![]() May you all have a safe and happy Halloween. Check out Lori Gracey’s blog “The Perfect Music to Read By”for more details. If you are a Harry Potter fan, here is the mixer list for you. Want to add music to an activity, silent reading or writing time, or while taking on breakouts? Ambient Mixer is the place to get 57,000 free sound track mixes. According to the email I just received, Novel Effect is announcing, “FAB-BOO-LOUS New Releases) when it comes to the creepy and the crawly literature. The app contains music and sounds for tons of children’s books and poems. The Novel Effect app is available in the iOS App store or Google Play. ![]() Instead, I gave each student a multiple choice answer sheet with four options with the occasional silly answer blended in for some humor. In my opinion, there is nothing more frustrating than trying to answer trivia questions if you have no clue – very discouraging. This has a little bit of a twist to your typical trivia challenge. Another game we played was a Halloween Trivia Challenge. My students had pen and paper to guess the costumes. The first, Name That Costume, is where I read out loud a list of clothing articles and props to my class. Now this isn’t a physical key, like the lock key included in the kit. ![]() In order to use the Breakout EDU Cipher, players will need to find the Cipher Key. I wanted to share a couple more activities I played back in the day with my elementary students. Cipher & Dice The Breakout EDU Cipher Disc, with room for two concentric rings (an inner ring and an outer ring), gives players an opportunity to crack the code and translate secret messages. This could easily be incorporated in an upper elementary or middle school language arts class. But oh what a pain to take them all down for the standardized writing test.Ĭheck out a Halloween Synonyms Challenge to boost your spooky letter combinations (just another way to say “words”). ![]() I still remember pinning word wheels to my classroom ceiling (back in the pre-Google years!) so my students had access to synonyms. When teaching writing to my fourth graders, we talked about overused words like “pretty,” “run,” “eat,” and “walk” that can be spiffed up. ![]()
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