Halloween literacy activities are great for the month of October. This adorable book companion is based on the book Bone Soup
by Cambria Evans. It includes games and writing activities that are sure to scare up some great writing with your students!
Bone Soup
Bone Soup is a story is about a little goblin who visits a spooky town. He tricks everyone into giving up all their goodies (eyeballs, toenail clippings, bones, etc) to make his soup.
It's a great book for teaching story structure and also creative Halloween writing! What kid doesn't like a book about eyeballs and toenail clippings?
Before the students came into the room, I created a spooky atmosphere with some Halloween toys and spiderwebs! When I was ready to start the lesson, I put on my witches hat and read the story in my creepiest witches voice.
Halloween Shared Writing
After reading the story, we worked together to create a chart of things that I should put in my Bone Soup. We used the shared writing technique where children helped create this chart. I told my firsties that I wanted to make Bone Soup and asked them what I should put in it. They helped me come up with all sorts of creepy ideas!
Next, it was time to create our own Bone Soup recipe. We practiced procedural writing using the temporal words first, next, then and last.
Independent Writing Activity
Finally I gave the students this template to create their own Bone Soup recipe. The students each had a turn at reaching into my cauldron and choosing some creepy ingredients! They made a cauldron craft and completed their own recipe. They made sure to use adjectives in their recipe.
Halloween Centers
I put their recipes on display and made it into a mini Halloween literacy center for the rest of the week. My class could visit it during center time and create Magic Potions, write in our potion book or play some other spooky math and literacy games!
Bone Soup Literacy and Math Unit
If you'd like to do these activities with your students, take a look at this Bone Soup Halloween Unit. Your kids are sure to have a spook-tacular time with all of these fun Halloween literacy activities and math activities.
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Thanks Kathryn!