Theme Pockets, October, Grades 1-3 – Teacher Resource, E-book

Theme Pockets, October contains reproducibles galore -- minibooks, patterns, writing forms. Interactive bulletin boards, calendar form, and up-to-date bibliographies included. Step-by-step instructions provided, including ways to make book covers extra special. Lots of reproducible illustrations included.  Help your students make books with pockets and they'll have a resource they created themselves of which they can be proud.

The three topics for October and examples of the activities that go in the pockets are:

Halloween:

• make a green-faced monster
• mummy in a coffin
• Halloween parade writing
• pop-up Jack-o-lantern
• candy acrostic verse
• ghost riddles

Night Creatures:

• bat facts book
• owl report
• comparing owls & bats Venn diagram
• cut paper and sponge painted owl art project
• make a cuddly koala
• koala concentration cards

Happy and Healthy:

• Cover Your Sneeze Please!
• Be Clean, Be Healthy poster
• healthy snack recipe book
• tooth care minibook
• sport shoe shape book

Lessons include:

• colorful art projects
• creative writing
• nonfiction writing
• science
• informational reading and writing