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Halloween Activities: Grades 3rd-6th
Planning Halloween curriculum doesn't have to be scary! Check out a set of worksheets that include reading excerpts, word problems, grammar activities, and engaging Halloween trivia that is perfect for your October lesson planning.
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Math Lesson Plan: Halloween Candy Counting
Post-Halloween learners bring in candy treats to use for counting practice. They estimate how full a bowl of candy will get when there are 100 and 200 pieces of candy counted and put in it. They take turns counting to 100 and 200;...
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Halloween Counting
In this Halloween math worksheet, students count the number of black cats pictured on the worksheet and circle the number 13, 14, or 15 as the appropriate number of cats shown.
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Multiplication Mysteries
Arithmetic apprentices practice problem solving and multiplication with a lift-the-flap pair of reproducibles. In this Halloween mathematics instructional activity, math monsters practice multiplication by making candy corn calculations....
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Halloween Count
In this Halloween math worksheet, students count the number of Halloween images and then circle the correct number for the total images in the 4 boxes.
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Halloween Math-Subtraction
In this Halloween subtraction worksheet, students complete 9 Halloween story subtraction problems that use numbers 1-4 only. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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First Grade Online Halloween Math Problems
As part of an activity to identify odd and even numbers, learners use monsters to explore this concept. This would be a great learning exercise to use before Halloween in a kindergarten or first grade classroom. There are five questions.
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My Pumpkin Story
Have young pumpkin carvers use technology to create a unique pumpkin face and write a short story about the special characteristics of their pumpkin.
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Halloween – Same Worksheet
In this visual discrimination worksheet, students examine 3 sets of 3 Halloween pictures each and identify the 2 picture in each set that are alike.
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Halloween Pumpkin Dot-To-Dot, 1-15
In this dot-to-dot worksheet, students connect dots from numbers 1-15 to create a Halloween pumpkin picture. A reference website is given for additional activities.
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Trick or Treat: G
In this Halloween math worksheet, students put a number in the square and then paste the correct amount of candies on the bag.
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Predicting Pumpkins
If you want more pumpkin seeds, you should get a bigger pumpkin—right? Young harvesters use estimation skills to make a hypothesis about how many seeds they will find in a pumpkin before examining the real number inside.
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Eric Carle Author Study
Learn all about Eric Carle, find out about his famous caterpillar, and try out related art, science, writing, math, and social studies activities. The resource comes with plenty of materials to support your instruction.
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Halloween Candy Sort
Learners use their Halloween candy to practice sorting and classifying. They compete a Venn diagram comparing their candy wrappers. They develop ways as a class to catorgize the candy in different ways.
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Monsters
In this comparing sizes, Halloween worksheet, learners answer 4 multiple choice questions where they identify the tallest, shortest, biggest, and smallest monsters.
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How Many Cats
In this Halloween counting worksheet, students answer 9 multiple choice questions where they count the number of black cats and circle the correct number.
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Fun With Sorting and Classifying
Using a variety of activities, kindergartners explore sorting and classification. Learners engage in an online sorting activity, read books involving classification, and create their own class book. This is a marvelousway to explore this...
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Harriet's Halloween Sort
Students listen to the book, Harriet's Halloween Candy, and discuss the many ways Harriet sorted the candy from her trick-or-treat bag. They sort and classify individually wrapped candy.
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Halloween Counting Worksheet
In this Halloween counting worksheet, students follow directions and circle a given number of Halloween related objects in sets. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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How Much Is A Million
Help young learners visualize the concept of "a million." To convey concepts of numeration and literacy, they will listen to the book How Much is a Million? by David Schwartz. They should be able to make self-to-text connections....
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How Many Pumpkins?
In this Halloween counting worksheet, students count the number of pumpkins in each set. Students then circle the number equals the pumpkin count.
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The Magic Pot
The Magic Pot by Patricia Coombs is the theme of this multidisciplinary lesson plan. Early readers first take part in a read aloud and grand conversation about the story's details. Then, they get to work practicing their skills in...
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Spider Match
In this math activity, students count spiders in a group and draw a line from each group of spiders to the matching numeral. Numbers are from 1 to 5.
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Witches Brew
Students reinforce AB patterns taught in the classroom and practice locomotor movements. They cut out and laminate 20 of each of the following Halloween items: bats, ghosts, Frankenstein faces, spiders, Jack-O¿¿¿-Lanterns, witches...