The Barefoot Teacher: Halloween

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With Halloween right around the corner, now is a perfect time for your Preschool, Kindergarten, or First grade kids to be learning about nocturnal animals! If you're looking for fall activities for kids, these Bats, Owls, & Spiders differentiated readers are a perfect additional to the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your class this fall. Help your students develop confidence in their reading abilities while learning about bats at the same time. In addition, the last page of each reader incorporates writing practice as students recall facts that they learned in the reader.

With fall upon us and Halloween right around the corner, I'd like to show you some differentiated 'I Am a Bat' emergent readers. And then I have a FREE DOWNLOAD you can try out if you haven't already! 
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While you really can use these readers at any time of year, I tend to do them around our Halloween and Nocturnal Animals units. I have many animal readers in this series, but I'm only going to highlight the bat readers today! 
With Halloween right around the corner, now is a perfect time for your Preschool, Kindergarten, or First grade kids to be learning about nocturnal animals! If you're looking for fall activities for kids, these Bats, Owls, & Spiders differentiated readers are a perfect additional to the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your class this fall. Help your students develop confidence in their reading abilities while learning about bats at the same time. In addition, the last page of each reader incorporates writing practice as students recall facts that they learned in the reader.

So this is what the cover looks like. It's the same for all three levels of the reader. 
With Halloween right around the corner, now is a perfect time for your Preschool, Kindergarten, or First grade kids to be learning about nocturnal animals! If you're looking for fall activities for kids, these Bats, Owls, & Spiders differentiated readers are a perfect additional to the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your class this fall. Help your students develop confidence in their reading abilities while learning about bats at the same time. In addition, the last page of each reader incorporates writing practice as students recall facts that they learned in the reader.

Here's what it looks like full size. Each page of the book comes two-to-a-page so that you can easily print the books using the collate and staple options on your copy machine. Then use a paper cutter to quickly slice between the books and just like magic, they're already assembled for you!
With Halloween right around the corner, now is a perfect time for your Preschool, Kindergarten, or First grade kids to be learning about nocturnal animals! If you're looking for fall activities for kids, these Bats, Owls, & Spiders differentiated readers are a perfect additional to the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your class this fall. Help your students develop confidence in their reading abilities while learning about bats at the same time. In addition, the last page of each reader incorporates writing practice as students recall facts that they learned in the reader.

Meet your students right where they're at with three differentiated levels to choose from. Your kiddos can highlight any sight words, chunks, or blends that you are currently working on.

Learn some unique facts about bats that many people don't know!


Learn what they eat and how they sleep.

The last page is one of my favorites. It's included in all of the readers of this series. Students write down a list of the favorite things they learned while reading the book! It's a great way to incorporate writing practice. This picture is from a set of rabbit readers, and I just happened to have it handy to show you. This is how the bat books end as well.

Let me show you two ways you can get this bats reader set.

You can get this differentiated reader by itself here:

 Or you can get it in a bundle with other readers:
With Halloween right around the corner, now is a perfect time for your Preschool, Kindergarten, or First grade kids to be learning about nocturnal animals! If you're looking for fall activities for kids, these Bats, Owls, & Spiders differentiated readers are a perfect additional to the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your class this fall. Help your students develop confidence in their reading abilities while learning about bats at the same time. In addition, the last page of each reader incorporates writing practice as students recall facts that they learned in the reader.

Six readers, all about nocturnal animals, are included in this bundle.

Remember reading that book when you were a kid, about the old lady who swallowed a fly? Well, guess what? She swallows a lot more things now, including bats! My students LOVE when I pull this book out. I made some activities and centers to go along with this book.





 Now, let me show you a FREE DOWNLOAD you can get right now that will give you an opportunity to try those differentiated readers out!

This is the I Am an Alligator set. 
It's set up exactly like the bat readers, only your students will be learning about alligators instead! Oh my! 
Try this series FREE right here:

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-Til next time
       
With Halloween right around the corner, now is a perfect time for your Preschool, Kindergarten, or First grade kids to be learning about nocturnal animals! If you're looking for fall activities for kids, these Bats, Owls, & Spiders differentiated readers are a perfect additional to the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your class this fall. Help your students develop confidence in their reading abilities while learning about bats at the same time. In addition, the last page of each reader incorporates writing practice as students recall facts that they learned in the reader.

These FREE non-fiction, differentiated readers will go right along with the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your class this spring. Help your Kindergarten or First Grade students develop confidence in their reading abilities while learning about alligators at the same time. In addition, the last page of each reader incorporates writing practice as students recall facts that they learned in the reader.

Get ready for Halloween and nocturnal animals with bat themed activities for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade kids! A free printable is included! You'll find book suggestions, math and literacy resources. Crafts, and videos, and more! #halloween #halloweencrafts #halloweenactivities #nocturnalanimals #bats #kindergarten #firstgrade #preschool #holiday #literacy
Every time I think of bats,
I think of an old Sesame Street clip
that had the Count singing
about bats.
Know which one I'm talking about?
Ha! And now YOU are going to be singing it for the rest of the day!

