Fall is here :)

I don't know about you, but I love Fall. Here in Texas, we don't really get the traditional Fall weather. It's still 80 degrees most days and we don't have many trees so we don't have beautiful leaves everywhere. We do, however, have pumpkins on the front porch, PSLs at the Starbucks drive thru and pumpkin bread in the oven.

In my classroom, the moment the calendar says October the pumpkin themed lessons and activities begin! One of my favorites is our Adjective Pumpkins. I introduce adjectives using a cute anchor chart with a pumpkin drawn on it. I give each student a sticky note and I ask them to write one word to describe the pumpkin on that sticky note. We add them all to the chart and then discuss how pumpkin is a noun and all the words that they wrote are adjectives. I use this great resource from Teacher Idea Factory for activities.

One of the activities in this amazing resource is the Adjective Pumpkin Craftivity. There is a list of adjectives that you can cut apart and put in a bucket. Each student will pull out one adjective and that is how they will decorate their pumpkin. These always turn out SO cute! Check out our precious hallway display.

 

Aren't they so cute?!?

We have also been studying different types of sentences.  After introducing declarative and interrogative sentences I have the students do a sentence sort. It's nothing special but it is fun and festive! I'll post it soon :) 

Happy Fall Y'all!