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Jack O’ Lantern, Jack O’ Lantern

Halloween is an exciting time for young children. Capitalize on their excitement while reinforcing color identification, holiday symbols, and language arts skills with this lesson built on the much-loved book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.!

Haunting Music

In this lesson about music inspired by the spooky and bizarre, students will learn about orchestra “program music” by exploring the works of Hector Berlioz and Camille Saint-Saëns. Students will learn about Symphonie Fantastique and Danse Macabre, identify and analyze the musical terms and concepts in each piece, and then write a short story and create a class mural based on their listening experiences.

Haunted House

To have children partake in a fun and active Halloween activity.

Harriet’s Halloween Sort

This is a small group instructional activity in which students sort, classify and tell about what characteristics they sort individually wrapped candy.

Halloween Story with Portrayal Movement

To imitate action words in the story. To engage in cumulative movement patterns.