It’s Halloween time, so it’s time to change things up! No more “Get it? Got it! Good!” when you need to get your students’ attention! We’ve come up with a list of fun, Halloween attention getters for the classroom!
Teacher: “Who you gonna call?”
Students: “Ghostbusters!”
Teacher: “Monster!”
Students: “Mash!”
Teacher: “Knock, knock!”
Students: “Trick or Treat!!”
Teacher: “Skeleton!”
Students: “Bones!”
Teacher: “Scare me!”
Students: “Boo!”
Teacher: “Pumpkin, pumpkin shining bright!”
Students: “Halloween’s a scary night!”
Teacher: “It’s not Santa Claus!”
Students: “It’s the Great Pumpkin!”
Teacher: “Vegan Zombie!”
Students: “Graaaaaaiiiiinnnnss!” (like how zombies say “brains”)
Teacher: “If you’ve got it…”
Students: “…haunt it!”
Teacher: “Boil, boil…!”
Students: “Toil and trouble!”
Teacher: “I feel cold!”
Students: “Goosebumps!”
If you’ve taught your class any fun Halloween poems, you might consider using lines from those also. For example, if you taught your class the popular “Five little pumpkins” poem, you could use a line and have the students respond with the following line. If you’re not familiar with that poem, you’re missing out! Here it is:
Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate.
The first one said, “Oh, my, it’s getting late!”
The second one said, “There are witches in the air!”
The third one said, “But we don’t care!”
The fourth one said, “Let’s run and run and run!”
The fifth one said, “It’s Halloween fun!”
Then woooooo, went the wind
And out went the light
And the five little pumpkins
Rolled out of sight!
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This year, I conducted “interviews” with my second grade class (ages 8-9). I gave them 5 simple questions to respond to. The questions were:
I absolutely loved this idea! It might work better with upper grades, since I don’t think younger kids have had enough exposure to memes to get as much out of this activity. 
I’m lame. I’ll just admit it. I usually forget to plan something cool for April Fool’s. I’m the one looking for a last-minute joke to play so I don’t expose myself as a lame-wad. So here are some of my favorite last minute April Fool’s Day pranks for teachers to play on their students:
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