First Five for Friday of October

October is here, and I love seeing the seasons change.  And I am ready for October!  I am linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday.

Here are my five random things!

The leaves are starting to turn such pretty colors.  Here is the tree right off my deck.  Love it!

My husband did not want to decorate for Halloween this year.  Not that he doesn't like it all out, but he just didn't feel like getting it all out. I know he would have done it, but I got home at a decent time on Monday.  While the kids were outside playing, I decorated for Halloween.  Here is our bannister.  The lights are from his Mom when he was a kid.  Aren't they great?  After Halloween, we will take the pumpkins off and just have the lights up through Thanksgiving.  It makes it feel so homey!

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I have been working with a push in model with first grade, which is new for me.  I sit at a table with a group during reading groups and do some activities to help them out.  The new reading series we have, The SuperKids, has these little "10 Minute Tuck Ins".  The one for Friday was to have the kids trace over the words while reading them and then write the words.  I decided to add some fun to them by writing over them with glue.  Here are the kids as they trace over the "glue" words.

It was "Fun Friday" for my second graders.  We worked all week on adding -ed to the ends of words and how to figure out a word with an -ed ending and not say "jumpted".  Today we played a game to go with my -ed reader, "The Cars Raced".  They loved it!  I am working on finishing up the unit to have it listed soon!

So, what have you done fun this week?  Link up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching and find out more too!