If you need teaching October/Halloween teaching resources for your first and second students, you have come to the right place.
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First Grade Writing Activities for October Help your students grow as writers with these First Grade Daily Writing prompts and activities designed for the month of October. Each day students will have a short writing prompt or activity to help them improve on key writing skills. October skills include identifying a missing letter (great phonics practice too), writing lists, using beginning, middle and end transition words, and just in time for Halloween - labeling Halloween themed pictures. These activities are perfect for your October morning work, exit tickets, center activities, writing center, small group instruction and intervention! Not all activities are Halloween or fall themed so they are easy to use at other times of the year too! This makes is easy to differentiate for the needs of your students all year long!
First Grade October writing objectives include:
- identify and write the missing letter in a word;
- writing lists;
- transition words;
- labeling Halloween pictures.
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Celebrate Halloween with this Write the Room literacy center. You can differentiate these activities by using the 3 levels of recording sheets included.
Post the picture or sentence cards around your classroom for students to search for.
According to the 3 levels of difficulty, students will be searching for
• letters,
• words or
• sentence cards
3.
Sentence practice can be fun and engaging with these Halloween themed sentence writing activities. This resource is perfect for October to get your students writing good sentences. This resource includes three different sentence writing activities for kindergarten and first grade students. Your students will love unscrambling the scrambled sentences, using a hands-on approach to building sentence, and being creative with the themed picture prompt. Don't stress about the holiday, instead use Halloween to engage your students into learning! Your students will love these fun independent worksheets and literacy center activities.
Halloween Themed Sentence Practice Includes:
Activity 1 - Scrambled Sentences
Print copies of each sheet and let students
• read the sentence
• build the sentence (cut and paste)
• write the sentence
• draw a picture to go with the sentence
Activity 2 - Build a Sentence
• Print and laminate the word cards.
• Students get all the cards with the same picture to build a sentence.
• Students write the sentences they made.
Activity 3 -Picture Prompt Sentence Writing Activity
• Print pages for students.
• Students pick a picture from the bottom of the page.
• Glue the picture in the box.
• Write a sentence about the picture.
4.
October is Fire Safety Month and many schools celebrate Fire Safety Week too. Teach your first or second grade students about the importance of fire safety while working on key reading and vocabulary skills. This Fire Safety resource includes eight different activities that are perfect for independent learning centers, whole group or small group lessons and independent work time. Your class will love the fire safety reader will learn all about staying safe with this 59 page packet.
Included are :
• Word Wall Vocabulary Cards
• Vocabulary Center Activity
• Fire Safety Read Aloud
• Fire Safety Student Reader
• Comprehension - Puzzle Center Activity
• Calling 911 – Sorting Center Activity
• Worksheets
• Student Fire Safety Badge
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Who says holiday learning can't help you met your standards? This Halloween themed resource is dedicated to helping your students practice their short vowel sounds. Using themed Halloween words, your students will be working on short vowel sounds with the 5 activities included. Your kindergarten and first grade students will have fun making scary Halloween short vowel words with the center activities and worksheets included in this resource. These activities are perfect for your literacy or word work centers during the month of October.
Short Vowel Practice - Halloween Theme includes:
•Clip Cards - Students will practice identifying the short vowel they hear in Halloween words.
•Word Mats - Students will practice building Halloween words and then record their answers on the response sheet
• Missing Vowels - Students will practice identifying the missing vowel
•Reading and Spelling Practice - Students color the word, write the word and build the word with 14 Halloween word worksheets.
•Wear it! - Students make a short vowel sound crown to wear home and show their learning
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First Grade Homework Calendar October 2019 EDITABLE Free. Make homework meaningful for your first grade students with this FREE Homework Calendar.
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
· After reading a story ask your child to retell it.
· Count to 25 forward and backwards.
· Write uppercase letters of the alphabet.
· Read a story about a pumpkin.
· Place 4 objects in order from largest to smallest.
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Write the Room Fire Safety is a great unit for your kindergarten, first-grade and second-grade students to use in October.
You can differentiate these Write the Room activities by using the 3 levels of recording sheets included.
Students will be searching for
• letters,
• words or
• sentence cards
As they find the cards, they record them in the space provided on the included recording forms. Let your kindergarten, first grade and second grade students have fun being detectives as they write the room.
You can differentiate these Write the Room activities by using the 3 levels of recording sheets included.
Students will be searching for
• letters,
• words or
• sentence cards
As they find the cards, they record them in the space provided on the included recording forms. Let your kindergarten, first grade and second grade students have fun being detectives as they write the room.
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October is the perfect time to learn about Nocturnal Animals (but you can use this at any time)! Take your students well beyond the traditional 'bat' and 'owl' lessons and teach them about some amazing night creatures. Your second and third grade students will love learning about 12 different nocturnal animals while practicing key reading and writing skills. Included is a reading passage about each animal, comprehension worksheets related to the student reader and related center activities. Perfect for a literacy or science center or whole class activity.
Included are:
•3 classroom posters about nocturnal animals,
•a student reader about the 12 animals (or use as 12 individual reading passages),
•a comprehension matching activity based on facts from the student reader,
•worksheets that go with the matching game and the student reader,
•animal picture and name cards that can be used at the pocket chart center,
•word wall cards
I hope you can find something helpful.
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