"The Wheels on the Bus" Halloween Version

 

Hungover Raging Pterodactyls

 

Frankencups

 

School Is Spooky Fun!

 How about letting the students decorate the classroom door? They can cut out pumpkins, ghosts, spooky faces, spiders, or whatever. 

But here's the kicker!

Put a current sight word they're learning, or a math problem (solved), or whatever else they want to show off about school.

And title it SCHOOL IS SPOOKY FUN!

Halloween Writing Prompt

 

Most of the time, teachers ask their students to tell what Halloween costume/character they're going (or want) to be this year.

Do something different!

Instead, have them write or draw a picture of a character/costume they DON'T want to be this year.

Or, what kind of candy/treat they hope to get.

Condolences

 

What Scares You the Most?

Halloween Science: 21 Cracking Ideas

Link here.

Halloween Treat Bags - A Sorting Activity

Why not set up a learning center/station using a set of those bargain dollar store 3x5 Halloween treat bags?

Just tell the students to sort them into 2 piles, 3 piles, etc. How they want to sort them (by color, by picture, whatever) is up to them.

Halloween Alphabet

On the board, write the alphabet vertically. 
Ex:

A -
B -
C -

Challenge the class to find a Halloween-related word for each letter.

This makes for a great journal activity, and helps with their writing/copying.

A Cheap Halloween Costume

Wishing You an AWESOME Halloween!

Make a Jack-o-Lantern Game and Freebie!

 What makes this game so much fun is that I can change out the die, which changes the clue sheet!

You can put numbers on the clue sheet, and use a die with dots, numbers, tally marks, or number words. I've also put alphabetical letters, sight words, and shapes on the die.

To play:
* roll the die
* check the clue sheet to learn what you can place on your pumpkin
* if you've already placed that feature on the pumpkin, you lose that turn (with the exception that you'll need 2 eyes, the rest use 1 item)
* first person to complete their jack-o-lantern (see below) wins!

Below is the jack-o-lantern parts and the clue sheet. Just click on the images, which are already 8.5 x 11 inches in size.

My Math Stations for the Weeks of 10/14 and 10/21

Continuing with our Halloween theme:

Station 1: Calendar Math, with October

Station 2: Halloween dominoes (see source here)

Station 3: I'm using this "roll and cover" as a Bump game. Simply played, each player gets their own color markers. When they roll a number, they cover it with their marker. If another player rolls the same number, they can "bump" the previous marker and replace it with their own. Game is over when all the numbers have been covered. And the person with the most markers on the board wins.

Station 4: Build a Jack-o-Lantern! I made this game on my own. I'll repost on Friday with the game pieces as a freebie!

Station 5: Spider Legs! I got this idea from a post on Pinterest, and adapted it for myself. In short, each student gets a spider play sheet (I put them inside page protectors until I can get them laminated.) A student rolls 2 dice. If the total equals 8, he gets to draw a leg on his spider with a wipe-off marker. First student to put all 8 legs on his spider wins.

My Language Arts Stations for the Weeks of 10/14 and 10/21

We're celebrating Halloween these next two weeks!

Station 1: Guided Reading with me. We're doing the "Going Batty!" game, which you can see and grab the freebie template here.

Station 2: Computers and Listening Center

Station 3: Highlight a Letter (source here)

Station 4: Spooky Spin and Write. I found this idea on Pinterest, but there was  no link to where I could buy it, so I made my own copy. You can grab the freebies below that are already 8.5 x 11 in size.

(Here's the spinner.)

(You can download the PDF of the Spin and Write sheet here.)

Basically, it's played this way:
* spin
* write the beginning letter of the picture it lands on
* first person to complete an entire row across wins

I placed my pages in protective sleeves, and have the kids use Vis-a-Vis markers to write their letters. Later I will get the pages laminated.

Station 5: Write the Room using the blue index cards we used the past two weeks to label things with.

Going Batty! (with a Freebie!)

My stations for the next two weeks will have a Halloween theme in them, just to give the kids a little thrill. One of them in the Language Arts center I call "Going Batty!".

I took a bat graphic and made a page of them, then ran them off on brown cardstock. On one wing I put a sight word, and a point value on the other wing. (You can get this page for yourself by just clicking on the jpeg image below, which is already 8.5 x 11.)

The object is to draw a bat from the "cave". If you can read the word, you get that number of points noted on its wings. Points, in this case, are the use of those little Halloween mini-erasers. The way I figured out which words get what number of points was to basically do this: one letter in the word = 1 point, 2 letters = 2 points, 3 letters = 3 points, etc.

If a child reads the word correctly, they keep that card. If not, the bat flies back into its cave. Game ends when all the cards have been drawn. Person with the most points wins!

Music And October

Click here for the Table of Contents, and a Freebie Halloween Song.

You can buy it here for just 99 cents via PayPal.

Or here through Teachers Pay Teachers.

Pumpkin Math

We figured out the circumference of our class pumpkin by using a length of yarn. Then we measured the yarn using several differnt objects such as pencils, popsicle sticks, paper clips, unifix cubes, and markers. After marking our findings in a graph, we discussed more, less, and figured out that the smaller the object, the more we needed.

Of Ghoulies and Ghosties...

Lay hand down on black construction paper, fingers closed. Trace hand with white crayon. Fill in ghost. Use black crayon to make mouth. Add googly eyes. Voila! A "spooktacular" piece of art!