I have been "boo-ed" and 95 Halloween Writing Prompts

I have been absent for a few days.  Yesterday, I drove four hours to go to the baby shower of one of my best friends.  It would have been a long day with a four drive home. However, I hit tons of traffic and my four drive turned into a six hour drive.  The only thing that made my drive decent was my audio book of Under the Jolly Roger, the third book in the Bloody Jack Series by L.A.  Meyer.  This series is fantastic!  I am loving it.  If you teach middle school or high school, you should read it.  If you are just looking for a fun read with a spunky, adventurous heroine, you should read it. Anyway, I left the house at 7:30am and got home at 11:30pm.  Today was a long day...

I have been "Booed" several times and for a couple different linky parties. 

First, I was "boo-ed" by SoS Supply for the linky party at Tori's Teacher Tips.

Here are the rules for the linky party:

 

1. Give a shout out to the blogger who booed you and link back to their site!

2. Share 3-5 October activities, books, products (yours or someone else), or freebie(s) that you love!

3. Share the Boo love with 5 bloggers- make sure you check this link to make sure you don't boo someone again:  http://toristeachertips.blogspot.com/2012/10/ive-been-booed-fun-october-linky.html

And don't forget to tell them that they have been BOOED!

4. Link up {here} so that others can find you and read about your October ideas! And while you are there... check out the other great blogs!

I was boo'd twice for Cynthia's linky party at 2nd Grade Pad. I was boo'd by Emily at I Love My Classroom and Katie at I want to Be a Super Teacher.

Here are the rules for this linky:

• Choose a fellow blogger that has MORE followers, another that has about the SAME number of followers, and last, someone that has LESS followers.
• Highlight their blogs with links to encourage others to check them out. Don't forget to let your fellow bloggers know that you shared about them. 
• Lastly, leave them some love by offering them a goody from your store as their "treat."

First, l will tell you my plans for some Halloween activities in my classroom.  Then, I will boo some other people.

I have been working on putting together some Halloween Writing Prompts similar to my 100 Back to School Writing Prompts and 100 Persuasive Writing Prompts.  There are 95 writing prompts and writing paper.

I am looking forward to using these this week and next.  It will be a lot of fun. I have included 95 prompts with lots of cute clipart (thanks to TpT) as well as writing paper.

Thanks to everyone's suggestions I also plan on reading several Halloween picture books.  The two I am most looking forward to using are:

I Need My Monster by Amada Noll

The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin by Joe Troiano

I want to find some cute Halloween Math activities.  I know there are tons on TpT.  Any recommendations?  I really would like to find some cute math puzzles or project ideas related to multiplication, division, or decimals.

I would like to pass on the boo to the following 5 people.  (I am combining the two linkies to pass on the boo).

Bridget at Little Lovely Leaders. - She has a fabulous blog with tons of great resources, including amazing freebies for the 7 Habits for Happy Kids.


Kristin at iTeach 1:1 - She has tons of great technology ideas!

Ari at The Science Penguin - Ari has my favorite resources for Science on TpT.



Tammy at Life, Love, Literacy - She has great ideas for all subjects and has been a really supportive follower.

Nikki at Sent from my iPad - More great technology ideas!



All of these ladies will get a copy of my Halloween Writing Prompts and one other item of their choice from my TpT store.

Monday Made It: Writing Prompts and Shared Writing Journals Covers

Yay! Monday Made It.  I'm so excited to be off today, too.  Friday the 13th marked the end of my career 3 (technical writing).  Next Monday I start training at my new school.  So this week is like my "summer."  I'm excited.

Remember my Back to School writing prompts?  (Thank you, Katie, for the original inspiration for prompts in a jar.) Well, I finished putting them together.  Thanks to other people's Fantastic Friday Finds and lots of bargain shopping, I got what I needed to finish putting stuff together. I went to Michael's and got one of those paper trimmers 40% plus the teacher's discount. (Thank you, Tonya, for telling us about the sale.) I also found two packages of 250 sheets of card stock for $7.99. 

I got some jars and containers at Dollar Tree.  (I am proud of those craft caddies.  Target has some for $2.50, but these were $1.00, so after like 3 Dollar Trees I found 10.  I will use them for something!)

I had a Xyron from my monther-in-law I had never used.  Thank you, Elizabeth, for recommending it. (The laminator function did not go very far, but I tried it out.  The adhesive sheets are cool though.  I made my jar label stickers this way, and am also going to redo the labels for my teacher toolbox this way.  The glue dots are not sticking.)

So after printing on my speckled card stock and much cutting and more cutting.  I still need to finish laminating.  That is on the to-do-list for today.  I also made the jar labels a little cuter. You can get them here.

I made some persuasive writing prompts, too.  I intend to make some narrative ones as well.  You can get my 100 persuasive writing prompts here.

I also love this idea Tara and some others have for shared writing journals.  I want to pair them with my writing prompts.  So I made journal covers for different kinds of writing (like persuasive, descriptive, letter writing, stories, poetry, newspaper articles, etc.) as well as topics (like sports, movies, video games, pets, music, family/friends, etc.)  I will have to wait and see which ones I want to use.  I made 26 covers, but I don't think I will actually have that many shared writing journals.  I was trying to decide which ones I wanted. You can get them here.

In case you missed my "Connect the Faces" freebie activity from my guest post at Learning is something To Treasure on Saturday, here you go.


Connect the Faces

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Made It Monday: Back to School Writing Prompts

I am excited to link up for Monday Made It. 

I have been inspired by Katie's writing prompts in a jar for awhile now.  So I decided to make some back to school writing prompts.  (You can get them at my TpT store here.)

I really want to create different prompts and cards for all sorts of themes and types of writing.  This started the search for the right type of container or jar.  I have looked everywhere and so far I am thinking of using these mini-canister plastic jars at Dollar Tree.  They also have these plastic stackable baskets that two of the jars fit perfectly.  I think then I could stack them up and have a whole little writing prompt area.

I wanted my writing prompts to reflect different types of writing so I created 100 prompts with 10 prompts for each of the following types of writing:

Persuasive Writing

Expository Writing
Newspaper Articles
Descriptive Writing
Personal Narratives
Creative Writing – Stories
Creative Writing – Poetry
Responding to Quotes
Letter Writing
Comic Strips
Here is a little preview.  I just need to print, cut, and laminate them.

I also made jar labels: