Holidays+-+October

Halloween Candy Sorting Activity
Have the kids count their candy and use a tally sheet. Once back at school, transfer the tallies to the graph and answer the questions from reading the graph. Entered by: Caryl D.

Halloween Story Starters
Using the 20 various story starters on the server. Students enter one sentence to the story starter. Once the sentence is added, students stand and move to another computer to read the story and then add on a sentence to the story. The entire time they are thinking of the elements of a story. By the time they are done, they will have visited about 6 different computers to add onto 6 different stories. They are very creative and fun. Once they are complete students can draw pictures to illustrate the stories. Entered by: Caryl D.

Pumpkin Seed Project
Check out the details at http://www.jenuinetech.com/Projects/ps09/ps2009info.htm This online collaborative activity is a great way to connect with other classes and compare data about pumpkins. With you pumpkin you can count, compare, create and so much more. Look at the activities page for other curricular connections. Please let me know if I can help you with this project. It is a fun one! Entered by: Caryl D.

Getting to Know My Pumpkin
This is an activity that would involve circumference, prediction, venn diagramming, writing with details and diagramming. -entered by Rachel