Spooktacular Halloween Freebies

Halloween can be such a fun holiday. I love seeing how excited the kids become about their costumes and trick or treating. Since Halloween is coming up quickly, I wanted to share some Halloween freebies with you.

Sequencing Numbers 1-10 activity sheet - This is a practice sheet I made to have my kinders practice ordering the numbers from 1 to 10.

Halloween addition sheet - This is a simple practice sheet I created a few years ago when I was teaching first grade. I thought some of my firstie friends may be able to use it in their classrooms.

To make this even more fun, I am turning this into my first ever linky party. If you have a great Halloween freebie you would like to share with the bloggy world, please create a post and link up.

Zero the Hero Update

Last fall, I posted about using Zero the Hero in my classroom on each 10th day of school. My kinders have always loved this event and look forward to it. They also learn how to count up to figure out how many more days they have to wait for Zero the Hero to return to our classroom.

If you have not seen the other post, please click here for what we do for the 10th, 20th, and 30th days.

I have had a request for the other days, so here you go.

40th day:

40th day poem

50th day: I created a fall patterns sheet with 50 fall leaves.

50th day - patterns

50th day poem

60th day:

60th day poem

70th day: Since it is in Dec. near Christmas I had my kinders draw 10 lights on each strand on the Christmas tree for a total of 70.

70th day poem

70 Christmas lights

80th day: I gave my kinders a present with 8 sections. They drew 10 polka dots on each section to make a total of 80 polka dots.

80th day poem

80th Day - dots on present

90th day: We made a number line with numbers 1 to 90 by having the students trace the numbers and then cut out each strip. The students then put the strips together by putting a dot of glue on the star at the end of each strip.

90th day poem
90th day - number line

This year, I purchased the Zero the Hero Classroom Fun pack from Kreative in Kinder and I plan to incorporate it into my Zero the Hero days. It is a great pack if you have not purchased it already.

When I taught first grade, I had my students write about Zero the Hero at the end of each 10th day. Here is the writing paper, I used if you would like it.

Zero the Hero writing paper



Going Buggy

When we come back from Spring Break, we will begin our life cycles unit. We are beginning our unit with insects. I absolutely can't stand real insects but love teaching about them...CrAzY right?! Here are some activities that I cooked up so far this week to go along with our insects/life cycles unit.

Bugs Subtraction activity sheet with counters

This activity sheet is similar to the one I created for Easter. It has counters at the bottom that the kids can use to subtract or they can do it without the counters if they are ready. 

Bugs Counting activity sheet (up to 20)

This activity sheet is a simple one that has kids practice counting sets up to 20 and writing the correct number. Recalling a number is a skill that some of my younger kinders are still have trouble with.

Here are some activity sheets I created when I was teaching first grade. I hope some of my first grade friends will be able to use these! 

1 digit addition bugs activity sheet (sums up to 18)

Bugs ABC order activity sheet