From Seed to Jack-o-lantern...Interactive and Paper Pencil!

 

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From brightly colored, pumpkin themed anchor charts, SAVE MY INK practice pages, and a pumpkin craft to create a perfect pumpkin patch this packet will delight you.

The pumpkin theme fits perfect for October and into early November and contains activities that hit key Common Core Standards in reading, writing, and word work.

It contains activities and literature suggestions for:

How Many Seeds in A Pumpkin?

It's Pumpkin Time

Gail Gibbons Pumpkins

From Seed to Pumpkin...Scholastic

Pumpkin, Pumpkin

The Lumpy Pumpkin

At the end we placed a few math games into the "patch"!

In the packet you will find:

PUMPKIN THEMED VOCABULARY CARDS 

Word Search

ABC Order

Let's Make Words

Includes materials for a word work center

PARTS OF SPEECH...ADJECTIVES,NOUNS,VERBS

Colorful anchor charts on each

Colorful vocabulary cards for each

Save My Ink practice pages

5 Practice pages

PUNCTUATION

Commas with multiple adjectives

3 types of sentences

5 practice pages

WRITING...INFORMATIONAL, NARRATIVE, OPINION

Colorful anchor charts for each style

Practice pages include...

Graphic Orgnaizers

Prewrites

Final Copy forms in simple to complex forms

Page for illustration

POETRY

Anchor chart with poem

Poem with skills activity...identify adjectives

Write a sentence using adjectives

Pumpkin Personification

LITERATURE SUGGESTIONS

Informational, Realistic Fiction

My Lumpy Pumpkin

Pumpkin, Pumpkin

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?

Pumpkins by Gibbons

Comprehension pages for each literature suggestion

Mini book containing informational text

True or False follow up

Reading for Detail

MATHEMATICS...Pumpkin Themed

Data Collection

Word Problems

Ordinal Numbers

Patterns

Doubles...Gameboard with pumpkin Theme

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You will also love this Interactive Slide Packet!

Slide One:  Informational Text...Students use the text to complete sentences.

Slide Two:  Pumpkin Life Cycle...Students click and drag the pictures into the correct order.

Slide Three:  Using pictures as clues students will write a sequence story "From seed to Pumpkin".

Slide Four:  A special pumpkin poem filled with adjectives.  Students will click and drag the adjectives to the box.

Slide Five:  Syllables and Click and drag ABC Order

Slide Six:  Students will find their favorite pumpkin face and pumpkin treat and describe it.

Slide Seven:  Click and drag sequencing and click and drag pictures using ordinal numbers.

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Lion or Lamb

If today is any indication of how March will come in the lion is certainly roaring.

Cold, windy and we have over 6 inches of snow!!

This packet has:

Data Collection...Lion or Lamb

Let's Predict...Writing

Poem...Using text to recall

Weather Sort

Mini Book...Informational text

Graphic Organizer

Final Write pages

Butterflies

Butterflies are beautiful and a fabulous insect to learn more about.

Life Cycle

Metamorphosis

Insect

There are three differentiated forms of gathering informational text.

Activities focused on the life cycle.

Sequencing and writing about the life cycle.

Vocabulary 

ABC Order, Making Words, Word Search

Syllables for a literacy center.

Literature suggestions!

Activities to accompany The Hungry Caterpillar, I Wish I Was a Butterfly and Waiting for Wings.

My favorite is the Reader's Theater.

Your class will enjoy it.

Pictures for character labels.

Then to follow opinion writing...would a caterpillar make a good pet?

October Poems

Poetry is one other genre for students to enjoy reading.

October:

Leaves

Costume

Christopher Columbus

Bats

Campfire

Each poem has a poster, bookmark, poem for students to read and complete comprehension.  There is also a writing or data collection activity.

The final piece has students cut out sentence strips, put them in order and then draw a picture to tell about the poem.

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