Fall and Halloween - Updated and FREE

Three years of fall and Halloween posts have been updated (October 2019). 
Visit these posts for FREE downloads and links to FREE activities.

What do you want to be? 

Tuesday's Treasure Box: Halloween Apps and Apptivities

  

Halloween is Just Two Weeks Away and the Pumpkin is Stuck on the Vine: Speech and Language Activities for Big Pumpkin by EricaSilverman

Describing Pumpkins

 

Speech and Language with the Big Green Monster

  

Pumpkins and Jack-o-Lanterns, A Free Download

Describing Gourds

  Pumpkin Spatial Concepts

Who Scared the Crows? - Customize Your Story

My Fall Book - A Free Download

Pumpkin Fun!

Story Props for The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

Laminate Your Leaves!

Fabulous Fall Links

Diana

© 2015

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Describing Pumpkins

My most popular pin on Pinterest this month has been Pumpkin Observations, describing a pumpkin using your five senses, found at 2 Teaching Mommies. It didn't surprise me to find even more ways to describe pumpkins when I searched the web. (NOTE - This link no longer works, but all links below lead to wonderful describing activities.)

Find Pumpkin Anchor Charts and other ways to describe a pumpkin at My First Grade Backpack.

Create a Wordle with your describing words at Wordle.net. 

The First Grade Parade has several great describing ideas. I love that her students describe the pumpkins using similes.  

Make the pumpkin patch describing activity found at Carrie's Speech Corner.

Describe as you Carve-a-Pumpkin from Parents Magazine with this cool app!

Conduct a Pumpkin Investigation at A to Z Teacher Stuff.

Many pumpkin activities, including adjectives to describe the inside and outside of a pumpkin, can be found at Simply Second Grade. 

Making Grammar Fun! -- Adjective Pumpkins! at A Day in First Grade. 

At TpT, there are over 200 describing activities involving pumpkins. Below are three of the more than 25 FREE activities. 
     Pumpkin Description 
     Describing Pumpkins 
     My Pumpkin Adjectives

Diana

© 2013

Fall Favorites

I posted most of my favorite fall activities last year. If you haven't seen them, here's a handy list. 

Black Cat, White Moon

Pumpkins and Jack-o-Lanterns, A Free Download

Describing Gourds

What do you want to be?

Pumpkin Spatial Concepts

Laminate Your Leaves!

Fabulous Fall Links

Story Props for The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything

The Chocolate Chip Ghost 

Pumpkin Fun!

Diana

© 2013

Describing Gourds

Describing gourds was always a fun fall activity with my younger students. In addition to color words, textures such as smooth, bumpy or rough can be introduced. Talk about those with stripes and those gourds that don't have stripes. It was very exciting when my students showed that they could use multiple characteristics to describe the gourds. 

I usually used a voice output device such as a TechTalk or a CheapTalk for visual support and auditory cues with this activity. I made the overlay below and it is posted on BoardmakerOnline.com.  If you don't have a voice output device, cut the buttons to make a choice board and your less verbal students can pull-off the characteristics that they want to use to describe the gourds. 

Describing Gourds at BoardmakerOnline.com

Diana

© 2012

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My Fall Book - A Free Download

This was the first of many PowerPoint books that I made for my students several years ago. I sent this home on a CD. Most computers have PowerPoint Viewer so you don't need MSOffice to run it. For those without a computer, I sent the book home in printed form.  

Click to download My Fall Book

Don't forget that those with iPads can convert a PowerPoint to a pdf and view it in book form in iBooks. 

Diana

© 2012

Fabulous Fall Links

Enjoy fabulous fall links to activities that require little or no cost and preparation, but can be used for a variety of speech and language objectives.

Pick a Pumpkin and read Pumpkin, Pumpkin at Starfall.com

Make the Autumn Things Box at Kizclub.com

Play Halloween and Fall games at Sesame Street.org.

Orange Pumpkin, Orange Pumpkin, a book, along printables for students to make and sequence their own books, can be found at First Grade a la carte. 

A pumpkin sequencing activity with a link to the really nice photographs from The First Grade Parade. 

Diana

© 2012