Description

Are you ready to take your literacy activities to a new level? Videos, Music, Presentations, Writing Activities, Flash Cards, Coloring Sheets will fill up your students October literacy time with singing, reading, moving and writing activities. Each song (except one rap “The Black Cat”) is set to a familiar nursery rhyme tune with hand actions your students can learn from the videos. These fun songs are easy to learn. Each video has three sections for you to use to help students learn the songs; the singing and action section, singing and reading, singing with the karaoke tracks and lyrics. There are so many ways you’ll be able to meet the needs of all your students using this bundle of diverse materials. Make October learning memorable using these interactive materials.

Young children love to sing and move- and yours will remember these songs and poems as they sing and move to the music, then work on their literacy activities.

READ-SING-MOVE your way through October using these fun activities.

WATCH THE OCTOBER PREVIEW VIDEO FOR SAMPLES OF VIDEO AND MUSIC

BONUS COLORING SHEET “OCTOBER” (In the Teacher Guide)

You will need to download each resource individually. The files are too large to download all at once. Thank you for understanding.

RESOURCE INCLUDES:

This BUNDLE includes 6 Songs for October & Halloween. Each song resource has a Teacher Guide and the following Materials.

Sing and Move Along Video (Downloadable)

Printable and Digital Power Point Files

Google Classroom Google Slides File

MP3 track for each song with vocals

MP3 track for each song karaoke version

Coloring Sheets: Lyrics & Thematic

Flash Cards in 3 sizes to use in Literacy Centers, Daily 5, Pocket Charts

OCTOBER SONGS AND POEMS LITERACY ACTIVITIES INCLUDES:

Poetry Journal (Mini book of all songs and poems)

6 poems and songs about October and Halloween

Presentation in color (and a Google Slides Copy!)

Color Printable & Projectable Posters (poster & landscape size)

Black and White coloring pages: posters with lyrics

Black and White coloring pages: without images for students to create their own

Black and White coloring pages: landscape size coloring sheets

Card Size color posters

Illustrate the Poem/Song page activity

Put the word strips in order strips

Card size booklet pages

Hand actions as needed

Organization and Teaching Tips

SONG TITLES:

“O-c-t-o-b-e-r”

“Three Round Pumpkins”

“Orange and Black”

“Halloween is Coming Soon”

“Cats and Bats”

“The Black Cat”

HOW TO USE:

daily 5 activities

classroom performance for parents or peers

center activities

whole class read a loud

Individual work (extension/gifted activities)

Online- share the poems for students to read aloud to family members

HOW THIS RESOURCE HELPS STUDENTS DEVELOP LITERACY SKILLS:

Oral language-Reading out loud, memorizing, performing

Auditory memory- memorizing and performing

Sequencing- word strips, poems

Small motor skills (fine motor skills)- hand actions and finger plays

Imagination- reading, discussing, creating own ideas

HOMESCHOOL APPLICATIONS:

Your children will love singing and saying these kid friendly poems.

They’ll love making their own little poem books and sharing them with friends and family.

You can have children to memorize 1 and perform for their family.

Video record child reading or acting out the poem or song. Share with friends and family.

When children “sing”, “move” and “read” they make a stronger connection to the material and improve reading skills. Using these activities will help children develop reading and articulation skills.