowel Bat costume! Find out how to do the make-up HERE. I ran around all day saving the world from words without vowels. My kiddos were so cute as they stared back at me and my craziness! The Grade 2's totally got it just like they did last year. My one's did try though! At one point during the day, one little girl exclaimed, "Miss N - look - a word without vowels!" I looked only to discover TO - hmmm - going to have to review the vowels - lol! I saved it anyways!!
In the morning, we wrote spider cinquain poems that I got as a freebie from Amy Lemons!
It was perfect because we have been working on nouns, verbs, and adjectives!
In the afternoon we had a little costume parade for our Grade 4 buddies.
Then, we rotated through 4 centres! I had a bazillion parent helpers who were all amazing!! We made spiders for our cinquaine poems.
We made Q-tip skeletons!! One of my favourite crafts! 13 Q-tips, lots of glue and chalk for the skull - Voila!
Next, was Don't Eat Pete!!! A freebie from The Teacher's Wife! We used chocolate bars instead of candy corn and the kids got to eat the chocolate bar that was on Pete. SO MUCH FUN! Afterwards they decorated Halloween goodie bags with stickers and felts.
Last, we had a spooky story listening centre!
We had treats and goodies afterwards. One sweet mom made these precious owl cupcakes - Pinterest idea I am told!!
When I wasn't looking this friendly lil guy appeared in my classroom! Hurrah!! Healthy treats!!!
So the combination of Halloween looming up, learning about subtraction and an old camp song - Three Charcoal Buzzards resulted in my newest freebie! Mix them altogether and you get Three Spooky Bats Songtivity! Click on the picture below for your copy.
I taught the kids the song and they sang it like camp pros! My crew - they love to sing! They even added a bat hiss sound effect - batrific! So I decided to make a little bat cave to help my kiddos practice subtraction and addition. As they sing they song, they can write out each equation with cute foamy bats from the craft store to match.
Meanwhile, the hit of the week was a couple of science experiments. My kids went batty over "Will the pumpkin float?" and "Will the Pumpkin Seeds Sink or Float?" The excitement was through the roof! They couldn't believe that the pumpkin floated and they were so happy to be right about the seeds floating!!
