Kindergarten Halloween Centers

So I have a love/hate relationship with Halloween.  I love that I get to dress up and how excited my kids are to see my costume, but I hate that the weeks before Halloween are crazy.  I love pumpkins and candy corn and cute fall decorations, but I hate anything scary.  Honestly in years passed I ignored  Halloween until the day of.  But this year I found and made some cute centers that I love and I've been excited to use.

In Math I have a roll to 20 game the kids love playing.  It allows them to practice 1 to 1 counting and it is a game so they don't even realize they are doing math.  Each player rolls the dice and adds the correct number of candy to the board.  I use the candy erasers from Target but you can also use candy corn or pom poms or anything.

You can find it here in my Teacher's Pay Teacher store.  It comes with Candy ten frames and a roll to 20, 50 or 100 game.  It also come in color and black and white.

Another math center I love is my One More and One Less Frankenstein Center.  I just love these little Frankensteins.   Students must write the numbers that are one more and one less of the number given. This math center covers numbers 1-20. A number line is provided for additional support. 18 cards are provided. Simply print, laminate and cut out the cards. Place in a bin with an expo number and optional number line. It can be used as morning work or as a math center.

I also have a Frankenstein Missing Letter Center if you are looking for an activity to practice ABC order.

What do you do in your classroom for Halloween?

Calendar

Do you have your kids make calendars each month?  Our math curriculum is slightly shorter then the school year so my solution to that was to make a calendar each month.  It allows the children to trace the numbers, learn the months of the year and see how a calendar works.  Bonus for me, I no longer have 2 weeks at the end of the year with no math curriculum left.

I love these free calendars from Miss Kindergarten Love.  She includes a traceable and a blank calendar for each month and it is free.  She also updates it each year.

Last year I used these coloring pages from Classroom Doodles each month as the top of the calendar.

They have a page for each month.

This year I decided to start doing a little art project to go with each calendar and my kids are loving it.  Though they are far more creative then me and wanted to do other things besides a cat.  Maybe next month I'll give choices.