Teacher by the Beach: owls

Next week is one of my new favorite weeks of October! I added in Owls a few years ago - and my kids LOVE it!

Let's take a look at some things I do during the week.

I use a lot of Readworks and Reading A-Z. Readworks is free for educators and I use their articles all the time! For this article - They found the main idea and the details that support that main idea.

Then they wrote out a main idea/detail writing...or you could have them do some research on PebbleGo and do a nonfiction writing.

We do a drawing from Art for Kids Hub on YouTube, then I let them do watercolor painting. I LOVE how they turn out!

We end the week with dissecting OWL PELLETS!! I get the from OBDK - and I found some bone charts so they can sort them. They have SO much fun with these!

Some other things we do during the week - we do another class book...

And during centers, I add in a Label and Write About it page. These are great of differentiating!

And of course they do some of the October Centers. I also have 1st Grade HERE.

Have a great weekend!

Holy. Cannoli. WHAT. A. YEAR so far. I can't even believe it's almost October soon!!

October is just a whirl wind!! It's super crazy, in the teacher world and the mom world. I'm not sure which direction I'm going anymore - does anyone else feel that way??

Here are some things I have done for past Octobers.... they range from Community helpers, to bats and spiders and owls to pumpkins - I wish October was longer!

I usually start the month with....

Firefighters,

I love when my husband used to come and give presentations.

THEN, we can't forget Bats,

and I LOVE Spiders,

and Owls!

(You can see some older posts on each of those by click on those links...)

I love using Reading A-Z or ReadWorks.org for nonfiction passages. And also PebbleGo! The art is from Art for Kids Hub on Youtube - one of my go-tos for directed drawings!

And of course - owl week wouldn't be complete with dissecting owl pellets!! So. Much. Fun!!

I also love to read the book, Monster Trouble, and did a prediction activity to go with it. I'm really trying to get them to USE THE TEXT to help them answer questions... WHY oh why is it so hard to do?

You can click HERE to grab the Monster Trouble Prediction paper.

We also take some time to review 2-digit numbers, since we're adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers now... it's always good to review!

You can click HERE to download the template.

And of course, we can't forget Pumpkin week! So many Pumpkin activities!! You can see previous years' activities in THIS post.

We'll be working a LOT in our Pumpkin Book...