Here are some Bat related activities for you littles this week. Use them in the classroom, or send them home for them to enjoy on Saturday (Halloween) morning.
This set of emergent readers... 
...includes 3 different levels so that you can differentiate with your littles.
Get ready for Halloween and nocturnal animals with bat themed activities for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade kids! A free printable is included! You'll find book suggestions, math and literacy resources. Crafts, and videos, and more! #halloween #halloweencrafts #halloweenactivities #nocturnalanimals #bats #kindergarten #firstgrade #preschool #holiday #literacy
Check out some of the pages included in this resource:


If you're wanting some quick, simple crafts to do, here are two that don't require too many extra supplies. They are quick and easy for a last minute center or party idea.
My kids had a blast putting these together and hanging them around the room.
Get ready for Halloween and nocturnal animals with bat themed activities for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade kids! A free printable is included! You'll find book suggestions, math and literacy resources. Crafts, and videos, and more! #halloween #halloweencrafts #halloweenactivities #nocturnalanimals #bats #kindergarten #firstgrade #preschool #holiday #literacy
If you're looking for a quick break to clean up from a craft or center time, put on this quick informational video about bats. I know it says Discovery Girls...but if you don't mention it, I guarantee your boys will be so interested that they won't even notice...or mind! 

The next activity is a FREEBIE and includes five sample sheets of a larger resource. The reason I'm adding it in with bat resources is that some of the pages have bat graphics on them. 
Get ready for Halloween and nocturnal animals with bat themed activities for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade kids! A free printable is included! You'll find book suggestions, math and literacy resources. Crafts, and videos, and more! #halloween #halloweencrafts #halloweenactivities #nocturnalanimals #bats #kindergarten #firstgrade #preschool #holiday #literacy
So you can be reviewing various math and reading concepts, while still sticking to your bats theme!

These are some of my favorite fictional books about bats. Get ready for Halloween and nocturnal animals with bat themed activities for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade kids! A free printable is included! You'll find book suggestions, math and literacy resources. Crafts, and videos, and more! #halloween #halloweencrafts #halloweenactivities #nocturnalanimals #bats #kindergarten #firstgrade #preschool #holiday #literacy
There are some great resources that go with the Swallowing Bat Lady story. I posted about them a few Halloweens agos. You can read about it here. There are some additional bat crafts, snacks, and activities on that post as well!


Til next time,


Everyone knows and loves the 
story of the old lady who swallowed a fly...


...did we ever figure out WHY she swallowed that fly?

Well by now, you probably have seen the 
different variations of this story by Lucille Colandro:




 There's even a STICKER BOOK!
(Which is totally on my list of things to buy!)


Well...the old lady is at it again...
This time, eating BATS


How many things can this chick eat?! 

This story is a great one to add to 
your Nocturnal Animals unit, 
and it ties in nicely with end of the 
month October classroom activities.

Start off the week by introducing them to some 
vocabulary words that go along with the story. 

Here are two different types of pocket chart
vocabulary cards that 
you can use to introduce the words 
and later on, to practice sequencing with.


Use these vocabulary posters reinforce the words 
that go with the story. 


There is a corresponding writing activity that you can use with it later on once they are more familiar with the words.


 All you need to do, is hang the posters up around the room in various "hidden" locations, give the students a clipboard and pencil, and let them wander around finding the posters. Once they find them, have them write that word down, using the poster as a reference for spelling.

These posters are also a great reference for the following vocab 

 Students can look at the posters to see how to 
rebuild the story's vocabulary words.

Or if you want a similar activity to use at one of your centers, 
you can use these colorful build-a-word activity mats:



All you need to do is laminate them for extra durability, and cut out the alphabet pieces needed to build the word.



Once you feel your kids are ready to complete some 
sequencing activities on their own, there are two versions of
 two different activities that you can choose from. 

The first activity sequencing activity lets the Old Lady 
"eat" her objects one-by-one! 


 

With both a black and white and a colorful option, 
you have the ability to practice sequencing as a whole group 
or at a center and individually to take home as well.

The next activity, sequencing mats, involves 
cutting and pasting (if you use the black/white option) 
or simply placing object cards in the correct order on the activity mat.



 Now that they've had lots of practice with vocabulary and sequencing
-it's time to read!



Students will LOVE their very own Kindergarten 
There was an Old Lady... book. 

There are two books in this download. 


The first is 11 pages long and practices the words "this", "is", and "a".
"
The second book is 10 pages long and practices the 
words "she", "ate", and "a".

 You can find these two emergent readers here!

Want all that you have seen so far?
Here is a bundle with all of the activities in one!






 Don't forget craft time throughout the week! 
I found a fun bat hat...


You can find directional pictures, 
as well as sample of others that have been decorated at...

A few other quick and easy bat crafts I found off of Pinterest were:

This bat hand print picture with 
foam stars and moon. 

I think this would look cuter on a dark blue paper. 
Slap on some small googly eyes and call it done!


Here is an easy paper plate one. 
You can buy black paper plates at Party City...
...or have the kids paint it if you feel brave!


Here's a picture of quick instructions on 
how to make it...
 Looking for corresponding snacks to add 
some pizzazz to 
your theme?

Check out this fun, cheap snack idea from 


Or what about these? 
They would still be very cute plain with no faces on them.


Read Stellaluna by Janelle Cannon to them while they munch!

"Stellaluna has been charming picture-book readers for years with its moving 
tale of a lost little bat who learns a big lesson about friendship." ~Amazon

Or watch the short video of the book.

Want a longer version?
Here's the movie, presented by Scholastic.

Once their tummies are full, 
you can fly on into nocturnal animals with this neat song.

I'll save all of the ideas and activities that you can do 
with nocturnal animals for a different time! 

You've got enough to plan out for now...

~Til next time
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