We had a lot of fun with Halloween in homeschool this year. We spent the last week working on review using Halloween themed exercises. We covered parts of speech in language arts; multiplication, time, place value, comparing numbers, rounding and graphing in math; shape poetry and creative writing in writing; catapult construction and physics as well as a vampire bat study in science; Halloween history and traditions in history and social studies; and we read The Haunted Library: A Ghost in the Attic by Dori Hillstad Butler, Frankenstein by Ludworst Bemonster and Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex for reading.
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| Zoey using candy corns to represent the greater than/less than signs while comparing numbers. |
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Zoey's Shape Poem
We even saw a black cat while we were out Trick-or-Treating. |
For Halloween night, we decided to go Trick-or-Treating in our neighborhood. It was a great adventure. Zoey dressed up as a Pink Princess. She did her make up and everything. We went down a stretch that didn't have as many kids on it. Most of the people we visited were glad to have some one stop by.
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| Pretty Princess Zoey |
I really enjoyed our walk through the neighborhood. Everyone was really nice too. We got to check out all of the awesome decorations. One house had a fog machine that flooded out onto the street making it even more spooky that the natural clouds were already doing. We even got invited in for a beer at one point. It was great to see everyone out and making local connections to celebrate the occasion.
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| Fog machine rolling out onto the street |
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| There were some great decorations while we were out. |
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| A black cat crossed our path. |
The next day, we collected data from our Halloween candy run. It was great to turn such a fun event into a learning opportunity. Especially when we got to taste test all the candy for science!
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| Our Halloween candy data collection |
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| Zoey graphed the results for a visual representation |
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| Then we got to test each candy and decide our favorites |
It was a great Halloween and we covered a lot in our homeschooling lessons in the process. I hope you also had a great celebration!
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