Bats, Monsters, and Falloween Fun, Oh, My!!!

     Well, if you're still following this little old blog...thanks!!!  I'm so sorry!!  Between my husband getting home from an overseas trip, remolding our hardwood floors, parent-teacher conferences and getting sick...I've been a busy little teacher!!!  I don't have great pics from the last 2 weeks but you will have some fun bat and monster freebies next week!! Yeah!!!
     Last week we studied bats!! We read Stellaluna, Bat Jamboree, Bats Inside and Out, and Amazing Bat Facts.  We compared bats and birds, did a great Reading Rainbow Series over Bats, actually labeled the parts of bats, and the kids brought in posters at the end of the week!! They all did a great job.
     This week we did monsters!!  If you haven't read Even Monsters Need Haircuts -  do it is so cute!! Also, some other great monster reads: Go Away Monster, I Need My Monster, and Monster Math.  We did some color word fun with monsters, patterns, sorted our M's (which I got from Julie Lee), made a book, measured, and graphed.  I wish I had better pics!!
     Today we are doing Falloween at our school!!  Pre-K- 1st is doing a whole day of  fall and Halloween ( get it Falloween) fun!! We are rotating  classes and lots of parents are coming in to help!!  Should be great!!
Onto pics from the last 2 weeks!
     Just a Special Shout Of Thanks to all parents who helped work the Falloween Program today!! It was a great day of fun and learning!!!

 Our Venn Diagram comparing bats and birds.

Labeling our Bats!!!

I painted each had of my students and made bat hand prints!!  They turned out cute!!  The  kids loved it!!

Our Bat Projects!!  Each student had to do 1/2 sheet of construction paper and write Bats and cut and paste.  They had to tell about their projects for show and tell!!

This is the cutest book!  We did it today for our Falloween projects and for our Monster Unit this week.

Matching monsters to the correct sentence!!

ABC patterns.  I downloaded Julie Lee's Monster for my manipulative but I made this sheet myself. 

Dice Roll graph for sight words: am, see, like, you.

Number dot roll from Julie Lee.  We also did this later in the week with #'s 11-16!!

Sight word books we made!!

I made these for my Falloween Activities today!!  We painted them.. such fun!! Out of 160 kids only 1 spilled the water!!  I was impressed!!