Is it a trick or a treat?

Facilitator(s): Peggy Reimers (@preimers) | https://ly.tcea.org/TorT

Session Description

Come have a little Halloween fun and get some handy tricks for using classroom tech and web tools that will surely be a treat for you and your students. Join us, if you dare!

You have a spooky-ooky choice today !

Participate in activities
Spend the time time checking out resources

Using FOUND objects

spell out BOO!

Post to the Padlet

the link: https://padlet.com/preimers/by8f2yq7xs9ej5hs

Canva Presentation

Use the premade Halloween Idioms

3 Choices of Halloween Fun with Google Forms

Halloween Synonyms Challenge - Level 1

Halloween Synonyms Challenge - Level 2

Halloween Adjective Challenge

Halloween

Would you Rather?

Slide deck

Name that costume

A list of 21 costumes. This can be a listening activity or a pen/paper activity. Individual or Group Project - the sky is the limit

A sampling:

1. black pointy hat, black cape, broom an an ugly wart

2. eye patch, gold chains, sword and stuffed parrot

3. bell bottoms, tie-dyed shirt, sandals and love beads

Make a copy here.

SPotify Playlists by Josie Bensko

Classroom-safe playlists on Spotify. NOT JUST HALLOWEEN

Curated by Middle school teacher, Josie Bensko

Twitter: https://twitter.com/maniacsinthemid

Resource

Halloween Quizizz Escape Room by Kyle Niemis

Kyle Niemis created Escape Rooms with Quizizz - interesting twist on breakouts.

Link

https://twitter.com/KyleNiemis

5 Fun Halloween Activities for your classroom

Halloween Math Problem Solving
Inferences and Predictions with The Witch's Broom
Pumpkin Head Writing
Candy Corn STEM Activity
Halloween Unlock the Box Mystery (TPT)

Build Candy Corn Towers

Students work in groups to plan their towers. Then, they will have 15 minutes to build their creations. A pumpkin candy needs to be able to sit on top of the tower.

Scattegory challenge by Amanda Sandoval

Rules: RULES: You will work together as a group. Your group must attempt to think of and write down (whiteboard), a word or term that fits the category and starts with the letters specified. Any number of words in the answer is allowed, as long as the first word starts with the correct letter. RING THE BELL when your group is done.

example: round 1

Category: Industrialization or Urbanization Letters: F A L L

Category: Sweets Letters: C A N D Y

Make a copy of the Google Slide deck

Donnie Piercey and Dictionary Day

Mr. Donnie Piercey is a teacher in Lexington, Kentucky. I love that he has his fifth-graders dress up around Halloween as a difficult dictionary word. Can you match the words below to students in the photo?

Incognito
Zegal
Disheveled
Memorandum
Fortuitous
Lethargic
Lackadaisical
Brawny
Sagacious

Check out Donnie's Dictionary Day parent letter here for the details and some tips on how to put an educational twist on Halloween costumes. Also, you should follow him on Twitter! He’s the 2021 Kentucky Teacher of the Year and he is always tweeting good stuff.

Halloween Activities (Seesaw) With Traci Piltz

Traci Piltz on Twitter

https://twitter.com/TraciPiltz

Blog

https://mrspiltzkindergarten.blogspot.com/

Resource

5 Hands-on Halloween Ideas for English Class

Halloween Writing Prompts
Short Stories and Books
Spooky Short Stories
Descriptive Writing
Public Speaking Skills (debates
Two-line Ghost Stories

Resource

My Favorite - #5

Discussion topic #1: Are high school students too old for trick or treating?

Discussion topic #2: Should schools be allowed to celebrate Halloween?

Discussion topic #3: Are costumes necessary when trick or treating?

Discussion topic #4: Should trick or treating be an all-day event?

Discussion topic #5: Should non-sugary candy be mandatory on Halloween?

Appreciation Gift

I used Jelly Belly beans to fill up plastic syringes for the TCEA Conference for Educational Coaches 2022.

Plastic syringes

Wal-mart 24 for $10.99

Oriental Trading 12 for $19.99

Hey CEC Presenter

You're one huge dose of awesome?

Thank you for

presenting at CEC!

TCEA

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I have also used test tubes with jelly beans and other candies. I labeled them with funny names.

The List

Digital Pumpkin Carving

John R. Sowash

Template

Carve a Digital Pumpkin using Google Slides

Blog

Eric Curts

Template

Build a Jack-O-Lantern with Google Slides

Blog

Peggy Reimers

Template

Pumpkin Building

Blog

And More Eric Curts

Google Slides - Build a Jack-O-Lantern

2.Google Docs - Rebus Stories with Google Docs Emojis

3. Google Drawings - Drag and Drop Poetry

4. Google Sheets - Skittles & Sheets Math Activities

Website

CHatterpix

Carly & Adam Halloween Monster STEAM Freebie Writing Activity

Draw a monster

Write a monster story

Animate the monster with the free Chatterpix app

Website

For your lil' itty bittys

Play 4 Corners

Print off 4 Halloween symbols and place one in each corner of the room. Students move to a corner. If the "Caller" calls out the ghost - those students sit down. Students move to a new corner. The "Caller" calls out another corner. Those students sit down. Repeat until only one student is standing.