As the magic of October swirls around our classrooms, why not treat your students with some Halloween math games that are both engaging and educational? These no-prep, delightfully themed resources make math practice as thrilling as a haunted house—perfect for math centers, fast finishers, homework, tutoring or October math celebrations. Below, I’ve shared our Halloween math games for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade—so whether you’re teaching one grade or planning across multiple levels, you’ll find a perfect fit for your classroom. … [Read more...]
Halloween Writing Prompts
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...]
