Halloween and October Resources for Pre-K and Kinder

October is here and you know what that means! Tons of thoughts of ghosts, goblins and fun. Here are a few October products you can use with your Pre-k or kindergarten class.

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This resource has both reading and math center activities and worksheets.

READING:

There are 8 different word families included (at, an, ake, ing, og, ug, ar, op). Each onset and rime pair and the corresponding pictures are printed on pieces of candy corn.

Simply print and laminate the pages, and cut the pieces of candy corn into 3 parts. Students build the word and match the picture with the word.

Students can make a crown with onset and rimes to wear during class. Then they complete the included worksheets.

MATH:

Your students will have FUN practicing addition facts 1-10 with these candy corn puzzles and word problems. Print, laminate and cut the candy cards apart. Students will see there are many ways to make a sum of 10.

This activity is great as a small group math lesson or as a center activity. We have included a self-check page so your kids can work independently and worksheets for them to complete.

For the word problems, the students read the problem, draw a picture to go with it, write the 2 numbers and the addition statement.

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This Halloween themed alphabet resource includes:

• Clip-It Cards Uppercase - find the matching lowercase letters
• Clip-It Cards Lowercase - find the matching uppercase letters
• Black and White Clip-It Cards for an ink saving option
• Handwriting Practice Worksheets
• Color by Letter Worksheets (matching uppercase and lowercase)
• Letter Search Activities
• Alphabet Mini Books - a foldable book that focuses on writing each letter

There are some activity sheets that are not overtly Halloween that could be used any time during the year. Some examples include the alphabet mini books (no Halloween images), a frog and pumpkin letter search, and the handwriting practice pages.

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This Halloween math resource will give your kindergarten students a fun opportunity to practice math skills and get into the “spirit” of Halloween! With 5 different Kindergarten, CCSS aligned activities they won’t even think about the important skills they are working on!

This unit contains:

• Matching numbers, number words and sets.
• Adding 1 more
• Comparing length
• Counting how many
• Sorting more, less and the same

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Build upon the excitement your students already have for Halloween, with these fun math and literacy centers and activities designed for kindergarten. Your students will be working on important skills like counting sets, patterning, rhyming and so much more. These hands-on Halloween centers are ready to print, cut and use. The Halloween worksheets are no-prep! Just copy and go. All of these activities are great for whole class learning, small group instruction, independent learning centers, morning work or homework. Just choose what works best for you and your students!

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Writing activities designed for Kindergarten or early writers. These writing prompts will have your kinder students writing every day with activities designed just for kindergarten! Make a monthly writing journal to watch your students' progress.

Our kindergarteners write every day with these weekly booklets. Use this packet as a quick write warm up for your Kindergarten students.

October, month 2, has your students practice writing numbers. (November will practice individual letters.)

✎ Week 1 - starts with a per-assessment on page 1, then presents the numbers 1-4 and the number words.

✎Week 2 - practices writing the numbers 5-9 and the number words.

✎Week 3 - practices the number and word ten, numbers 1-10, even and odd numbers.

✎Week 4 - incorporates counting Halloween pictures and can be used as a post-assessment for writing numbers.

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No Prep Print and Go with this Pk – K morning work. There are 25 black and white pages for your little ones to practice emergent reading skills.

This packet includes:

• 5 pages with syllables, letter identification, vocabulary, math, and concept discrimination.

• 5 pages of identifying rhyming words

• 5 pages of initial sound awareness

• 5 pages of numbers

• 5 pages of letter matching

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Fire Safety Month is in October and many schools celebrate Fire Safety Week. If you are looking for fun and engaging resources for your pre-k or kindergarten students then look no further. This 53 page resource is packed with nine fire safety center activities, fire safety worksheets and a fire safety reader. Your students will love learning about fire safety while working on key literacy and vocabulary skills too!

Fire Safety Activities Include:

• Word Wall Vocabulary Cards
• Word Work Center Activity
• Word Work Worksheets
• Read Aloud– Fire Safety
• Sequencing– Stop, Drop and Roll
• Be a Fire Marshal – tour your school with a checklist for staying safe
• Sorting Hot and Cold Center Activity
• Sorting Worksheet
• Student Sight Word Reader (I, see, a, the)

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Make homework meaningful for your students with these FREE Homework Calendars. If you have specific objectives this month that are not included you can edit each day’s item by highlighting the text you want to change and typing a new skill.

Students and their families will enjoy activities such as:

• Before reading a book point out the title of the book, the front cover, and the back cover.
• Place 3 objects in order from longest to shortest.
• As you go on a walk or drive, count the number of red cars, or, cats, or trees, etc., that you see.
• Draw 5 pumpkins with 2 leaves on each.
• Give your child a pile of dry beans. Ask him to count out a set of 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

I hope you find something you can use!