Spider Poetry... Halloween Time!

Looking for a quick and fun activity to fit in a little Halloweeny in your classroom?

I looove 3rd grade, but I just don't have extra time for fun crafties like I did in 1st and 2nd... so I'm sneaking them in!

You might have seen my pic on my blog last week of these:

And then we made these:

And the best part is that I'm sharing that with you for free!  You can get the directions and several pieces of spider writing paper if you want it!

Here's the link for more info... just click the picture below!  (Would you believe I actually typed "lick the picture" first?  Glad I proofread!)

Happy Tuesday!

:)
Christina

October is Freebie Time!

I just love this time of year!  I love it so much that I've got a few freebies that can be easily added to your collection!

1. A Calendar Freebie - Ideas for popular and not so popular holidays!
2. A Fire Safety Freebie - Partners discuss "what if" situations
3. A Football Freebie - Children play a board game to practice some Common Core skills
4. A Halloween Freebie - Reading, Writing, and Math activities with one of the children's favorite holidays.

Come on over to Elementary Matters for some freebie fun!

Pumpkins, Pumpkins, and More Pumpkins

Since tomorrow is going to be a crazy day with the kids so excited for Halloween, I decided to give in a bit and have some fun. We are going to carve a pumpkin together and write about how-to carve a pumpkin.

Click on the picture to download.

We are going to do some of the fun pumpkin activities found at Christina Bainbridge's awesome blog.

Click on the picture to head over the Mrs. Bainbridge's Class.

I also created a fun writing for the kids to do sometime this week about what happens to pumpkins when Halloween is over. I love the book "Snowmen at Night" and I thought this could be written in the same way.

Head over to my blog to download.

Our school had our annual Bluegrass and BBQ on Friday night and each class painted a pumpkin. My class decided to paint Mercy Watson. She turned out pretty good.

Here's a picture of our pumpkin before the tiara and I added huge google eyes.I forgot to take a picture of the finished product. 

Can you believe it sold for $17? My kids' parents were outbidding each other. Hope you have a good Halloween at school. It's going to be a crazy Monday!

Trick or Treat

I'm so excited about sharing some Halloween freebies this week on "Me and My Gang."
Be sure to head over there to get some great Halloween freebies by other great bloggers.

Here's a game your kids can play to practice synonyms.

Click here to download the freebie.

Visit me at Swimming into Second for more freebie and ideas.