Halloween

<p>So I&#8217;m trying something new this week. I&#8217;ve been working on using Instagram more and more. So I&#8217;m going to share with you some highlights from my Instagram feed once a week. If you want to check out my Instagram feed &#8211; click on the camera icon on my blog header above. Here is my &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/peek-at-last-week-3/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Some ideas you&#8217;ll love from

<p>Hi Everyone This is just a quick post to showcase my latest product. &nbsp;I can&#8217;t wait to try it out with my class this week &nbsp;It&#8217;s ready, just in time for Halloween. It&#8217;s based on a program called the Knowledge Framework, which is a program designed for ELL students. &nbsp;I find it works really well &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/halloween-bats/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Halloween Bats</spa

<p>Here&#8217;s a little peek of the artwork that I found around the hallways at my school this week. This is such an adorable activity and apparently, super easy and quick. I can&#8217;t wait to try it out next year. &nbsp;The teacher who did this activity found it on Pinterest. She hasn&#8217;t posted it up yet, &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/from-hallways/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about From the Hallways&#8230;</span></

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<p>Well we&#8217;re slowly finishing up our Science unit about Farms. As part of this unit, I used this adorable 3D Life Cycle activity created&nbsp; by Robin Sellers Aren&#8217;t they adorable? The kids really enjoyed making them. (and I think they learned something too) First I read the story It&#8217;s Pumpkin Time by Zoe Hall. &nbsp;This &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/pumpkin-life-cycle-fun/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">abo

<p>I found this adorable witch painting idea from Art Proejcts for Kids. I&#8217;m sorry that it took me so long to get these posted.&nbsp; I actually need to take them down and put up my Remembrance Day art now.&nbsp; I&#8217;m only a week or so behind right? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Here&#8217;s a closeup of a &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/colourful-witches/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Colourful Witches</span></a></p>

<p>Last week we had a lot of fun painting these tiny little pumpkins that my colleague picked up for the kids. &nbsp; &nbsp; I found the idea on pinterest.&nbsp;&nbsp; I changed the eyes to these enormous googly eyes that I found in my stash and painted the pumpkins with acrylic paint and voila!!!! &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/minions-minions-minions/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Minions, minions, minions

<p>This year I decided to decorate my fireplace, like I did at Christmas last year. So the kids and I filled the firebox with pumpkins and haunted houses. &nbsp; &nbsp; Look what I found at Home Sense last week. &nbsp; &nbsp; Don&#8217;t they remind you of the work of Dale Chihuly? I really love this &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/this-year-i-decided-to-decorate-my/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Happy Halloween</span></a>

<p>Do you think that studying grammar is important in early literacy???&nbsp;&nbsp; I think it definitely has a place. For my own grade two class, which is highly ESL, I find that these kinds of exercises are really good for them.&nbsp; They are old enough, and have 2 years of English schooling, in order to understand &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/simple-halloween-freebie/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about A Simple Halloween

<p>I happen to work in a fabulous school.&nbsp; I feel very lucky&nbsp;to&nbsp;not only&nbsp; have a fantastic group of kids to work with, but&nbsp;also a phenomenal staff to work with.&nbsp; I work in a wing that has four classrooms and this year we have two grade one classes and two grade two classes.&nbsp; The four teachers &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/haunted-silhouettes/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Haunted Silhou

<p>Welcome to my newest blog.&nbsp; My latest addiction these days is following other teacher&#8217;s blogs.&nbsp; It may have taken me awhile, but I finally decided to take another leap into blog land.&nbsp; So here&#8217;s it is.&nbsp; Ta-DAAAA!!1&nbsp;&nbsp; Welcome (again) to Sandra&#8217;s Savvy Teaching Tips.&nbsp; Today I&#8217;m&nbsp;sharing&nbsp;a wonderful art project called INCHIES.&nbsp; I found the idea &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/cute-fall-art