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Reading and Writing Color Words

September 18 By Linda Leave a Comment

Reading and writing color words in Kindergarten and First Grade. See reading and writing activities to help students build their sight word recognition and learn color words in context using the book Frankencrayon by Michael C. Hall.

Building a solid sight vocabulary in our youngest readers is key to their reading success. The ability to effortlessly recognize and read sight words increases both fluency and comprehension. I wanted to share a quick post about an adorable book I recently discovered.  It's a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Activities, Halloween Tagged With: book activities, color words, fall, Frankencrayon, reading

Five For Friday: Haunted Morph Houses & Blood Cell Diagrams & Halle Heart Museum

November 1 By Linda Kamp 1 Comment

Happy Saturday!  We survived Halloween!Here's a little peek at my week and how I kept little hands busy and  minds off of candy!-------------------------- 1-----------------------------We've been learning about nocturnal animalsfor a couple of weeks now and on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Halloween, Science Tagged With: blood diagram, Halloween, science, Stellaluna, vocabulary

Host A Halloween Math Party!

October 29 By Linda Kamp 2 Comments

Try these easy ideas for a Halloween math party perfect for 2nd and 3rd grade! We practiced second and third grade math skills with pumpkins, spooky math center activities, and candy as place value manipulatives. #halloween #math #2ndgrade #3rdgrade

Each year my teammate next door and I throw a Halloween math party.  It's become a yearly tradition that our kids love because it's fun! We love it because everybody's engaged and still learning, and our admin loves it because it's standards based. Win-win-win! It's always a huge … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fall, Halloween, Math Tagged With: fall, Halloween, MATH, math centers

Waving My Wand & Some Teacher Friend Freebies!

October 26 By Linda Kamp 8 Comments

Oh happy day, Halloween falls on a Friday this year! My class is already candy-crazed and talking about trick-or-treating!We have all sorts of gobliny goodness planned for our little friends and I am  breathing a sigh of relief that it all happens on a Friday! Until … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Halloween, Math Tagged With: freebies, Halloween teacher poem, math centers

Test Prep Halloween Style and a Freebie!

October 19 By Linda Kamp 13 Comments

Whew! Made it through that first nine weeks!  The end of the quarteralways means district benchmark testing for us andsince Halloween is right around the cornerI decided to do some test prep, Halloween-style! We used a lot of the activities in my FrankenLine Number Line … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Freebies, Gifts, Halloween, Math, Student Gifts, Teacher gifts Tagged With: freebies, gift tags, Halloween, Hey Girl, math centers

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