Spooktacular Reading Fun: Get Ready to Laugh and Learn!

Hey there, fellow primary educators! As Halloween draws near, why not sprinkle some spooky excitement into your reading lessons? Today, we're diving into a treasure we found on Teachers Pay Teachers – the "Free Halloween Read the Room Sight Word Practice." It's a resource that's going to take your reading lessons to a whole new level with a Halloween twist. Get ready to discover how you can use it to create a reading experience that'll leave your students howling (with laughter and knowledge)!

What's Inside the Resource:

This resource comes packed with 12 read the room sentence cards, sight word cards, and a read the room recording sheet. It's the perfect mix of fun and learning, designed to help your young readers master sight words with a Halloween flair. Let's get into the details of how you can make the most of it in your classroom.

How to Jazz Up Your Reading Lessons:

Setting the Stage:

First things first, gather up those sight word cards included in the resource. You can either pop them into a pocket chart or display them on the board. These sight words are going to be your secret sauce for this spooky adventure!

The Great Sentence Scavenger Hunt:

Now, here's where the magic happens. Take those 12 sentence cards, each one a riddle or a clue to a Halloween mystery. Scatter them in various nooks and crannies around your classroom – under desks, on shelves, maybe even behind the teacher's desk (it's a treasure trove, after all).

The Student Mission:

Equip your students with a read the room recording sheet and set them loose on their mission. Armed with their recording sheets, they'll embark on a journey around the room, tracking down those mysterious sentence cards. When they find one, they'll read it carefully and fill in the blank with the correct sight word. It's like solving a reading mystery!

Spooky Delights in Every Sentence:

The sentence cards are brimming with Halloween-themed fun. Your students will encounter sentences like "The __________ is spooky," or "I see a ___________ witch." They'll use the sight words from the display to complete these sentences on their recording sheets. It's learning with a hint of eerie excitement!

The Recording Sheet is Their Map:

The read the room recording sheet is like a map guiding your young adventurers through the haunted classroom. As they collect sight words and complete sentences, they'll be learning and having a blast simultaneously.

With the "Free Halloween Read the Room Sight Word Practice," you can transform your classroom into a thrilling reading adventure just in time for Halloween. Not only will your students conquer sight words, but they'll also be immersed in the magic of the season. Get ready for a spooktacular reading experience that'll leave your little ones with smiles as wide as a pumpkin's grin! Happy Halloween reading, fellow educators! 🎃📚👻

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Halloween Sight Word Practice

Halloween Sight Word Practice

Add a little Halloween fun to your sight word practice!  Two great stories that use repeated text and high frequency words can be found in the Hameray Publishing catalog.

With repeated sentence structure and picture support for the word that changes in each sentence, Halloween Night is a fun and easy read for your beginning readers. 

If you're looking for a little bit more of a challenge, Joy Cowley's Spooky House is a good choice. Two children approach a haunted house, becoming progressively more frightened as they move deeper into the house.  Finally, they see and hear something that causes them to turn tail and run, all the while convincing themselves that they are very brave.

 

As you can see, there are many sight words included in both books.  The repetitive text makes it easy for even your approaching level readers to pick up the rhythm of the words.

A fun follow up activity is to play Read-the-Room Halloween Style. 

                                             

It's a simple game to play with your whole class, or you can set it up as center.  Simply take the numbered cards and place them around the room.

Place the sight word cards in a pocket chart or display on the board for the children to refer to while they read the room.  They will copy the word onto their answer sheet that complete the sentence on their card as they move from card to card.

                         

You can find this FREE resource by clicking on any of the above pictures of the resource.

So take advantage of the excitement of Halloween and the abundance of great Halloween stories to squeeze in some fun Halloween themed sight word practice!

Aloha August Sale Day 2 - Free & 50 Friday

What does Free & 50 mean?  Well, it means you are going to get a free sample from a product, and then you can get that product for 50% off when you fall in love with the sample!  Sweet deal, yes?  Yes!

For my Free and 50 offering, I'm trying to think ahead a bit and decided to put my Halloween  MegaPack on sale.  This fantastic resource is a bundle of two of my math-based centers that focus on relating addition and subtraction and practicing subtraction, and two of my language arts-based centers that focus on adjectives and nouns and verbs.  These are perfect for centers or small group work, with accompanying printables that you can use with the whole class.

To get your free sample from this resource, this adorable Old Mrs. Witch shape art project that goes along with my adjective resource, you need to click on the picture below and then click on the preview button.  From there, you can download the pieces to make this and the follow up adjective activity!

Be sure to type freefiftyfri in the search bar on TpT to find this and other great samples and 50% off resources!

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An InLinkz Link-up

Yesterday I posted my plan to Boo my kids.  Today, I boo'd the first four while they were at library class.  They were so excited when they came back!  Here's the first four boo-ees.

 

And today we finally decorated our pumpkin for the pumpkin contest.  All money donated goes to the church food pantry to buy pies for needy families' Thanksgiving dinner.

Fun times in First Grade!  If you want to boo your kids, you can grab my cards by clicking on the picture of the kids up above.

Boo-ing the Students

Tomorrow I will begin boo-ing my students.  I'm so excited about this because this is the first year I've done this.  I've never even heard of it before.  I can't wait to see their faces each day between now and Halloween as they anticipate who will be boo'd next!  What fun!  I whipped up these boo cards to put with a small treat on their desk -- Halloween tattoos and a pencil and a pack of Smarties.  If you would like to boo your kids, feel free to grab them from my TPT site.  Just click on the picture to go get yours!

Happy Halloween and BOO to you!

A Haunting Freebie for You!

I was going through my 26-year-old October box that has traveled from Florida  to Pennsylvania and three different schools with me, and I came across some haunted houses I made my very first year teaching in Florida!  As I was looking at them, trying to figure out what to do with them, I thought, "I know!  I'll make a math center from them!"  Thus was born the idea of Haunting Facts.

I knew I would need to come home and make some bats, so I decided to throw in some haunted houses and give you all a copy of my Haunting Facts center to thank you for following me.  I hope you and your kiddos enjoy using the center.

 

If you like this Halloween math center, check out my Teachers Pay Teachers store for my other Halloween activities.

A Halloween Sale

I'm having a Halloween Sale over at my TPT store.  You'll get 20% off all my Halloween products.  Now would be a great time to get that Halloween product you have on your wishlist!

Let the Halloween Fun Begin!

Hey, everyone!  I can't believe how fast the past week went.  I'm still struggling with that cough, but it's slowly getting better.  I really love this time of the school year because the kids are finally settling into the routine, the weather has cooled -- a real blessing in our un-airconditioned 80+ year-old building -- and I can relax a bit and have fun with the kids, knowing that the classroom management is firmly established.

I've started pulling out all the Halloween decorations and Halloween songs, and the Halloween fun will begin after Columbus Day ends!   Here is a perennial favorite Halloween song that I included in my Notebook file of Halloween songs.  The kids get the biggest kick out of the dancing skeleton in "Skeleton Dance."

I would love for you to share any links to Halloween songs you have!

Have a great week!