Halloween Kindergarten Extension Pack

Just in case you were looking for some kindergarten activities for Thursday.  I threw a few together.  Grab it below.

Halloween K Extension Pack DOWNLOAD ALL

Here’s what you’ll find inside: Halloween Math, Tracing Strips, Skip Counting Puzzles, Jack-o-lantern 100 Chart Art, and Halloween Roll & Graph. 

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Looking for more ideas?

• Preschool and Tot Activities
• Devotional & Memory Verse Helps
• Learning Center Ideas
• Sensory Bin
• Recommended Books
• In the Kitchen- Glow in the Dark Jell-O
• Family Night - Jack-o-lanterns

There are also more ideas, units, printables and crafts available on our Pinterest Board!


 

Monsters Kindergarten Extension Pack

How many of you have seen Disney's Monsters University?  My family went and really enjoyed it.  If you haven’t gone and would like to see my full review and grab a Free MU Family Kit then head over to this post.

The short review is that my son loved the movie so much I had to create an extension pack to our monster theme.  You can grab it on my personal blog, A Mommy Talks.

K Monster Extension Pack

Here’s a closer look inside this Kindergarten Extension Pack:

 

Addition/Subtraction within 10	100 Chart Art
Skip Counting Order Puzzles	Tracing Strips
Graph, Predict and Analyze

Products We Use with Our Units
The following are affiliate links. Read our full disclosure policy here.

Looking for more ideas?

• Preschool and Tot Activities

There are also more ideas, units, printables and crafts available on our Pinterest Board!


 

A Lesson Plan

When we began putting units together last year we included lesson plans.  It was our hope that mommies who were just starting their homeschool adventures could use them and not be overwhelmed with details.  This year, when we moved to expanding our units, we opted not to include a lesson plan but to give mommies a variety of activities focusing on key learning concepts.

Many of you have e-mailed saying you miss those plans!  It is for you that I offer this. Just click on the image to print it. 



Now this is a BLANK LESSON FORM that you can print off and use to plan your week!   It also happens to be what I use. (Note: You may also download a 5 Day Lesson Plan HERE!!)

A couple of things you should note:

• There are only 3 days.  That’s because in our house, we only do three days! 
• Extras don’t have to be done, or they can be done on a different day then your lessons. 
• Each activity we make is meant to work on a key concept.  We offer activities in each unit to work on them all, and you should aim for using something to cover them all in a teaching week.
• The 3 days don’t have to be done consecutively.     

To give you an idea of what to do with a unit I am sharing my Halloween Lesson Plan using our printables and our extra posts.  It should give you an idea on how you can fill the plan out each week!  Just click on the image to print it.


I hope these prove to be helpful for some of you! 

Halloween {Expanded}

Check out our new and expanded “Halloween” unit!  We’ve added a few new printables, which you can download. 

Just click the image above to download a single zip file of all the printables. (Can’t unzip it. Try Hamster Free Zip Archiver approved by Amber’s husband. Remember to download carefully.)

You will need to be able to view pop-ups to download the unit, as it will appear in a pop up window from our site!

Here are the printables included in this unit:

• Bat Roll & Color (You’ll need our counting cards.)
• Roll & Graph
• Patterns (ABAB and AABB)
• Count & Clip
• Phonic Clip Cards
• Shape Match
• J is for Jack-o-lantern
• Letter Sort
• Number Order Puzzle (1-10 and 11-20) 
• Letter Match
• Which is Different?
• Writing Maze 
• Beginning Writing/Cutting Practice
• Size Sort 
• Memory Cards

Tot Pack

Looking for some ideas for a younger tot?  Check out our Halloween Tot Pack. (Tot Packs inspired by 1+1+1=1.) Here are the printables included in this pack:

• Halloween Match
• Heads & Tails
• Count the Candy Corn 
• Jack-o-lantern Colors (mini book)
• Size Sequencing
• Halloween Picture Puzzle

 

Products We Use with Our Units

Looking for more ideas?

• Devotional & Memory Verse Helps
• Learning Center Ideas
• Sensory Bin 
• Recommended Books
• In the Kitchen- Glow in the Dark Jell-O
• Family Night - Jack-o-lanterns 
• Last Year's Post

There are also more  ideas, units, printables and crafts available on this theme.  Check out our Pinterest Board for some of our favorites!

We hope you enjoy these printables and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided. 

We’re linking up to: Preschool Corner.

Please do not sell or host these files anywhere else. You MAY link people here. When leading others to these printables, please link to THIS page, not to the file page.  Thanks! (See TOU)

Boo! It’s a Sensory Bin!!!

Ok, so who doesn’t love some sensory bin ideas???  We are not BIG Halloween people, but we do like to have some fun with this goofy holiday.  I set out to create a Halloween Sensory Bin that was fun and not frightening.  Mission accomplished according to E.  :) 

I got all of my materials from the Dollar Tree or Targets Dollar Spot (LOVE that by the way) with the exception of the foam stickers.  I got those at Michaels with this COUPON for 40% off.  Here is what I put in:

• A pack of shredded paper confetti in black, orange, and white
• Some of those fuzzy pom-pom monsters
• A few “Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” foam stickers
• Pumpkin Erasers
• Bat Erasers
• Some plastic spiders

Now, I will be honest, sometimes I have been a skeptic of the sensory bin, unsure of what the big deal was.  But then, E played with this sensory bucket! 

What did we do?  We looked for Snoopy.  We counted pumpkins and bats.  We found pom pom monsters of varied colors, and we counted them because apparently E is like Rain Man and wants to COUNT EVERYTHING.  :)  We played and played, and then, when I put the bucket up, we had the promise of another go around tomorrow! 

