It's About Time for THE MITTEN!

 

I so look forward to sharing THE MITTEN with my learners each January. Every edition of this Ukrainian folktale is delightful, but I confess Jan Brett's illustrations are my favorites. After sharing various versions of the book, poll your class to discover their preferred adaptation. Then, immerse your students in all things mittens.

Start with this thematic unit:

This product offers activities in language arts, math, and critical thinking. It even provides center work.

Extend this learning with these ELA resources:

MATH resources:

These CRITICAL THINKING activities are differentiated:

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IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for NATIVE AMERICAN MONTH!

November is Native American Month. How will you honor this special time?

I love to share 2 special books with my class, both by Tomie de Paola. Then we extend the learning with a plethora of activities.

The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush

Included in this product are activities for

literacy, speaking and listening, math, writing, and visual arts. There are materials for 2 literacy centers and 2 math centers. These extension activities relate to Native American culture, cover a broad range of subjects, and include differentiation ideas.

The Legend of the Bluebonnet

This thematic unit offers activities for literacy, math, social studies, and science, as well as visual and performing arts. There are materials for literacy, math, and writing centers. These extension activities relate to Native American culture and cover a broad range of subjects.

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for VETERANS' DAY!

 

Veterans' Day is Nov. 11. How will you honor our veterans?

The history of this special day seems like a great place to start. However, a dry recitation of the facts is uninspiring. Condense it with poetry!

This poem, and the Poetry Possibilities that accompany it, will provide a concise description of the day's origins.

Also found in this unit are poetry possibilities for pumpkins, Halloween, November, seasonal changes, Thanksgiving, and more! You can find this resource here:

Children's Book Week is also coming up, Nov. 3-9.

Celebrate it with poetry, too!

Naturally, there are teaching possibilities to accompany these poems. They can also be found in the Fall Poetry Possibilities unit.

IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for SCARECROWS!

Nothing says fall quite like scarecrows. Nothing makes your classroom feel quite so fall-like than filling it with scarecrows. So, it's about time, teachers, for SCARECROW resources.  

It's always great to start with some fun scarecrow stories.

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Not only will your learners collect data in making their scarecrow glyph, but you will have lots of scarecrows to decorate your room.

Immerse your students in scarecrow curricula, including activities in ELA, math, critical thinking, and craftivities, with this thematic unit.

Extend the learning with these resources:

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IT'S ABOUT TIME, TEACHERS, for PUMPKINS!

 

It's pumpkin season! Celebrate with these pumpkin resources:

PUMPKINOES are domino-style math activities that are perfect for your fall math centers. These games and challenges exercise skills ranging from counting to critical thinking; basic operations to H.O.T.S. 

PUMPKINOES are open-ended, easily differentiated, and useful for all elementary classes. Take a peak:

How Many Ways? – Fall Edition is an open-ended, math bulletin board that is perfect computation practice for any elementary classroom. Challenge your students' critical thinking and fluency to determine how many ways they can reach the target number by combining the values on the pumpkins. The task is similar to Boogle^(TM) for numbers. Post the operation symbols and the target number you choose to easily differentiate the task.

These Latin Squares math puzzles will challenge children's deductive reasoning skills and help them acquire the critical thinking needed to solve Sudoku puzzles.  PUMPKIN SQUARES begin with an easy, 3x3 grid appropriate for young learners. The tasks progress gradually, increasing in difficulty up to a 7x7 grid. PUMPKIN SQUARES are available in print or digitally on TPT Easel.