Halloween

On Halloween I would do all the real academic lessons in the morning and then in the afternoon I would have fun things for the children to do. On Halloween we usually have a costume parade around the school so this lesson plan is for the afternoon after the parade. Since it is a fun holiday I want to make the afternoon fun so here are some of the things we would do at a class. After the parade we would come back to the room and it would be a Halloween party some of the class mothers will be there helping out. We would pass around candy.

Then to start some activities one thing we would do would require a pumpkin. It would be based on estimation. Every children would have a worksheet I made up for them with "How many seeds, how much does it weight, and how many inches around it is." Each child puts down what they think and then we will weight it, count the seeds, and measure it. This is a fun math lesson on estimation for the children and they will have no idea they are learning. For the child who guessed right or the child who guessed the closest to each question wins a prize.


After the pumpkin measuring I would have a few different fun worksheets for the the children to do like coloring pages, word searches, and unscrambling words.

Just for fun I would read them two halloween books before they left for the day to go trick or treating. I would read them "The Biggest Pumpkin Ever" by Steve Kroll and "In the Haunted House" by Eve Bunting

"May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright

Of soft and golden hue

Pierce through the future's veil and show

What fate now holds for you."

-Author Unknown