Halloween Short A Sounds Worksheet (Free!)

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Squarehead Teachers

Halloween has so many fun short A sounds, that I just couldn’t help making this worksheet. This would be great for kindergarten or first grade, where kids are spending a lot of time working on phonics. Click here to download the free printable PDF: Halloween Short A Sounds

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Guest Post: Sensory Play with Glitter Play Dough

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Squarehead Teachers

Around Christmas time last year, we decided we were going to make glitter dough! I was just as excited as the kids to make it! All you need (of course) is play dough and glitter! (just shake that glitter into your play dough batch as sparingly or liberally as you’d like 😉

Click here for an AWESOME Home-made Play Dough Recipe!

These kinds of projects are my favorite, where you can switch it up depending on the season or mood! 🙂 We chose red glitter and decided to make our dough the color green because we were feeling festive!

Here are some fun items that I put out with our play dough to blend imagination with sensory play:

Look around your house for items that could be used with play dough that would otherwise be looked over or thrown out. It might surprise you what you can find when looking at items with this in mind. For instance, at the bottom of my picture there is a heart shaped lid to a small box of candy that was given to me one Valentine’s day that is perfect for cutting heart shapes with play dough!

Do you also see a small blue rubber robot? I gave my hubs a bunch of these funny guys as a gag gift of sorts when we were dating!;) Who knew our children would be requesting them each time we broke out the play dough?! 🙂

You might also be surprised to see a child who normally doesn’t like to play with play dough much, be totally engrossed with it once you add a few fun toys and tools!

Side note: We have also made Halloween glitter dough (we did orange play dough with purple glitter but of course the options are endless..:)Perfect for this “stay indoors more” time of year!!

About the Author: Kimberly loves sunsets, hates worms (believe you me, I have a story or two to share), adores (adore is stronger than LOVE you know!) her 3 children (including 1 sweet angel baby). She dreams of being a children’s book illustrator some day, delights in killer deals, keeping everyone happy, and bedtime at the end of a loooong day. Click here to check out Kimberly’s blog, Easy At-Home Preschool.

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Halloween Word Problems (Addition/Subtraction)

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Squarehead Teachers

Here’s another fun (and free!) printable addition/subtraction word problems worksheet (no numbers greater than 20). The math word problems are all Halloween themed, so grab a pencil and get started! Here’s the PDF: Halloween- simple add sub word prob- 2

Here are the answers: 1.) 20 pieces 2.) 5 bats 3.) 9 flowers 4.) 10 cupcakes 5.) 11 pumpkins

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Grammatical Poetry – Halloween

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Squarehead Teachers

Here’s a fun Halloween language arts activity for kids. It’s super easy and it’s a great grammar review! Click here for the free printable PDF: Grammatical Poetry- Halloween

Halloween Jokes & Riddles for Kids

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Squarehead Teachers

Kids love holiday jokes(no matter what holiday), and there are TONS out there for Halloween. Here’s one great collection of Halloween joked and riddles for kids: Squigley’s Halloween Jokes and Riddles (joke above from this page). But in case you didn’t get enough Halloween laughs, yet, here are some more lists to tickle your funny bone:

Corny Halloween Riddles for Kids

Scary Jokes & Riddles

Top 25 Halloween Jokes & Riddles for Kids

If you know of any awesome Halloween kids jokes, comment below! The more laughter, the better! Click here for more Halloween fun…

Free Halloween Addition & Subtraction Worksheet

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Squarehead Teachers

Here’s a fun free printable worksheet to practice addition and subtraction (no numbers greater than 20). The math word problems are all Halloween themed, so grab a pencil and get started! Here’s the PDF: Halloween- simple add sub word problems- 1

Here are the answers: 1.) 12 pieces 2.) 12 houses 3.) 13 pieces 4.) 15 pieces 5.) 2 bars

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Halloween Parts of Speech Activities!

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Squarehead Teachers

I’ve always enjoyed teaching parts of speech. And who doesn’t love Halloween!?! So I thought these two things together could only turn out fun. So here are 2 free printable worksheets to help kids practice identifying nouns, verbs and adjectives. Click the following links to see/print the PDFs: page 1 page 2 The following page was submitted by a fellow teacher. She wanted to have her kids use this as a starting point for more writing: Parts of Speech pages- back side

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Practice Writing Dialogue with Funny Animal Pictures

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Squarehead Teachers

Kids sometimes struggle with knowing how to punctuate dialogue in their writings. So here’s a way fun activity for you to practice this as a whole class. Print out a copy of these pictures of animals in Halloween costumes and put them under your document camera. If you’ve got a way to connect your computer to your projector, then you don’t have to print the pages. But either way, show the class the picture and decide on a sentence to write as a class. Point out where quotation marks go and how the fit with whatever punctuation mark is at the end. If you want some independent practice, have your kids write their sentences on personal whiteboards so they can hold it up to show you. Happy (grammatically correct) Halloween!