Sometimes kids in older grades genuinely love to be scared, but I’m just afraid of what I don’t know – I don’t want to traumatize anyone in my classroom without realizing it, and I certainly don’t want any nasty phone calls from parents because of the books I’ve chosen.Īnd by the way, I love to use read alouds all the way up to 6 th grade because even if the story seems a little young for the students, you can instead invite your students into conversations about the author’s craft and storytelling, and how the author and illustrator work together to weave another world and make a story real and engaging and entertaining for their audience. I much prefer Halloween books that are on the silly side rather than the scary side, so you’re going to find that the selections I have here are more designed to make fun of being scared, rather than to instill fear in kids. So, I’ll tell you more about that project after I share some of my favorite Halloween books with you. You can adapt this project to any grade and you can either choose to use Halloween-themed books like the ones I’m going to share with you today, or you can use ANY books or stories that you are currently working on with your students. Therefore, today, I’m going to share not only 10 of my very favorite books for Halloween, but I’m also going to share a fantastic and super fun Glow-in-the-Dark Haunted House Literacy Project that you can do with your own students, whether you are teaching 1 st or 5 th grade, that your students are going to absolutely love! So, dressing up and Halloween are in my blood, so I LOVED doing special projects with my students around Halloween. ![]() She’s really amazing at creating creative costumes, and I still think it’s hilarious that she went on national TV dressed as a bag of garbage… When we were in Los Angeles, we went to a place called Game Show Alley where they record all of the game shows, and my mom actually got on the show, “Let’s Make a Deal,” and won a car dressed as a bag of garbage – a costume she just made up on the spot in the parking lot with a huge black trash bag and a bunch of newspapers. We were living in Saskatchewan, Canada, at the time, so California seemed REALLY exotic to me, and that’s probably why I decided I really wanted to live there when I got older! In fact, when I was only 12 years old, our family went on a trip to California. She literally can make an entire costume up from nothing! I n our house, we had this giant “Tickle Trunk” in our basement that was filled with all sorts of dress-up stuff and odds and ends, and my mom is one of the most creative people I know. However, the fun of Halloween is still alive and well in childhood, and there’s just something super fun about getting to dress up to be someone or something completely different than real life for one night of the year. It kind of makes me sad because I have so many fond memories of Halloween growing up, but I do understand how careful schools need to be these days with all of the blood and gore and bloody axes in the head and all the rest of it that unfortunately sometimes shows up at those school parties. I absolutely LOVE Halloween, even though I know that a lot of schools are banning Halloween parties like we used to have when I was in school. Listen to this episode by clicking the play bar below: Make sure to check out our Halloween inspired tinker tray.Best halloween books halloween seasonal activities Or you can bring easy science to a group of kids! We find a ton of value in cheap science activities and experiments. Science starts early, and you can be a part of that with setting up science at home with everyday materials. ![]() ![]() Kids love checking things out with magnifying glasses, creating chemical reactions with kitchen ingredients, and of course exploring stored energy! Check out 100 genius STEM projects to get started any time of the year including the other “big” days. Kids are curious and always looking to explore, discover, check out, and experiment to find out why things do what they do, move like they move, or change like they change! Indoors or outdoors, science is definitely amazing! Holidays or special occasions just make science all the more fun to try!
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