Featured October Freebies
October Blog Posts
Teaching Fire Safety
October is National Fire Prevention Month, making it the perfect time to teach fire safety at any grade level. Check out these free teaching resources that will spark enthusiasm about fire safety! Use these tools to make fire safety engaging and relevant for older students, too.
The Great Chicago Fire
Check out these free upper elementary resources for Fire Prevention Week! Teaching kids about the great Chicago fire is a super way to integrate fire safety and prevention lessons into the social studies curriculum!
Pumpkin Seed Multiplication
Pumpkin Seed Multiplication is a FREE partner activity that uses pumpkin seeds to help kids understand the relationship between addition and multiplication.
Book Character Day
Great alternative to the traditional Halloween party that’s educational and aligned with Common Core Reading Standards! Students dress up in costumes as their favorite book characters and participate in literacy activities to explore character traits.
Pumpkin Predictions - Measurement Fun!
Pumpkin Predictions is a perfect fall-themed activity for upper elementary students because it’s not a Halloween activity, but it seems like one! The lesson is actually a great math review since it involves estimation and hands-on measurement.
Do Something Nice Day (October 5th)
Did you know that October 5th is Do Something Nice Day? What a great opportunity to focus on positive character development and the importance of being kind to others! Download this freebie to use on October 5th or any day of the year!
Free Halloween Word Work - Seek & Spell Fun!
Upper elementary students still need practice with spelling patterns and word-building skills like roots, prefixes, and suffixes, but there’s often little time for focused instruction. Fortunately, there’s a fun activity for building spelling skills that your kids will love so much they won’t even realize it’s a spelling assignment! In fact, they will BEG to play it!
Fall Math Word Puzzlers
Download these free Fall Math Puzzler word problem worksheets and learn how to implement a highly-effective daily problem solving program in your classroom
6 Reasons to Teach Poetry in the Fall
Fall is the perfect season to introduce poetry in your classroom. In this post, I share six compelling reasons to teach poetry during autumn, showing how it helps students become stronger writers, discover their own voices, and find inspiration in the colors and changes of the season.
OctoberActivities for Upper Elementary
October Activities is a 34-page packet that’s loaded with over a dozen engaging learning activities for upper elementary students. Each activity comes with directions and printables to make them quick and easy to use. You’ll find several fire safety activities, a literature-based lesson about Christopher Columbus, a pumpkin predictions measurement activity, a jack-o-lantern science demonstration, and several Halloween-themed lessons.
Featured Activities in this Resource
(Click on each item below to preview.)
Fire Safety Talk Show
Christopher Columbus - Fact or Fiction?
Christopher Columbus Character Map
Halloween Plot Point Partner Activity
Halloween Word Challenge
Spooktacular Story Board
Jack-o-Lantern Science Investigation
You can preview all the directions and printables when you view this item in my TpT store!
Interested in More Seasonal Activities?
Halloween Seek & Spell Challenge
Seek & Spell Challenge is an engaging word work strategy that builds foundational reading skills and improves spelling. Kids love it because it’s fun, and they don’t even know they’re learning! Teachers love Seek and Spell Challenge because it’s low prep, easy to differentiate, and effective!
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Upper elementary students need practice with spelling patterns and word-building, but time is tight. Luckily, there’s a fun activity they’ll love so much they won’t even realize it’s spelling—they’ll actually beg to play!
