October Writing Prompts and Coloring Pages at TPT

My littles have asked for autumn/Halloween coloring pages as one of their library centers for next week, so here's what I came up with for them. Many of them enjoy "rainbow coloring," so I know the white ghosts aren't going to end up being a waste of paper, hee hee!

The images are large, cute, and easy-to-color pages for October! Some have writing prompts to help emergent writers as they sound out a response while others have text that supports the image. These are a fun way to develop fine motor coordination and get into the autumn spirit as we head toward Halloween!

Perfect for pre-k, kindergarten, first-grade and library centers!

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Autumn-Themed Sentence Starts and Label Pack at TPT!

 It's been quite some time since I've been inspired to create activities for emergent writers and readers to offer to educators over at Teachers Pay Teachers, but this weekend's cooler weather and changing leaves did the trick, providing me with inspiration while Mr. Coffee kept me fueled, warm and cozy with my autumn beverage of choice.

Students can write on pages featuring individual or combined images, and can utilize a word bank while labeling parts of the same clip art!

Head over to see the pack and make sure to check out my other autumn/October activities featured this month!

Kindergarten Worries

At the beginning of the year I read Wemberly Worried to my Super Stars, and we talked about our own fears and concerns as we made new friends and learned how to work and play together in kindergarten.

Fast forward eight months: we revisited the story today, and students thought back to what it was like when we first met.  "Mrs. Sommerville?  What did YOU worry about when we came to your class?"

I worried about remembering everyones' name.  

For journal time, the Stars decided that today's writing prompt should be "I was worried..."

I LOVE journal time:

This Star was worried she'd have homework, l-o-t-s of homework in kindergarten.

This friend worried that 1) he wouldn't remember his new friends' names, 2) the teacher would eat students and 3) he'd have to eat gross food in the cafeteria.

One young lady was fearful about fashion...

... and this fella was concerned I'd have two heads:

As we close in on the end of the year, I can joke with him:  Honey, now you know I have four heads, not two!

"Yeah right Mrs. Sommerville.  I told my grandma you had five."

Ba-dum-dum-ching.  Nicely done.