reader's response

October is flying by! Not surprised at all . . . I have so much to share, but I am too exahusted to bother with uploading my pictures. I already had these on my computer from earlier this month. Here are a few little reader's response activities inspired by things seen on pinterest. My school board is filled with so many amazing ideas. The problem is I want to do them all!

This idea came from came from Eberhart's Explorers

This class book idea came from Eberhart's Explorers

This idea came from Growing kinders

Oh, and our adorable apple graph from Deanna Jump's apple unit. They painted their favorite apple and cut it into a circle and glued it on our tree.

Up next . . . spiders!

and we've been busy.

Here is a freebie for you. Single serving cupcake boxes make the perfect dice.

There was an old lady who swallowed . . .

I love sequencing the old lady who swallowed . . . books with my class. Last week we read There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves. Then we sequenced the things she swallowed. They also drew what she swallowed.

Click the picture below to download

I pulled out all my Halloween books and put them in this basket from Target for read aloud.

nouns and a noun town

For this activity I wrote sentences on sentence strips. We read the sentences aloud together and then they helped me find the nouns by adding a sticky note to the noun.

After you have taught your kids that a noun is a person/animal, place, or thing you can have them complete the noun tree map. Depending on their ability you can have them write or draw the noun. You could even have them cut out pictures from magazines and glue the pictures in the correct box.

Click below to download the noun tree map in English and Spanish.

We also made a noun town. I had lots of small white construction paper squares and let the kiddos draw their hearts out. They loved this activity and came up with some amazing nouns. I especially liked the things they drew for people to hold.

This idea is from First grader . . . at last!

Columbus day

For Columbus day we watched a Columbus movie on BrainPop Jr. You can watch it here. We read this cute book, it's a good one.

Then we did this adorable TLC art from Deanna Jump's blog. They turned out so cute! I love how they all look so different.

We are very excited for Halloween over here!! Since that is all my kids can talk about during calendar time I decided to make a count down to candy. I got this idea from First Grader at Last.

apples

Here is a look at some of the fun things we have been doing.

Click the picture below to get a copy of  apple measuring.

My apple unit is finally finished and uploaded onto TPT and Teachers Notebook! Many of the activities above are in the unit. I started this thing back in July and have been too busy to finish it up. Hopefully y'all can still use it. I'm still finishing up apples over here so I'm sure I'm not alone. Any of the above pictures will take you to the unit.

labels

We started out with this anchor chart seen on The Inspired Apple and Eberhart's Explorers. They helped me label the cat then we looked for labels around the classroom, that wasn't hard.

They even labeled me! They thought it was hysterical when someone created a label for my teeth and bottom. My labels kept falling off, you will need super sticky post-its. This idea came from Julie Lee.

I pulled out my huge apple and had them help me label the parts (the labels are from What The Teacher Wants)

Then they practiced labeling by making their own apple and labeling the parts.

This is my example, I saw this on First Grader at Last.

Since this little lesson they have been labeling their drawings on their own!!

Pete the Cat

Oh we love Pete the Cat! He is just so darn cute! He reminds my kids to have a good attitude and not whine or complain. Here are a few of the activities we did from Deanna Jump's Pete the Cat unit.

Pete helped us sort sounds. We sorted sounds while singing this fun song.

He also helped us learn about fiction books and characters

{This fun idea was from Abby over at the inspired apple}

We also made a class book. We love reading it!