Playlist: October
Halloween Worksheets
Crosswords, image analysis, and writing prompts for Halloween!
Words Within Words: CORNMAZE
How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?
Words Within Words: COBWEB
How many words can you find within COBWEB?
Halloween Emoji Story 🎃
Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?
Words Within Words: SCARECROW
How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?
Squiggles Introduction
What do you see in this squiggle?
How Many Will There Be? Squares in Squares
Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.
Microchess (Chess Variant)
What if we played chess on a board that’s only 4×5?
Writing About Art: The Scream
Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.
SCAMPER: Scaffolding Creativity
Asking students to “think creatively” won’t get you far. They won’t know how to start, they’ll get stuck with simple ideas, or they’ll just go completely wild. SCAMPER is a tool for scaffolding the process of creativity.
What’s In My Brain: Trapezoids or Not?
Which are trapezoids and which are not?
Studying and Remixing “The Raven”
Ready to push kids beyond the boring, old ABAB rhyme scheme and into something a bit more complex?
Depth and Complexity: 👓 Multiple Perspectives
Every topic looks different depending on who’s looking. This prompt teaches students to see through someone else’s eyes.
The Game of 100
Who can get to 100 first in this simple, but delightful, math game?