One of the reasons "October" was created was to aid teachers of the lower elementary grades in their efforts to teach a unit using the themes of Halloween. A child's book emphasizing Halloween, with poems, customs, stories, and pages for creative writing, is contained herein. There is also an essay about Columbus Day which we celebrate on October 12. A series of worksheets have been developed for use in learning centers. They emphasize vocabulary and the making of compound words, inference, and creative writing. Recipes involving student participation and which are appropriate for Halloweed are indluded in this book. Also included are ideas for an October calendar, a number of bulletin board ideas that feature Halloween and atutumn, and fabric art ideas.

Make every day a special day in your classroom with the creative ideas in this book. Every day in the month of October is a special celebration of some kind: Fitness Day, Fire Prevention Day, Greek Mythology Day, Make-Believe Day, Great Pumpkin Day and many more. All 31 special celebrations include suggestions for making them a part of your regular curriculum: language arts, social studies, writing, math, science and health, music and drama, physical fitness, art, etc. Your students will look forward to every day of the school year when you make it a constant celebration. And they'll learn while they have fun! Included are fun patterns for writing assignments and art projects as well as lists of books that correlate with the topic for each day.

A compilation of All Hallow's Eve history, customs, beliefs, literature, games and music taken from original 19th and 20th century sources. This one of a kind anthology of vintage Halloween history, superstition, facts and fun brings together two complete classic volumes--The Book of Halloween (1919) and Games For Halloween (1912)--along with more than 40 articles, reminiscences, stories, poems, and even sheet music, all published between the 1840s and the early 1920s, and all revealing and reveling in the spirit of Halloween as it was understood and celebrated in Europe and America during the 19th and early 20th centuries. With more than 300 pages of text and nearly 100 vintage Halloween illustrations -- Publisher's description.

Celebrate special days and themes August to December with the creative ideas in this 320-page book--bulletin boards, teacher helps, reproducible student activities, resource lists, parents' letters and much, much more! Plus a CD-ROM (print books) or .zip file (eBooks) chock-full of clip art. A valuable resource to keep close at all times!

Build preschoolers' core knowledge of colors, counting, following directions, reading and more with seasonal crafts and activities such as: fingerplays, make-it yourself-books, dot-to-dots, action rhymes, patterns and lots more. Book reviews, snacks, bulletin board ideas, clip art and worksheets are included for fun throughout the year!

101 Social Studies Activities for Curious Kids is a unique collection of easy and enjoyable writing activities designed to stimulate social awareness, creative thinking and self-expression in children ages six and older. Embracing the author's "if it's fun, kids will do it" educational philosophy, this book lets children explore the fundamental nature of community by getting them to write about what they know best - themselves. Divided into five critical social science strands - Relationships, Rules and Responsibilities; Traditions and Celebrations; Days Gone By; My Community; and The Global Village - this book uses simple directions and descriptive written examples to lead children through 101 timeless activities that will help them to establish important connections between past, present and future; to develop a basic understanding of heritage and citizenship and to begin to decipher their role as social beings in the local community and society at large.

"Activities for All Seasons" provides activities developed around seasonal themes designed to reinforce basic skills for the Pre-K to Grade 3 student. Activities include reinforcement in comprehension, language arts, math, social studies, and science. Specific skills include creative writing, visual discrimination, handwriting, leaf identification, greater, less than, or equal to, the four seasons, vocabulary development, spelling, antonyms and synonyms, and who, what, when, where, and why.

This book was written to introduce interesting facts about people whose actions have influenced our lives and contributed to the way we think and live today. Creative writing lessons can accompany the study of each day, and children may be encouraged to write their own essays, poems, or plays.

This creative book in the popular Daily Discoveries series contains another month full of special days for students to celebrate in the classroom. They include: Reindeer Mania Day, Winter Weather Day, Human Rights Day, It's a Small World Day, and of course Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year's Eve Day. Use the activities in your regular curriculum for a shot of adrenalin in language arts, social studies, writing, math, science and health, music and drama, etc. Your students will eagerly look forward to each new day when you give them something to celebrate! Also included are reproducible patterns for writing assignments and art projects as well as lists of correlated books and bulletin board ideas.

It is Halloween, a day that used to be your favourite of the year.As a child, you counted down the days to Halloween, thrilled at the prospect of venturing out into the night in a monster's clothing and returning with a sack stuffed full with candy.As you grew through adolescence, your tastes gradually changed. You still lived in anticipation of Halloween, but you no longer cared much for its typical offerings. The costumes weren't real. The candy was too sweet.What you wanted was adventure, panic, black magic. You wanted to find yourself on a dark hilltop, shaking with fear as impossible shadows crept up the slope toward you. You wanted to see the dead sit up in their graves. You wanted to stumble through the fog trying to escape the clutches of a madman. You wanted to survive a nightmare...Death by Halloween is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' style interactive book for adults and mature teens. It features: Masterfully executed hyperlink navigation Over 100 choices Over 50 endings A gender-neutral protagonist Ghosts Ghouls Murderers Self-loathing Cannibals Demons Mutilation Scarecrows Specters Zombies Pie And much more! Please have a look at the sample to get a better idea of whether or not this book is right for you. Because this is an interactive book, the sample chapters will be out of order and not interactive. They will, nevertheless, give you a pretty good idea of what to expect.PLEASE NOTE: As mentioned above, this book has some fairly graphic scenes of violence and is intended for a somewhat mature audience.