Category: October
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$1.50Add to Cart26-word, printable Fall – Autumn Word Search puzzle!
Words:
corn maze
pumpkin pie
chocolate
season
apple
hayride
apple cider
pinecone
football
turkey
acorn
autumnal equinox
October
November
cornucopia
cranberry
harvest
autumn
corn
thanksgiving
scarecrow
squash
feast
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Looking for a fun and creative pumpkin themed activity? This resource will excite and motivate students to write. With 6 funny pumpkin faces and 3 differentiated writing papers, students will love writing and publishing an imaginative story.
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Twelve fun seek and find picture puzzles, each with a monthly theme! Similar to “I Spy”, each worksheet has 7 different images. Students will find, count and record the number of times each image is spotted! Print and go to give each student a worksheet or laminate to use again and again!
Answer keys included
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A multi-age lesson to teach students (1st – 5th grades) about trees! The lesson is designed as a Fall (Autumn) outdoor/indoor activity lesson as the leaves are changing colors but can be easily converted to an indoor activity only. If using as an indoor only activity, be sure to have photos of trees to incorporate into the lesson.
Students will learn about:-
What trees provide
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Aspects of a ‘living’ tree (how they get water, nutrients and breathe)
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Parts (and their function) of a tree: roots, trunk, bark, branches, leaves
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How leaves make food
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Types of trees: deciduous and evergreen
Includes:
– Teacher lesson notes (guide)
– Student informational text
– Student activity worksheet pages
– Answer keys -
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Fall-Themed Haiku Poetry Writing Pack | Visual Prompts & Publishing Pages to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$5.75Add to Cart
Bring the beauty, colors, and rhythm of autumn into your writing block! This comprehensive Fall-Themed Haiku Poetry Pack is designed to teach students the traditional art of haiku poetry while sparking their creativity through vibrant, nature-inspired visual prompts. From colorful foliage and forest wildlife to pumpkin patches and harvest tables, this resource gives learners everything they need to brainstorm, draft, and publish their own seasonal masterpieces.
📦 What’s Included in This Resource?
- Haiku Instruction & Anchor Chart Page: A clear, student-friendly reference guide breaking down the origins of Japanese haiku, the traditional focus on nature, the 5-7-5 syllable structure, and mentor poem examples.
- 20 Full-Color Photo Prompts: Breathtaking, autumn-themed photography prompts featuring winding forest boardwalks, mountain foliage, waterfalls, wildlife (owls, deer, wolves, foxes/cats, wild turkeys, squirrels), orchard harvests, trains through autumn trees, and Thanksgiving displays.
- 11 Student Drawing & Writing Template Pages: Formatted drawing pages where students can sketch, illustrate, or paste their own fall observations before writing.
- 26 Additional Themed Publishing Pages:
- 9 Full-Color Pages with Borders and/or Images: Illustrated pages featuring vibrant autumn leaves, seasonal berries, harvest motifs, and arched window frames.
- 17 Black-and-White Color-In Pages: Engaging line art featuring pumpkins, autumn leaves swirling in the wind, scarecrows, acorns, pinecones, cozy hedgehogs, turkeys, bare trees, and Thanksgiving harvest feasts.
✨ Benefits of Using This Resource
- Eliminates Writer’s Block: High-quality visual prompts immediately trigger sensory details, making it easy for reluctant writers to find words and imagery.
- Strengthens Syllabication & Phonological Awareness: Counting out the 5-7-5 syllable pattern builds word awareness, pronunciation skills, and intentional vocabulary selection.
- Multi-Age & Differentiated Friendly: Simple enough for early elementary students learning basic syllable counts, yet rich enough for middle-grade writers refining figurative language and concise imagery.
- Display-Ready Work: The decorative color and color-in publishing sheets double as beautiful bulletin board displays, portfolio additions, or keepsake poetry gifts for families.
- Zero Prep: Just print and teach!
🎯 Common Core Standards Covered
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3 / RF.2.3 / RF.3.3: Phonological Awareness & Word Recognition (identifying syllables, breaking words into syllable segments).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.5 / W.2.5 / W.3.5 / W.4.5: Writing Process (planning, drafting, revising, and focusing on concise word choice).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.4 / RL.3.4 / RL.4.4: Craft and Structure (identifying how rhythm, structure, and poetic forms create imagery and meaning).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.5 / L.4.5 / L.5.5: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use (exploring figurative language, sensory descriptions, and word nuances).
✏️ How to Use in the Classroom or Homeschool
- Introduce & Model: Display the introductory reference sheet. Review the 5-7-5 syllable rule and clap out syllables together using the mentor examples.
