Celebrating Halloween with Our Students

Celebrating Halloween with our students can we incredibly fun yet instructional., instructional yet fun! There are plenty of activities that teachers can conduct in their classroom to make this a day of interaction and exciting learning, not to mention the fact that we all need a little time to celebrate and do things a little different, especially this year!

These activities can be integrated within language arts, writing, spelling, math, science, and social studies. For example: Language Arts can involve read aloud of Halloween books. You can head to the nearest bookstore and find your pick because they have so many to choose from. After that you can ask students to write in response to the book read aloud. Spelling can involve the study and manipulation of words related to the celebration such as: Halloween, celebration, pumpkins, jack o lanterns, candy, trick, treat, costume, parade, festival, etc.

During Social Studies teachers can teach students about the origins of Halloween; where and how did it start and how it has evolved with time. This can be accompanied by graphic organizers, task cards or responding to the learning in any other way you’d like.

Math can involve center/station activities in different topics all Halloween themed. There are so many wonderful resources both paper/ manipulative as well as digital. For digital stations you can use google classroom resources, boom cards, or pdf’s that you can upload to Seesaw.

Science can involve pumpkin investigations!!! These can include drawings, labeling, life cycle, measuring, tasting, graphing, etc.

And, after all that… time to celebrate in the classroom!!!!! During this time, I like to...