Hallloween-A Learning Activity?

Sure...why not take a student's favorite holiday and turn it into a learning experience!  Halloween can be a great stepping tool to a way of fun learning.  Student's can learn about classify by using their candy.  They can write scary stories.  They can become fashion designers and create a one or a kind costume.  Just because this are not traditional ways to teach these are still all learning experiences that are authentic and help students take their new knowledge and apply it to a real world situation.  Use Halloween in your classroom and you could have great success.