- Brainstorm with Visuals: Project one of the 20 photo prompt cards or pass them out to small groups. Have students jot down descriptive adjectives, autumn verbs, and sensory words based on what they see.
- Draft & Count: Students arrange their ideas into three distinct lines, tapping or clapping to verify their syllable counts.
- Publish & Illustrate: Choose from the full-color decorative pages or let students personalize one of the black-and-white coloring pages to frame their finished haiku. Alternatively, use the blank frame sheets for an outdoor nature-walk sketch activity!
🛒 Ready to Inspire Your Young Poets? Add a splash of autumn wonder to your language arts lessons today!
👉 Download your Fall-Themed Haiku Poetry Pack now and watch your students’ seasonal creativity take flight! 🍁📝✨
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A Day in History – Investigation Station | October 24 Pony Express to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$1.00Add to Cart
A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research and writing activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This resource focuses on the Pony Express.
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
So…with each lesson, students will:
▪ (Read) Learn one ‘On this Day in History’ fact.
▪ (Investigate) Take a related topic and explore it through the use of different forms of media (i.e. books, internet).
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A Day in History – Investigation Station | October 21 Edison – Electric Light to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$1.00Add to Cart
A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research and writing activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This resource focuses on the day that Thomas Edison invented a practical electric light for home use!
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
So…with each lesson, students will:
▪ (Read) Learn one ‘On this Day in History’ fact.
▪ (Investigate) Take a related topic and explore it through the use of different forms of media (i.e. books, internet).
▪ (Write) Summarize and write what they have discovered. This also should include the recording of sources. -
A Day in History – Investigation Station | October 14 Martin Luther King Jr to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$1.00Add to Cart
A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research and writing activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This resource focuses on the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize (October 14, 1964).
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
So…with each lesson, students will:
▪ (Read) Learn one ‘On this Day in History’ fact.
▪ (Investigate) Take a related topic and explore it through the use of different forms of media (i.e. books, internet).
▪ (Write) Summarize and write what they have discovered. This also should include the recording of sources. -
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FUN Fall writing activity. This resource has been designed to help students plan out and write a fun, Fall-themed story! Can be used again and again as things will change each time students use the activity because of the roll of the dice.
Using this resource, students will roll one die 4 times and use the chart to help determine the character, setting, weather and conflict that should be in their story. Then, they will plan out their story on given pages:
– Character Planner
– Setting Planner
– Story PlannerAfter all planning is complete, they will write their stories!
Will their stories be about a fox, a mouse, a scarecrow, a raven, a badger or a turkey?
Will it happen in an apple orchard, a corn silo, a pumpkin patch, a hollow tree, a corn field or an old barn?
Will it be during the first frost, in rainy or windy weather? Will it be too hot or during an early snow? Will there be a tornado warning?
What will be the conflict? An oncoming tractor, finding a winter home, seeing that the leaves aren’t falling yet (oh, no!)? Is the farmer too sick to harvest is crop? Or is the crop in danger because of the weather or insect?
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I’m a Little Pumpkin unit centers around a sweet poem that can be sung to “I’m a Little Teapot”. This unit will have students creating a fun booklet centered around the poem.
Includes:
- * Two colorful poem posters
- * A poem tracing and coloring page
- * 2 differentiated poem booklets for students to create (in both, students will recreate the poem, color and draw)
– One for students to trace the words
– One for students to copy the words - * Trace the pumpkin page
- * Pumpkin coloring page
- * Pumpkin life cycle page
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Daily Writing Prompt Journals – ONE YEAR BUNDLE
Stop the “I don’t know what to write about!” struggle before it starts. This comprehensive One Year Bundle provides a seamless, year-round solution for developing consistent writing habits, critical thinking skills, and creative expression for students in 4th – 12th Grade. Whether it’s a deep dive into historical amendments or a light-hearted reflection on world kindness, this bundle ensures your students have a meaningful reason to put pen to paper every single day of the year.
What’s Included?
This isn’t just a list of sentences; it is a complete journaling system. Each month is packed with:
- Individual Journal Pages: A unique, dedicated page for every calendar day.
- Diverse Prompt Styles: A balanced mix of “light and fun” topics and “deep-dive” prompts that challenge students to think critically about values, history, and social issues.
- Calendar-Synced Content: Many prompts are tied to historical events (like the Prohibition Amendment), awareness months (like Tourette’s Syndrome Awareness), or holidays (like Veterans Day).
Why & How to Use This Bundle
Whether you are an educator or a homeschooling parent, you probably know that the hardest part of writing is often just getting started. This bundle removes that barrier.
