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Come and visit Josie’s Place

I love to create organizational items to help you in your classroom. If you see something in my store and would like for me to create it in your color scheme, just let me know.

Enjoy back to school with these free signs for your first day back! Grab them here for grades K-6!

Start the year off right with organizing your classroom with a variety of labels.  Use them to organize your books, bins, centers and so much more.  Here are just some of my editable labels!!  There is the regular, mega pack, and ultimate edition with more than 20 styles and 120 labels in all!

Labels not your thing? Grab these editable signs here. These are great for posting standards. 

Organize all your math manipulatives with this great set that includes picture clues for younger students and words for older students. Grab it here!

Decorate your room with your choice of editable class décor packs to fit your style –  chalkboard decor, chevron, polka dots, and more!

This 200 page Seuss style decor bundle was just added and it’s EDITABLE as well! Check  it out here and pick up your FREE READ banner too!

CLICK HERE TO SEE SOME MORE!

In the beginning of the year, I love to create a memory book that starts in September and lasts through June.  When complete, children can go back and look at their work.  They will  see improvements in their handwriting, drawings, and more as the year progressed.  It also serves as a reminder as to what activities they enjoyed  each month.   Bind/staple it into a memory book that will be something that parents and children will cherish forever.  Great for all levels as there is paper with additional lines for older students.

I also have a thing about writing paper.  I love to have students publish their work on fancy paper- students seem to work extra hard making their best work shine!

There is paper for all grades and even for the writing program, Handwriting Without Tears.  Find the one that's right for you and grab some FREE writing paper at my store by clicking here!

If you're planning ahead and love to get a bargain, these are great for K-1:

Label It! has been a favorite and best seller in my store since the beginning.  Students label themed pictures throughout the year and can feel successful because the can complete it independently.  It is a fun way to practice such an important skill. 

Check it out and download the FREEBIE in the preview.  If you love Label It! you can also check out Label It! Second Edition as well.

 Get to know your kids with this All About Me Book.  It’s also great to put on your student’s desk. for Meet the Teacher Night. Grab it here.

For October, check out Octoberfest for Kids - over 80 pages of themed activities and 4 emergent readers.

Check it out here. Grab a free color by number too!

For December, you'll love Polar Express - it's one of my all time favorites.  You can use these themed activities throughout the whole month and plan a Polar Express Day with ease!

Check it out here. Grab a free elf and gingerbread man color by number too!

I hope you have a great start to school - thanks for checking out my blog and store. 

As a thank you, please grab this free Welcome Banner for your class here.

Below is a mini version to show you what it looks like. t's easily put together and looks great with a ribbon!

Halloween!

So October is officially here!  

You can look forward to the crisp cool mornings and the beautiful fall leaves. I love this season and everything about Halloween! I still love to carve pumpkins, do all the fall activities that kids do, and try anything that has the flavor of pumpkin!  Do you know how many items you can eat that comes in pumpkin flavor??

I created Octoberfest (for kids!) for some fun and engaging learning activities for kids K-1.  If you grab it this month, there's a bonus inside for you!

Octoberfest For Kids includes over 110 pages of math, language arts, science, writing, and art activities. It has 4 emergent readers (non fiction and fiction) and is aligned to the CC.

You can grab it here and get a FREEBIE too!

  

                                       

 Here are a few previews:

Practice missing addends with manipulatives

Non-Fiction & Fiction Emergent Readers

 (with an interactive book that teaches positional words)

Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Matching Activity

 *NEW* Label It! Activities- children practice the skill of labeling (this is one of my best selling items - see Label It! in my store for a closer view of this type of activity)

Grab a FREEBIE Color by Code Here!

Some other fall activities to enjoy:

You can keep them as leaves and measure them to see who has the longest leaf or create a picture with them!

 This month, we're working on non-fiction text features.  I decided to have the kids work on creating their own book about bats.  This tied in nicely with Halloween and the kids were so fascinated by bats.

In the beginning, students created a web with all the things they knew about bats. 

We read a lot of books about bats (both non-fiction and fiction) and learned how to take notes using a 'can, have and are' organizer.
We used the following books that were great for note-taking.

I liked this book because it was written in a Question & Answer format and was very simple for kids to understand.  It's also great for teaching what types of questions you would want to find out about bats.

These are some great  books available from Scholastic Books.

Amazing Bats is great for note taking for older kids. Below are other great books:

Stellaluna is a favorite book of mine.  You can have your class listen to it on storylineonline.  Sometimes it's nice for them to hear someone else's voice =) Click here for the book.
After Stellaluna, students compared the attributes of bats and birds.

We read this non-fiction reader about bats.  It's an interactive book where students identify and add in the missing text features on the pages in the book (not shown below). Comprehension questions and non-fiction text feature match up is included.

Here are some of the notes the kids took after reading some bat books.

Check them out!

Then, using their notes, students created a rough draft outline for their writing and then worked on their final draft. There is another outline enclosed for students who need more guidance.

 The kids followed these directions to draw a bat and cut it out for their front cover.

This bat is hanging upside down!  Pretty creative kids!

We labeled a diagram from a bat I made.  

Here's a final product!

Create your own Bat Unit in your class. 

Check out BATS here:

Here's  a preview:

Here are some adorable bat crafts/treats to go with this unit:

Check the original pin out here.

Check the original pin out here.

Check the original pin out here.

Check the original pin out here.

MORE FUN HALLOWEEN IDEAS

The kids loved all the Halloween snacks and crafts, but my favorite healthy snacks were these:

Pumpkins:
Clementines with celery sticks

Ghosts:

Bananas with chocolate chips (mini chocolate chips for the eyes and regular chips for the mouth!)