By the end of 6th grade, a student who reads 20 minutes each night will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days. By the end of 6th grade, a student who reads 5 minutes each night will have read the equivalent of only 12 whole school days. Which do you think will have a better vocabulary? Which do you expect will be more successful in life?
Click to see the handout: reading 20 min each night
Pumpkins are so iconic of Halloween that you can’t help trying to squeeze them into your lessons whenever you can. This kindergarten teacher had the students sponge paint paper bags orange, stuff them with newspaper and make a pumpkin patch on their bulletin board. For older (yet still young) kids, you could write adjectives that describe pumpkins on the bag after it’s painted to integrate some language study.
When I saw this the other day in a third grade classroom, I just had to snap a photo. What a cute idea to make a Frankenstein in the style of Pablo Picasso! After looking at examples of Picasso’s work, students used construction paper, scissors and glue to create their own version of Frankenstein. Awesome!
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This one’s a fun Halloween writing project… We talked about transition words first, and then specifically sequencing words. Then each student wrote about the steps to carving a pumpkin. Then students made the classic construction paper jack-o-lantern during art time to go with the finished writing project. Simple, yet festive!
Here’s a page for this idea (but smaller and less time consuming if you have kids just draw a pumpkin). Click here for the PDF: How to carve a pumpkin PDF
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I recently saw this fun Halloween writing project. Students were to write a letter to Mr. Scarecrow from the view of a pumpkin who never gets chosen when kids come to pick out their pumpkins. Some students wrote about bribing the scarecrow to help them get chosen and others simply wrote a letter of lamentation. Hilarious! This class used a pattern for their scarecrows, but you could easily have students draw their own Mr. Scarecrow on white paper instead. Love it!
This fun Halloween coloring page uses simple addition, subtraction and multiplication. Depending on the answer of the math question, they color each section of the picture a different color. Click here for the printable PDF: Halloween math fact coloring page Happy Halloween!
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This one can be used for spelling or vocabulary words. Have the students write their words (up to 10) on any line. Then color each of the Wordpillar’s sections according to the part of speech of the word they’ve written. To get this worksheet, right click on the worksheet and select “save image as” so it will save to your computer and you can choose what size to print it. Enjoy!
I started having fun with this ‘pillar and did a few more worksheets. Right click, choose “save image as” and save it to your computer so you can resize and print it later. Enjoy!
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