All things Halloween!

I have been SO excited for fall and the past few days our souther California weather has finally decided to match the season! I have been busy making several fun fall things, and now finally have time to share them with you all for Tara's Monthly Made It!

I have been trying to add to my Daily 5 work word this year, and was excited when I found these adorable Halloween letters that I thought would be perfect for a word work activity! After seeing Tara's magnetic work work activity a few months back, I had been keeping my eye out for fun letters!

These are the letters I found at Michaels in the Halloween section: 

They weren't magnetic, so I put little magnets on the back of the letters so they would stay in place on the cookie sheet. I had my kiddos spell out their spelling words with the magnetic letters. They could do this by themselves or with a partner who has the same spelling words as them. I am using Words Their Way this year and I {LOVE} it! I have been working hard the past couple days on an organizational system for all the lists, which I will hopefully be able to share soon!

Another one of my Halloweeny creations is my fall banner! I created two, this one with the sparkly green ribbon {of course!} for my classroom, and then another one with an orange ribbon for the fireplace! I have it hanging on our classroom door!

Also on our classroom door is a Halloween wreath! I have seen so many adorable wreaths on Pinterest and had been wanting to make one, but just couldn't decide which kind I wanted to make! Then I saw Miss Nelson's stick wreath and knew that it would be a great wreath to start out with for my first time making one! 

I even found a cute witch at JoAnn's! 

And my last completed project is my countdown to Halloween! Here is my inspiration for this project... found it on Pinterest of course! Teri from A Cupcake for the Teacher also made an adorable countdown calendar for Halloween!

I LOVE K&Company's entire Halloween line and am pretty sure I bought up almost every one of their Halloween products! (The Chip Box with the letters is by them as well!) I used their stickers and accents to cover the numbers. I just had to add a magnet to the back of them and they were ready to go!

Here's a picture of the numbers underneath! Of course, I wanted to have it nice and neat with 5 in every row, but because I covered up the numbers after I stuck them on, I lost count after 29, and left out 28! I had to go back and add it in, so now the top row has 6 numbers and the bottom row has 4... Just in case you were wondering why I did it that way... it was not on purpose! But I am still super happy with how it turned out! And my kiddos love it as well! 

That is it for my October Monthly Made it! I'm linking up with Tara, and of course, after seeing her adorable stuffed burlap pumpkins, I am thinking I am going to have to add that to my list of Halloween decorations to make! Especially since I have a ton of burlap left over from my banners!!

And I know I am {super} late to the party, but I am also linking up with Farley for her October Currently!!

I wrote an essay analyzing this book back when I was in college, which is the first time I ever heard of it! It also happens to be one of my favorite papers I ever wrote! Of course now I just use it as a fun Halloween read aloud in October! Love the pictures and rhyming, and the fun twists it takes from the original Cinderella! 

Phew, and that is all for my Halloween fun!!