October

We’re knee deep into our data unit! I’ve been busy, busy, busy teaching them how to create scaled bar graphs. I tapped into their “we’re giddy for Halloween” energy and created these Halloween graphing resources. These Halloween graphing activities provide hands on practice for classifying, sorting, organizing data, graphing using

If you are a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade teacher looking for a spiders unit or spider activities for elementary students, then you found the right place! This integrated science and literacy thematic unit provides teachers and students with a complete collection of printables for a two-week study of spiders.

You know that phrase, “taking one for the team?” Well, that about summarizes my week in the classroom. Because good gosh do I find bats to be hideous creatures. It physically pains me to look at them. You can only imagine how I feel about reading about their creepy finger/thumb-like things

There are so many Halloween picture books for kids that are great mentor texts for young writers. Engaging students through picture books strengthens their writing by providing models of how to write narratives that include descriptive details and interesting word choices. While one of these books is most definitely a Halloween