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Are you looking for engaging activities to bring the magic of Halloween to your classroom? This It’s Raining Bats & Frogs by Rebecca Colby companion pack is the perfect addition to your October lessons! This fun, interactive unit to go along with a book It’s Raining Bats & Frogs helps students dive into themes of problem-solving, growth mindset, and celebrating Halloween—making it much more than just a book study.
Join Delia, a resourceful little witch, as she faces some unexpected weather at the annual witch parade! Through exciting activities, students will learn about cause and effect, character development, and how to turn challenges into opportunities for creativity and fun.
This comprehensive pack provides a full day of activities that can be spread over several days, ensuring your students remain engaged and excited. Each task is carefully designed to meet essential ELA standards, while also encouraging social-emotional learning with a focus on developing a positive mindset.
What’s Included:
- Character Analysis: Dive into Delia’s character by comparing how she feels at the beginning and end of the story, describing her on the inside and on the outside, labeling witches’ items and more.
- Sequencing & Retelling: Reinforce key events with fun, cut-and-paste sequencing activities. Differentiation options ensure that all learners can succeed.
- Cause & Effect: Help students explore Delia’s attempts to fix the weather with visual and written cause-and-effect charts.
- Writing Prompts & Craft: Encourage creativity with a fun witch’s hat craft and a writing prompt asking what Delia would do if it snowed at the next witch parade!
- Problem-Solving Activities: Have your students imagine fun ways to solve everyday problems with a little magic—just like Delia!
- Growth Mindset Activities: Compare Delia’s can-do attitude with a witch who has a fixed mindset and discuss how a positive outlook changes outcomes.
- Halloween-Themed Fun: Students can design their own Halloween parade, creating a collaborative classroom poster filled with witches, goblins, and more!
- Craft & Vocabulary Work: Wrap up the lesson with a vocabulary word search, synonym matching, and a fun craft where students imagine what would fall from the sky if they had magic!
- AND MORE! SEE PREVIEW FOR ALL THE ACTIVITIES INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT!
Skills Covered:
- Making Inferences & Predictions
- Character Traits & Emotions
- Cause & Effect
- Sequencing & Summarizing
- Growth Mindset & Problem-Solving
- Author’s Purpose & Text-to-Self Connections
Bring the magic of It’s Raining Bats & Frogs into your classroom for your next Halloween read-aloud!
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SAVE BIG WITH A BUNDLE! This resource is also available at a discounted price as part of this growing bundle of Halloween read-alouds that includes 5 engaging books plus a bonus cauldron writing craft!
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