4 pages.

Reinforce lots of Common Core State Standards with this sweet easy-reader that incorporates the 5 senses.  Students read, trace, write, add end punctuation, underline the adjectives and color the pictures.

12 pages.

This packet covers lots of Common Core State Standards in simple, quick, and fun ways. 

3 pages.

Before reading The Very Busy Spider, grab your students' attention with this awesome spider cutting "craftivity" and review symmetry at the same time.

5 pages.

Cover LOTS of Common Core State Standards with these grammar cards.  Put them in a pocket chart or on your whiteboard and read the sentences together as a whole group.  For added fun make a spider pointer with the spider pattern, glue it to a Popsicle stick and use it to point to the words as you read them. 

8 pages.

Here's a list of my favorite October books.  Hopefully this will assist you in compiling a collection of your own.  Most of my books I acquired at garage sales, as well as Scholastic book sales.  A book is still my favorite gift to give and receive.

1 page.

Here's a list of my favorite apple books.

4 pages.

Help students improve their writing skills by incorporating adjectives. Includes a blank, black and white, apple worksheet, where students describe the inside and outside of an apple; a filled-in apple in color, to use as an example; + an apple-adjective graphic organizer, where students write describing words in the blank apples, and then use the words to write a sentence below.

19 pages.

Run off on red, yellow and green construction paper; laminate and trim the 66 antonym apples to make puzzles.  Use them for games too, such as Memory Match or toss them in a basket and have students choose several, to play "I Have; Who Has?"   The apples provide 132 words to help build student vocabularies.  A blank apple template is also included.

Be sure and check out my list of 290 antonyms + a cover so students can make their own antonym word booklets.

I've also included 80 synonym leaves with 2 blank leaf templates.  Run off on green construction paper, laminate and trim.  Encourage students to write in synonyms of their own.

5 pages.

Here is a list of common antonyms that your students will probably come across.  It's a wonderful way to build vocabulary.  Give students a word and have them give you an antonym of that word.  You can do 1 a day and have children write it in their vocabulary notebook, or use my Student-made Antonym Dictionary.

1 page.

Use this handy alphabetical list of 72 contractions for an anchor chart, a help list in your students' writing folders, or a checklist of words covered etc.