Kindergarten Creations

Halloween Hats for Halloween Parties

Are you a teacher or parent looking for a quick Halloween activity 🎃 for your Halloween party? Check out these Halloween hats! These hats are simple to print, prep, and create! This set of hats include a pumpkin🎃, bat🦇, spider🕷️, and ghost👻. Your students can choose which hat they want to create so that your class has a variety of hats.

I would recommend that you print the hats on tagboard or construction paper so that they stand up and are durable for little learners.

If you choose to use the hats that do not say "Happy Halloween," your students can write their name on the front as shown.

Grab these hats here! They are a digital download, which makes it simple for you. Simply download and print!

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Pumpkin Math Craft for Halloween

By Crystal McGinnis 7:56 AM

Are you looking for a fall or Halloween craft that is educational and engaging? Check out my pumpkin and jack-o'-lantern crafts! 🎃 These crafts practice number recognition, number ordering, and shapes. These are all kindergarten skills.

This craft is very simple to complete. Students cut out and order numbered strips. (perfect for working on fine motor skills) They glue the numbered strips on construction paper to create the craft. These make an adorable Halloween display for your classroom!

If you choose not to create a jack-o'-lantern, you may like this plain pumpkin version. Students do the same exact thing to create a pumpkin. They cut out the strips and order them by number.

If you would like to use these crafts in your classroom or at home with your kids, grab them here in my TPT shop. You can download them digitally and use them instantly!

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Halloween Sight Word Poems for Shared Reading

By Crystal McGinnis 8:51 AM

Hello Friends!

🎃Fall is just a few days away, and that means that Halloween will be here before we know it! Do you celebrate Halloween in your classroom? If you do, you may like these Halloween themed SIGHT WORD POEMS!

🎃These sight word poems are predictable, full of sight words, and perfect for new readers! I will print these poems, bind the poems together, and create a poetry notebook for my students. I will write the poems on chart paper, and then my students will help me find and highlight the sight words that we are working on.

These poems include a variety of sight words, but each poem focuses on one or two sight words for new readers. These poetry notebooks are perfect for small guided reading groups, whole group shared reading, or even reading homework for your students.

Grab these sight word poems here for your classroom! They are available as a digital download which means you can purchase them and download them instantly to print.

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26 Alphabet Pocket Charts for Kindergarten or Preschool

By Crystal McGinnis 6:01 AM

Introducing the alphabet is one of the most important skills at the beginning kindergarten. Developing this foundation early is key to successful reading later in the year. One of the resources that I use to teach my kindergarten students alphabet recognition and letter sounds are these alphabet pocket charts. They are perfect to use during our letter of the week.

At the beginning of each week, I introduce the pocket chart by looking at each picture, stretching the picture sounds emphasizing the beginning letter sound, and then letting my students help me put the cards in the pocket chart. We leave this pocket chart up throughout the entire week and talk about it each day. Sometimes we practice onset and rhime with the picture cards, we add photographs of students that begin with that certain letter to the pocket chart, and we count syllables for each picture.

You could use two of these pocket charts together and let your students sort the pictures by beginning letter sound! This is one of those versatile resources that can be used in so many different ways.

Grab this set of 26 Pocket Charts here in my TPT shop! This resource is available as a digital download. That means you can print it and use it today. I recommend printing this resource on card-stock for durability.

This set of pocket charts goes well with my Alphabet Find and Color Printables! You could use these printables after using each specific pocket chart to introduce your students to the alphabet.

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Shape Introduction Bundle for Kindergarten

By Crystal McGinnis 5:18 AM

I have been working on a new teaching resource that is perfect for the beginning of kindergarten! It is a shape introduction bundle that has activities that are perfect for introducing shapes. Each set in the bundle has a teacher book, emergent reader, shape pocket chart, shape formation activities, shape anchor chart, and more. You can grab these activities in my TPT shop, and download them to use immediately in your classroom!

So far the bundle has circles, squares, and rectangles. It is a growing bundle and will eventually have 7 shapes. Check it out here!

I hope to add the rest of the sets to the bundle before the new school year begins! 💛

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CVC Word Family Flowers Craft for Spring

By Crystal McGinnis 6:47 AM

If you are looking for an educational Spring Craft, check out this CVC Word Family flower template. Students build up to 20 different flowers using different word family words. This craft is perfect for a spring literacy center!

The flowers are simple to create! Choose which word family you would like your students to practice and print the flower pieces on any color of paper that you choose. Have your students cut out the pieces and lay them out as shown.

First, students will glue the flowerpot to the bottom of a piece of construction paper or tagboard. They then add the stem!

After gluing the flowerpot and stem, students glue the petals to the center of the flower.

Finally, students glue the flower to the top of the stem. The flowers are then complete!

I would have each of my students create a different word family flower and then I would display them. The students could practice reading each flower and the word family words that they see!

Grab this Word Family Flower Template here in my TPT shop. I hope your kids love it!

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