| With more and more Halloween | | | | 10. Look through newspaper ads and see |
| celebrations taking place in the | | | | what you would buy if you had $20. If |
| classroom, at home parties, or at | | | | your children are old enough, have them |
| community events, here are some | | | | calculate the tax for your area. |
| cross-curricular Halloween activities | | | | 11. Review following directions, |
| for you to enjoy. | | | | measurement, health, and safety by |
| 1. Read a Halloween poem or song and | | | | making Halloween cupcakes, a cake, or |
| find rhyming words, similes, metaphors, | | | | cookies. Use Halloween-related cutters, |
| nouns, verbs, onomatopoeia, and so on. | | | | food coloring for frosting, and small |
| 2. Find Halloween-related words in the | | | | candies as decorations. Of course, |
| dictionary by using guide words. Divide | | | | adults should 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 | | | | out.b. Roast the pumpkin seeds and have |
| a 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 | | | | pieces for the principal and others in |
| songs 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 |
| different print media to make cards or a | | | | children write a caption for each one |
| collage. | | | | and make a 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 |
| bring to school and graph the different | | | | inspire your own creative thinking. |
| kinds. Possible categories are | | | | HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! |
| chocolatey, nutty, soft, and hard. | | | | And remember...Reading is FUNdamental! |