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A FUN Halloween Singable Book Project!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Hey everyone!! I just wanted to quickly share about our Halloween Song Singable Book project since, you know, Halloween is just around the corner!! :)  This book making project helps children learn to follow directions, develop their fine motor skills, and learn reading skills such as tracking, fluency, and concepts of print. Plus, each child winds up with a book to add to their classroom library that they can each read and “own.” SO cu...
   

A Pool Noodle Pumpkin Patch Art Project!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Today I am going to tell you how to make a pool noodle pumpkin patch art project with your little ones!  It is very easy to make and lots of fun for either a fall or Halloween craft, and it can be used along with a mini non-fiction science unit on the life cycle of the pumpkin plant and an accompanying writing assignment! I tried this out in my friend Mary C.'s first grade classroom, but I am certain that it would be easy enough f...
   

How to Teach Decomposing Numbers 0-10 (and a Freebie!)

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Today I am going to show you how to decomposing numbers in a step by step lesson that really worked for me! PLUS there's a great little Jack-o-lantern teeth freebie to help you teach it, too!  For this lesson, the children and I practiced decomposing the number four by putting teeth on Jack-o-lanterns!  We just put some on the top of the mouth, and some on the bottom and then counted them. It was grea...
   

Creepy Carrots: A Free Halloween Craftivity!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Here is another fun, FREE craft for kids based on the book Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds, with SUPER FUN pictures by Peter Brown!  Did you enjoy the free Creepy Pair of Underwear craftivity from a few weeks ago?  Well  Creepy Carrots is the sort of like the companion book to A Creepy Pair of Underwear - and it is just as much fun as the other one! When I first got this book out and showed it to one of my students...