Halloween Learning

 Students entered a dark classroom on Halloween.  The "Undertaker" music played in the background and candles flickered under two headstones at the front of the room.  Sadly, we had a couple words come to an untimely end in our writing.  The two words have died from extreme over use.  Said is dead and fun is done. We said our good-byes and tried to think of what to do next.  The students were able to brainstorm tons of words to use instead!

Our writing is really going to be filled with great word choice in the future.  After we brainstormed as a class, the students added the dead word synonyms to their writing journals.  We also played a game called spin a quotation.  Students had to spin for one of our said synonyms and then for a character.  Last, they made up a quotation and put in proper punctuation.  They worked so hard.

One of our fabulous parents made the cutest "make-a-monster" kits for every child. However, during lunch we had a Zombie take-over and our awesome kits were locked up.  The students had to solve all sorts of rounding and multi digit addition and subtraction problems to find out the combination to the lock box. 

      

 Just in time, the students were able to break out! Phew! The last activity of the day dealt with making a monster, but we didn't use our new kits.  We used our knowledge from our science unit on genetics.  We looked at a fictional phenotype of two monsters.  Then, we were given the genotype of three traits: fur color, teeth shape, and eye placement.  The students took the genotypes of the parents monsters and used a Punnet square to figure out the possible genotypes of their offspring.  Finally, the students picked a possible genotype for the traits and then illustrated the phenotype. So smart!  Check out your child's SeeSaw journal to see their excellent work.

The best part of Halloween was the kids! It was a blast to dress up for Halloween this year.  The costumes were terrific.  Here are just a few.  Happy Halloween.