If You Give a Teacher a Treat: Decorations and Activities

This has been quite the hectic week! But, today is Friday, and school is out and I am looking forward to the weekend (well not my class tomorrow, but the rest). In school today, I finally got some things hung up in the room that I have had laminated and moved around my desk and some tables to make the room more workable. We FINALLY got our students computers today, as well. Our old ones were taken out over the summer and then when the new ones came in, they didn't have Windows 7, so they were shipped back. It has been crazy without them. I like to use them for listening to reading, spellingcity during word work and they are needed for the students to take their Accelerated Reader tests. What else do you use your students computers for? I would love to know!

Now on to why I named this blog post decorations and activities! I have been so down about not being able to do much season/holiday related activities, and I finally realized that I just need to get more creative. There are tons of halloween/fall themed activities out there on Pinterest and TpT, and I found some great ones that I want to share with you.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Costumes-Character-Traits

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Packet-Sample-Freebie

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-ABC-Order-Center-Activity

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Verb-Action

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fall-Synonym-Match-Up-FREEBIE

I also got creative today and decided to decorate my door in a fall theme...check it out!

Then this afternoon, my colleague and I put together our 3rd grade classes and had a blast doing a food chain activity called Food Chain Hospital, which I got from this life science packet that is WONDERFUL: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Ultimate-Life-Science-Unit/. The kids had a lot of fun and did a great job with the challenge of putting together the puzzle pieces and then putting the food chain in order.