Easy Halloween Bingo

We've been having a lot of Halloween fun in our classroom lately.  Tomorrow we'll have a party with different Halloween centers. It seems so early to have a Halloween party but we have a field trip Thursday and PD all day Friday. 

As a one of our centers during our party, my kiddos will play Bingo with my parent helper. Today they made their bingo cards and played a few round with me. 

We went from this

 to this

in less than 15 minutes. Once about 5 kiddos were finished with their cards I took them to the rug to play bingo. That hurried along the rest of the group and we all enjoyed a break after some testing this afternoon. They'll love playing with candy corns tomorrow! If your looking for a last minute Halloween idea, you can grab this in my TPT store.

If you're looking for some other last minute Halloween activities, here are some fun & FREE ones you can snatch up. 

my friend Barb at GradeONEderful has a great sequencing freebie to go with The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat {click here}

and Disney Family has a cute Halloween coloring page and maze {here}

I'm off to fix dinner and get ready for tomorrow's Halloween party! Thanks for popping by!

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Frankenstein Directed Draw

I haven't been a very good blogger lately. Where does the time go??? I'm back tonight to share a quick post with you about a directed draw my class did today. It was so fun! If you're looking for a simple Halloween project in the next 2 days, this could be it.

Last night I drew this Frankenstein. He was so much fun to color! (As a little girl coloring was one of my favorite things to do! I still remember when my cousin taught me to trace the lines first, then color the inside of the shape. Thanks, Jan!)

I'm sorry I don't have directions to share. I drew the line for his head first, then did the bolts and face. Next we did the shirt, and the pants were last. Feel free to pin this cute guy! 

Here are some of the ones my students drew. I love how they turned out!

 Have a fun Halloween with your class! I'll be back soon with some technology related posts. Stay tuned!

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I've been BOO-ed!

I've been BOO-ed! That sounds bad, but it's actually a good thing. I was BOO-ed by my friend Barb over at GradeONEderful. It's part of a new linky party started by Tori over at Tori's Teacher Tips.

Here are the rules:

I love Halloween! October and December might just be my two favorite months at school. Here's some of what we do:

* Every year my class enjoys painting pumpkins. You can read more about how we do this {here}

* I used the comprehension brochure and Splat art project from this packet last year and loved it! The kids did too. It's from Christie at First Grade Fever!

* Some years we do a jack-o-lantern coordinate graph I got from mathwire.com.  Here is page with that activity and others {pumpkin math}.

* We write about pumpkins, Write From the Beginning style,

        using a chart like this that I post on the board. We brainstorm in a circle to get some of the  
        vocabulary.

I'm passing the "BOO" on to these other fabulous bloggers:
Michelle from Inspired by Kindergarten
Kate from Second Grade Sparkle
Lori at Little Priorities
April at Chalk Talk
Cindy at Granny Goes to School

Do you have an October/Halloween pinboard yet? Mine is going to grow a lot as I check out all these great ideas! Have fun!

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