Math and Literacy Centers for Fall

Fall has set in and the leaves are starting to change! Have you ever done a Leaf Investigation with your students? It's super easy with this leaf investigation recording sheet and the kids really enjoy it. 

Here are some other activities to add during your leaf study. Leaf Smash is a fun one for working on writing numbers and ten frames to 20. 

Students will love feeding the leaf while practicing counting to 20. Add in some tweezers or tongs for some fine motor practice. 

This Counting Leaves activity packs a punch! Students get practice with fine motor, counting, writing, spelling, and ten frames All-n-One!

Work on addition with these fun fall Spinner Addition Mats! Includes 7 fun themes to choose from, including a leaf for your leaf study!

These Addition Mats are a fun way to work on writing and solving addition facts using a ten frame. 

More ten frame addition if you prefer task cards rather than mats and includes a recording sheet.

If you're a mini eraser hoarder like me lol, this is a Dollar Deal in my shop!

Work on number fluency with this fun Mystery Numbers Activity that puts a fun twist on missing numbers!

Getting started on word problems? These Word Problem Mats are a great way to introduce word problems and another excuse to use those mini erasers {insert wink, lol}!

Your students will have a blast helping the squirrel gather acorns with this one! Just add the squirrel to a magnetic wand and a small paperclip to the corner of each sight word to make them magnetic. Students pick up the sight words with the magnetic squirrel, read them, write them, and then discard them into the acorn. Huge crowd pleaser!

The magnetic squirrel sight word activity was such a crowd pleaser that I also made this one!

And Scarecrow numbers for number practice! 

Feed the Squirrel is another fun one students love for counting practice. These "feed the" activities are just so engaging and motivating for the students.

I'm not sure which they like best...the "feed the" activities or these playdoh smash games! But this Fall Smash is another highly engaging activity that's perfect for practicing beginning sounds and ALL of the picture cards are FALL Themed!

Have students trace their hand to make the tree trunk and tear construction paper to make the leaves. Grab the FREE writing prompt here.

If you're planning to read "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves," I have a StoryMat for that!

Do a Pumpkin Investigation with this fun investigation recording sheet! Students can also survey their classmates, label the parts of a pumpkin, make homemade pumpkin pie, and learn about the pumpkin life cycle with the other activities included.

Work on number order with Pumpkin Mixup!

Grab this fun Roll and Cover Activity here.

Your students will love "baking" up sight words with these fun Pumpkin Cookies!

Practice counting on from a given number with this fun Pumpkin Smash Game!

Who doesn't love a "snacktivity!?" Pull out some pumpkin seeds or make your own from your pumpkin investigation and do some math. Afterwards students can eat them. Grab this freebie here.

Also, be sure to check out my NEW Math and Literacy Puzzles line! I'm really excited about these and I'm adding new ones all the time! This is the CVC one, but there's also beginning sounds, letters, addition, and subtraction sets!

Lastly, don't forget next week is Fire Prevention Week! You can grab this reader here.

Black Friday Wishlist Linky & Giveaway!!

Did you hear about the huge Black Friday Giveaway hosted by "The Primary Pack?" 

One winner will win all 29 of these items....they have compiled the "most wishlisted" items in their stores and are giving them away to one lucky winner on Black Friday!

I'm not a "Go Out" Black Friday shopper, but you can bet I'll be shopping online! Here are some of the top items on my TpT wishlist!

I am so contemplating Deanna's Guiding Kinders Math Workshop. As a special Ed teacher I struggle to find curriculum for my sped students. We have to usually find and develop our own curriculum and I have heard of several schools that are using this product as their sole math curriculum. 

I have also been on a mission to complete a Nevada learning unit for my students and while I love the state symbol sets from "Teacher's Clipart," she does not have Nevada. I have requested Nevada and she said she could make it for me.....yay! Super excited!

My students also needs lots of practice with decomposing numbers and with making words, which will make these two units from Karen Jones and Kindergarten Works come in handy! 

And I just love Deb Hanson's ELA flipbooks. They are great for my higher kids and I may just snag them all when they go on sale! 

And now for the most wishlisted items & best selling items in my TpT store!

You can click on the links below to check out each product:

Cook to Learn

Calculator Math

Let's Write

Science for a Year

Positional Word Posters

Everything in my store will be 20% off all day Friday! 

And better than that, there will be a blog hop with tips, freebies, and giveaways happening on my blog all weekend long...from 25 special education bloggers!!

 That's right....all 25 of us bloggers have prepared a tip and a freebie just for you as our way of showing how thankful we are for you! On Black Friday you can hop to all 25 of these awesome special education blogs above...including me....and grab a tip, freebie, and enter several giveaways! 

So put us on your Black Friday list and then head over to "The Primary Pack" to enter their giveaway and get your wishlist ready. 

October & 2 Awesome Freebies in a Nutshell!

Things are finally settling down in The Bender Bunch classroom.................

OK well, maybe not for the students.........but for me!!!! ha! :)

Finally getting caught up with all the new responsibilities this year! New systems (Infinite campus), the new NV Educator Proficiency Framework (NEPF), new evaluations, goal-setting conferences....new team leader of child find.....and the list seems to go on! But anyway, I'm finally feeling above water and have been dying to blog....so here's what we've been up to this month!

Bat Hats!
This cute craft is from Robin Sellers and can be purchased {here}. And yes I do have more students than this, but 3 are not pictured.

We also made these awesome bat books from Lita Lita, but didn't get pics of this!

You can get it {here}. 

Stockings for Soldiers!!!
A teacher at our school does this project every year and always invites my kiddos to participate! 

Fun Science!!!

Gotta LOVE that face!!!! :)

Pumpkin seeds!!

Pumpkin dip!!! So delicious & easy!

The pumpkin dip recipe is from my.....

The candy science experiments are from my.......

But if I'm lucky enough to have you reading this post, then you're lucky enough to get them for free! 

RECIPE

EXPERIMENT

Have a great night and I hope to be back soon with some fluency drills and money games I'm working on!