Halloween is a fantastic way to get your students enthusiastic about writing! So I have created a few things that you can use to motivate your young writers this Halloween. You can get them writing spooky stories, creating recipes for a witch's brew, listing safety hints for trick or treating, planning Halloween parties or even listing facts and opinions about Halloween! Sometimes all they need is a sentence starter to get their imaginations firing! Halloween Writing Prompts Quilt Here is a great way to get kids writing about … [Read more...]
Halloween Literacy Activities
Let's have some fun with Halloween words. These Halloween literacy activities will have your little monsters engaged while they play around with word skills. Here is a really simple activity that will challenge their spelling skills and word skills. Just list some Halloween words with the first and last letter missing. Then ask students to work out the words. Shorter words are the hardest ones to work out. Halloween Literacy Puzzles FREEBIE If you want more Halloween literacy activities, I also have a great freebie with 2 Halloween … [Read more...]
Halloween Math Games
Halloween gives us the opportunity to add a huge dose of fun to math lessons. There are lots of simple Halloween math games and activities that you can create with a Halloween theme and I also have loads of printable Halloween math games and activities. BOO The games above are really simple games that you can create using popsicle sticks and cups. These games help students review their addition facts or multiplication facts or other facts if you prefer. You might already be familiar with the game Kaboom. Well Boo is just a … [Read more...]
Halloween Writing Prompts FREEBIE
Children love spooky stories and these spooky story starters are sure to get them keen to create their own spooky stories to share. The 7 Spooky Story Starters can be printed as is or you can print them, cut around the edge then display as a chart. Here are a few of the spooky story starters which look really great displayed on black card or paper. You can download all 7 Spooky Story Starters from my Teachers Pay Teachers store now at - Halloween Writing Prompts Spooky Story Starters. Looking for more ideas for Halloween … [Read more...]
Halloween Writing Quilt
Halloween is a great motivator in the classroom. These writing prompts will get students keen to write and will also give you a great Halloween display that is all their work! The Halloween Writing Prompts Quilt has 7 different writing prompts and each one comes in two different formats - four squares to a page and 2 squares to a page. If you would like them to be larger just enlarge them on a copier. The 7 different writing prompts are - If I Were a Ghost I Would … Haunted House Acrostic Poem Witch’s Brew Recipe On … [Read more...]
Halloween Math Friends
Halloween is getting closer so you might like to make a few friends - Halloween Math Friends that is! These Halloween Math Strips are sooooooo CUTE! Students fill in the strip, color the friends and cut out. These make a great Halloween display for the classroom! There are also colored versions so you can laminate them and have students use them again and again. The Halloween Math Friends strips include - 2 Digit Number Halloween Friends Strips 3 Digit Number Halloween Friends Strips 4 Digit Number Halloween Friends … [Read more...]