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1. Bring Learning to Life! Think: your spiders, pumpkins, leaves, haunted houses, ghosts, and anything across the curriculum! Students can take a picture of their writing and/or construction paper creation (or make a digital one) and make the still image come to life. The "characters" can : read aloud a poem, discuss its characteristics, share adjectives to describe itself, retell a story from its point of view, interact with the viewer and ask questions to engage him/her on a quest, and so much more. These can make your bulletin boards and displays interactive too!
Other ideas:
Synonym Spiders
The Web of Writing
Pumpkin Patch Personalities
Ghastly Ghosts
Spooky Sentences
Monster Math
Haunted ReadBox (link to student-created video reviews of spooky stories)
Boo-tiful Books
Scare Up _____.....(a good book, spooky writing, fall fun.....)
Trick or Treat, ____ is Neat (geometry, reading, writing, astronomy....)
Haunted House for Sale (Persuasive Writing)
Brewing Up _____ (Magnificent Math, Spectacular Spelling, Incredible Idioms)
Howling Hypotheses (science)
Fang-tastic Figurative Language
Ve Vant to Share our Batty Vriting Vith You
Bring these to life with:
Camera app
(use a QR Code or Aurasma on image)
(use a QR Code or Aurasma on image)
Transform these into Digital StoryTelling:
Engage your students and empower their voice by providing opportunities for them to create and publish their work for a larger audience! Most importantly, give students options ~ let them choose how they want to produce their writing:
- MyStoryBook (app) Students create a book with options for text, audio, images and drawings.
- StoryBird (website / use computers)
- 30 Hands - (app) Produce an audio tale
- Chatterpix - (app) Fall Poem or Pumpkin Poem (short, 30 second voice recording)
- BuildYourselfWild (website) Creative writing opportunity to go with their "Wild Self".
- Use any of the above options for students to collaborate on a story together.
- GoogleApps - Students can collaborate on a shared Document or presentation
- Share their creations on a blog for a larger audience.
- many more ways..........
2. Pumpkin Patch Tales : A fun twist to engage your students in writing. Students color the pumpkin-theme sheet from colAR (AR stands for Augmented Reality) and write a story to go along with it. Put their tales on display in the classroom or low-bulletin board. Students can read one another's' tales and, with the colAR app open, watch the pumpkins come to life and dance around the "paper" along to music. Check out CoolKatTeacher's awesome post with resources and more information about Augmented Reality!
3. Interactive Bulletin Boards: This is where QR Codes and Augmented Reality can really come into play. You don't have to have a "bulletin board" either. A spot in the room, a tub, a sheet of paper, or any object in the room can house the interactive activity.
- Halloween / Fall Stories Listening Center
- Scavenger Hunt
- Math POD or other station on any concept (make it a Math Monsters theme for the season)
- Fall Fact Word of the Week/Day : Students scan a QR Code of the word and use the iPad to discover and share facts about the word.
- Any bulletin boards, student display, or activity shared throughout this post (or already in your room) can become "interactive" and enhance student learning.
4. Responding to Reading
- Spookley the Square Pumpkin - After reading the story, use Camera on iPad to take pictures around the building of shapes (groups can be responsible for a specific shape) and create a digital story.
- Room on the Broom OR any story: Use 30 Hands or MyStory to create an illustrated retelling, sequencing, or summary of the story.
- Switch up you Literacy Menu for the month and incorporate Fall/Halloween apptivities.
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