Lesson Plan

Halloween Lesson Plan: Littles Edition

Float a pumpkin, count its seeds and meet the real animals behind the spooky ones.

This is the Littles Edition of Halloween: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades K-3. Every day follows the same rhythm: Reading on Monday, Writing and Words on Tuesday, Science and Math on Wednesday, a Hands-on Project on Thursday, and Show and Tell on Friday.

The big question: Why does a pumpkin float, and what is really inside it?

The Week

• Mon: Pumpkin Jack Read-Aloud (Reading) • Tue: If My Pumpkin Could Talk (Writing & Words) • Wed: Sink, Float and Count (Science & Math) • Thu: Cotton Swab Skeleton (Hands-on Project) • Fri: Costume Parade Show (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of Halloween has Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8) in one file, so siblings or a mixed classroom can study the same topic together.

Perfect for homeschool families, grade K-3 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Littles (grades K-3), about 30 to 45 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: Sink, Float and Count
• Sequence cards (The Pumpkin Life Cycle) and a cut-and-sort page (Night Animal or Day Animal?)
• Writing page: If My Pumpkin Could Talk
• Hands-on project: Cotton Swab Skeleton
• Word search, maze, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 5 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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