Want a couple of more ideas?  Check out these! 

Halloween Sensory Bin From Airplanes in August

Halloween Sensory Bin from Nurturing Naters

You can also check out an entire list of AWESOME sensory bins for the season over at Preschool Lesson Plans if you need some more inspiration!

Memory Verse Helps-Ephesians 2:8

Here are some extras to help your kiddos memorize this weeks verse, Ephesians 2:8. 
You can download all of the printables, including the devotional, HERE.

Here is what is included in the download:

Memory Verse Card: Use this card daily during your calendar time to work on memorization. 

Memory Verse Puzzle and Cutting Practice:  This puzzle fits together to form this weeks memory verse. 

Memory Verse Color Order and Cutting Practice: Using color order arrange the verse.

Memory Verse Writing Practice: With this you can practice parts of the whole verse, or just work on starting a single letter.       
  
You may also re-visit this verses devotional from last year.  We hope you enjoy them!

Halloween Centers

This week we are expanding our Halloween Theme printables. 

To get you started, I’ve found some fabulous resources that can be use in independent centers.  Remember to go over how to do the activity with your kiddo before allowing them to do it independently.

Stamping

Work on letter recognition with our new Stamping Strips.  To do this activity you will need uppercase or lowercase stamps and an ink pad.

Stamping Strips: Halloween

Fine Motor

I know I’ve been including a lot of fine motor ideas, but I just couldn’t resist sharing a few more!  I love these Jack-o-lantern fine motor activities from My Montessori Journey! 

Pumpkin Hammering

Drawing on a Pumpkin

Art

If you’re ever looking for crafts to do with your kiddos, you’ve got to check out Ramblings of a Crazy Woman! Here are some cute simple ones.

Halloween Wreath

Handprint Bats

Hopefully these ideas will keep your kiddos entertained for awhile.

Monsters

What?  You were expecting a forest unit?  Well, isn’t that just like a monster, sneaking up out of the blue when you weren’t ready!  Don’t worry the forest unit is still coming, we’re a little bit behind. 

Since we didn’t want to leave you empty handed this weekend, we figured we would share our BRAND NEW MONSTER UNIT! Every month we will be bringing you a brand spanking new unit and this month we couldn’t resist the monsters! (And don’t miss our Monsters K Extension Pack!)

Just click the image above to download a single zip file of all the printables from Google Drive. (Can’t unzip it. Try Hamster Free Zip Archiver approved by Amber’s husband. Remember to download carefully.)

You will need to be able to view pop-ups to download the unit, as it will appear in a pop up window from our site!

Here are the printables included in this unit:

• Counting Mat (You’ll need our counting cards.)
• Magnet Page
• Mash That Monster!
• Roll & Graph
• Monster Parts
• Patterns (ABAB and AABB)
• Spelling Page
• Count & Clip 
• Which is Different? 
• Writing Maze
• Beginning Writing/Cutting Practice
• Size Sort
• Number Order Puzzle (1-10 and 11-20)  

Book Suggestions

Tot Pack

Looking for some ideas for a younger tot?  Check out 1+1+1=1 Happy Monster Tot Pack. 

Products We Use with Our Units

Check out our Pinterest Board for more ideas, units, printables and crafts available on this theme! (And don’t miss our Monsters K Extension Pack!)

We hope you enjoy these printables and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided. 

Special thanks to Just So Scrappy for graphics.

Please do not sell or host these files anywhere else. You MAY link people here. When leading others to these printables, please link to THIS page, not to the file page.  Thanks! (See TOU)

Tots in Action-Halloween

Here are some pictures from our week! Below is the grab and gather list for this unit so you can prepare at home!  Hope you have a great week! 

Halloween

This unit has been expanded. So, make sure and get all the printables here.

 

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Here is what we’ve been doing this week. Let us know what you think.  We hope by providing these materials to you free of charge, it will make your life easier! 

Lesson Plan: The lesson plan includes all the lessons for the week, as well as optional ideas. Items following the lesson plan are just the printables or links to websites we used to teach these plans.  (Please note: On top of our lesson plan we are reading books daily that relate to our theme.)

Memory Verse: This memory card is for daily use during our calendar time.  You can learn more about calendar time at 1+1+1=1 or Homeschool Creations.  Our weekly devotional is an object lesson that will help your child apply the meaning of the verse to them.

Day 1: 
Jack-o-lantern Letter Match- Have your child match the capital letter to the lowercase letter to reinforce letter recognition.

Halloween Memory-  This activity is just for fun.

Day 2:
Bat Rhyming Words (_at family)- Download this activity from Making Learning Fun.  If you child isn’t ready for this type of activity then pick another one that would work best for them.

Bat Roll & Color/Cover- This activity will help your child begin to read and count whole numbers. You can use counting cards or a dice.

 

Glow in the Dark Jell-O Bats- Read our post to get directions for making your very own.

 

Day 3:
Trick o' Treat Writing- For those tots that may struggle with following the lines, we have added a simpler writing activity.  The 2nd activity has no lines, so all your child has to do is connect the child to the house, any way they can.  You can use this document over and over again if you laminate it and then have you child write with dry erase markers.(Black dry erase wipes off easier than color ones.)

 

 

Trick o' Treat Counting- This activity will help your child begin to read, count and model whole numbers 1-10.

 

 

We hope you enjoy these lesson plans and please let us know if you have any issues with downloading or using the items provided.  

 

 

Special Thanks to Just So Scrappy for some of the graphics.

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