How to implement it:
- Daily Starts: Start your morning or English period with a 10-minute quiet writing session.
- Fast-Finisher Activity: Keep your “early birds” engaged with a meaningful task that doesn’t feel like “busy work.”
- Homeschool Portfolios: Use these daily entries to track progress in handwriting, grammar, and expressive thought throughout the year.
- Digital or Print: These pages are designed to be “print-and-go” ready, but they also work beautifully as digital assignments. Simply give them to your student(s) and allow them to create a word document for each. First, have them copy (type) the prompt. Then answer it! Print and place in a growing 3 ring-binder of work.
The Benefits of Daily Prompting
Daily writing is like a workout for the brain. By using these journals, students will:
- Build Writing Stamina: Consistent practice helps students move from “dreading” a blank page to filling it with ease.
- Strengthen Critical Thinking: Prompts regarding laws, ethics, and social awareness require students to analyze and form their own opinions.
- Encourage Research: Specific prompts (like National Tourism Week or Tourette’s Awareness) invite students to learn more about the world around them.
- Develop Empathy: Topics like World Kindness Day and Veterans Day help students step outside their own experiences and consider the perspectives of others.
Sample Prompt Sneak Peek:
January 16th – Prohibition: If you could make something that is legal become illegal, what would it be? How would you enforce the law?
May 2nd – National Tourism Week: You have been assigned to develop a tour of your community. What places would you highlight and why?
November 13th – World Kindness Day: “No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” ~ Aesop. Tell about a time when someone was kind to you.
Get Started Today!
Equip your students with the tools they need to become confident, thoughtful writers. From the first of January to the end of December, your writing curriculum is officially handled.
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A fun and whimsical cross-curricular activity that your students will love. Students will read a ‘going back in time’ narrative about a young man finding himself aboard a ship with Christopher Columbus. After reading the passage and answering a few ‘get you thinking’ questions, students will be asked to ‘complete the story’. Ask students not only to use their knowledge and skills of writing but also their knowledge about Columbus, the time, the passage to the ‘New World’, living conditions, etc. You may also ask them to do a little research to find out more about the subject before completing the story.
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This circle letter resource is designed to give younger students the ability to see a word and then spell it using circle letter manipulatives. This resource can be used to reinforce letter learning, letter sounds, formation of words and much more.
With an October-theme, students will love creating / forming words that are related to Halloween such as bat, web, pumpkin, squash, candy, spider, cat, leaf and house. You will receive two copies of each word mat (color and b/w).
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Whimsical Unit designed for use during October and November with PreK – Kindergarten students to practice fine motor, math and language arts skills!
29 student pages offering plenty of tracing, matching, copying, counting, early reading and more.
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This resource, Pumpkin Poetry, has been created to spark your students’ imaginations and creative writing!
Watch a preview video here.Covering 9 different types of poetry:
- Acrostic
- Diamante
- Haiku
- Limerick
- Mono rhyme
- Cinquain
- Minute
- Tanka
- Shape
See description below for more details.
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You’ll find a variety of Language Arts, Math and Science activities in P is for Pumpkin! These 52 pages have all been designed to be used while studying the letter P and as well as adding some learning FUN in October and November!
See a list of skills in the description below.
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The resource, The Pumpkin Patch – Rebus Story, Comprehension & Shape Book, has been designed for early learners! Those beginning to read will enjoy reading this ‘Pumpkin Patch Story’ and using the rebus picture key to help!
After students read the story, there is one worksheet to test their comprehension. The final part of the resources is a cute, 3 page Pumpkin Shape Book.
See suggested uses in description below.
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$3.00Add to CartPumpkin Science has several fun, hands-on activities that ask students to compare, contrast, observe, estimate, count, sort, investigate, graph and much more…Students can even create a Pumpkin Science Journal or use pages as notebooking pages.See more about this product in the description below.
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$6.99Add to CartThis download contains 160 student pages PACKED with 2nd Grade learning! In it, you’ll find a variety of fun and engaging worksheets, puzzles and activities that will allow students to learn, practice and review needed skills: 1, 2 and 3 digit Addition and Subtraction, Principles of Multiplication, Multiplication x2, Number Sense, Greater than / Less than, Fractions, Shapes, Patterns, Money, Writing, Rhyming, Classification, Phonics, Syllables, Reading, Sight Words and more!
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Help students learning to count and recognize number words (numbers 0-20) with these self-checking puzzles!
Print, laminate and use! Students will match each number, number word and picture. If correct, the pieces will fit together.
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