Celebrating Women's History Month: Rosa Parks

As we continue through Women's History Month, we take a look at another amazing woman who paved the way; Rosa Parks. She was born on February 4, 1914 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa Parks was an African-American Civil Rights Activist who refused to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. In doing so she was arrested and convicted, these actions began the Montgomery Bus Boycott. An amazing woman who faced many hardships afterwards, but changed history. Rosa Parks passed away on October 24, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan.

Activities:

Rosa Parks: How I Fought for Civil Rights (Scholastic)

Worksheets:

Rosa Parks: Mini Book
Reading Comprehension: Story of Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks Coloring Page
Rosa Parks Word Scramble
Rosa Parks Coloring Page 2

Books:

 

Halloween Activities

I can't believe Halloween is just a few weeks away!! With that it even means our first baby is due (yes, she's due on Halloween). I'm so ready for some candy, some Halloween fun, and of course, our new little bundle of joy :)!

Anyways, over the course of this week, I'll be adding some new Halloween posts regarding a variety of subjects... so be on the lookout!

Below are some activities to get you started for the week, that you can use for some Halloween fun within your classroom...

Also don't forget to always check The Mailbox's website, they have some great activities as well.

Other:

• Halloween Web Hunt --- a variety of on-line activities your students can complete
• Paper Mache Pumpkin
• Halloween Word Search

Below are a variety of math activities you can use with your students...

• Max's Halloween Tooth Math Activity (patterns)
• Math Activities from Hotel Transylvania 
• Pumpkin Color By Number
• Math Crush -- Scroll down and you'll see a few Halloween activity sheets (estimating and fill in the blank) -- better suited for older kids
• Classroom Jr. -- Worksheets on adding and subtracting, number recognition, and multiplication
• Super Mom -- Spider Matching Worksheet - Numbers
• Cute Math Worksheets -- A variety of math worksheets for the younger grades
• Candy Graphing -- Candy Graphing activity
• Halloween Missing Numbers
• Ghosts
• A Web of Numbers Counting Practice -- from TeacherspayTeachers
• Have students guess how many candy corns are in a jar/cauldron 

Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble... Here are a few science activities to get your student brewing ...

• Exploration of Bats
• SLIME! 
• Oobleck

Here are some Reading and Writing activities...

• For Older Students
• All About Vampires
• All About Mummies
• All About Ghosts
• All About Werewolves
• All About Zombies
• All About Witches
• Adjectives -- found this cute little activity on Step into 2nd Grade while I was surfing websites, can't wait to try.
• Bat Poem from the Mailbox --- will open in a PDF file

Here are some activities regarding the history of Halloween...

• Where Does Halloween Come From? --- A reading comprehension worksheet regarding the origins of Halloween 
• History of Halloween
• The History of Halloween from Scholastic's Website

Easy Flag Holder for the Front Door

I've always been at a loss how I could hang up some of my extra flags for holidays when I don't have a wreath. So, as I was walking around the yard I noticed the umpteen thousand sticks in the yard just lying around - they would be extremely useful instead of just hanging around the yard. 

When it finally dawned on me that I could use one of them to hang my extra flags up... I grabbed as many as I could. I then laid them on my kitchen counter to see which one would work perfectly... at least lengthwise. 

Now, your probably thinking okay... this is a Halloween flag and we're in July. Well, as I've started this blog I've gone back through majority of my pictures and have found ones that I've done and just want to share with everyone :).

Anyways, after figuring out which stick would work perfectly with my flag I placed the flag onto the stick and tried to center it the best that I could. Once, it was centered to my liking I grabbed some balloon ribbon and tied it to both ends of the stick. I then lightly tied it on one end and to the door knocker. This way I could easily interchange when I wanted to.
It gives our door a little simplistic feel especially when I don't have a wreath to place on my door. Plus, it lets me make use of all my other flags that I love without having to remember to keep interchanging everything or figure out which one I really want to put out.