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Low Prep Halloween Classroom Ideas
Week 11 of kindergarten means peeling kids off the ceiling all week. It’s Halloween week, and so we know it’s gonna be fun, wild, and
October 25, 2025
Halloween
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Holidays
Kindergarten Comprehension Lessons: October Read Alouds
October is an exciting time in kindergarten and every grade. It’s also one of those months that is challenging to keep kids engaged. You know
October 19, 2025
Literacy
Spider Activities For Kindergarten
October is the perfect time to learn about spiders, and this blog post contains all of our favorite spider activities for kindergarten. Spiders are a great
October 8, 2025
Holidays
Kindergarten Halloween Activities And October Ideas
Holidays in the classroom are fun, exhausting, and full of opportunities to learn about cultures, traditions, and customs. However, we also know that holidays in
September 26, 2025
Art
Kindergarten Science: Bats
A perfect kindergarten science unit for the fall is bats! Kids love learning about echolocation, nocturnal animals, and answering the question: do bats turn into
September 23, 2025
Holidays
Kindergarten Learning Activities: Halloween, Creepy Carrots, Creepy Underwear, Creepy Crayon
Welcome to week 12 of kindergarten, which includes Halloween and the day after Halloween lots of kindergarten learning activities to keep some normalcy! Our goal
October 26, 2024
Literacy
Kindergarten October Lesson Plans: Bats, Room On The Broom, Stellaluna, Phonics
Welcome to week 11 of kindergarten, which is a short week with kids and includes a field trip to the zoo and family conferences! It’s
October 19, 2024
Literacy
Kindergarten October Read Alouds
Here are some of our favorite kindergarten October read alouds and some ideas for using them in class! We use monthly read-alouds to teach reading
October 7, 2024
Literacy
Center Activities: October Math And Literacy Centers
So you have your center management system in place. It’s October, and you’re ready to change centers, but what center activities do you put in
September 21, 2024
Holidays
Schedulin’ Sunday: Room On The Broom, Subtraction, CVC WORDS And More!
Week 12 of kindergarten is Halloweek week. Costumes. Sugar highs. Sugar crashes. It’s going to be fun and exhausting. And of course, we’re gonna learn
October 28, 2023