| With more and more Halloween celebrations
| |
| | what you would buy if you had $20. If
|
| taking place in the classroom, at home
| |
| | your children are old enough, have them
|
| parties, or at community events, here are
| |
| | calculate the tax for your area.
|
| some cross-curricular Halloween
| |
| | 11. Review following directions,
|
| activities for you to enjoy.
| |
| | measurement, health, and safety by making
|
| 1. Read a Halloween poem or song and find
| |
| | Halloween cupcakes, a cake, or cookies.
|
| rhyming words, similes, metaphors, nouns,
| |
| | Use Halloween-related cutters, food
|
| verbs, onomatopoeia, and so on.
| |
| | coloring for frosting, and small candies
|
| 2. Find Halloween-related words in the
| |
| | as decorations. Of course, adults should
|
| dictionary by using guide words. Divide
| |
| | supervise children.
|
| them into syllables, write the accent
| |
| | 12. Use a pumpkin for the following
|
| mark, tell the part of speech, give the
| |
| | activities:a. Cut out the stem, take out
|
| definition, add suffixes...whatever
| |
| | the seeds, and carve out the pulp
|
| skills you want to review.
| |
| | (refrigerate it). Have children draw a
|
| 3. Research the origin of Halloween and
| |
| | face for a jack-o-lantern and cut it
|
| its symbols. Write a report and include a
| |
| | out.b. Roast the pumpkin seeds and have
|
| bibliography.
| |
| | store-bought seeds on hand. Let children
|
| 4. Brainstorm a list of Halloween words
| |
| | eat both and compare the taste, texture,
|
| and create your own crossword,
| |
| | and color.c. Heat the pulp until it is
|
| kriss-kross, or word search puzzles.
| |
| | soft and use it to make your own pumpkin
|
| 5. Write a Halloween story or a short
| |
| | pie! (NOTE: One recipe usually makes
|
| play. Perform the play and tape it!
| |
| | three regular pies.) Make sure to save
|
| 6. Tape the class singing Halloween songs
| |
| | pieces for the principal and others in
|
| and play them on October 31.
| |
| | your school. Tell children to remember
|
| 7. See how many 3-letter words you can
| |
| | the taste so they can compare it to a
|
| make out of 'Halloween.'
| |
| | store-bought pumpkin pie.d. Make sure to
|
| 8. Cut out Halloween pictures from
| |
| | take pictures of each step. Have children
|
| different print media to make cards or a
| |
| | write a caption for each one and make a
|
| collage.
| |
| | book.
|
| 9. Give everyone some colored M&M's and
| |
| | 13. Foster multi-cultural awareness by
|
| have children graph them. Alternately,
| |
| | having candies from different countries.
|
| have children classify the candy they
| |
| | I hope these ideas are useful and inspire
|
| bring to school and graph the different
| |
| | your own creative thinking. HAPPY
|
| kinds. Possible categories are
| |
| | HALLOWEEN!!
|
| chocolatey, nutty, soft, and hard.
| |
| | And remember...Reading is FUNdamental!
|
| 10. Look through newspaper ads and see
| |
| |
|
