Elementary school is a literacy emergent time in students’ lives and Winthrop Avenue students were encouraged to infuse their love of Halloween into their English language arts lessons.

Joanna Verde’s third grade remote students began their morning live meeting with Chromebook cameras turned off. Each student took a turn providing classmates with three clues about their costumes. Classmates had to then make inferences about the costume their peer was wearing. With a correct guess, the students turned on their cameras to model their choice of costume. Additionally, the students worked on Halloween-themed activities, including writing a spooky story based on a picture of a haunted house and participating in a directed drawing lesson of a pumpkin and a black cat, strengthening their descriptive writing, art and listening skills.

Popular superheroes, book personas and fairytale characters attended school in Samantha Seith’s third grade classroom. The students chose a favorite storybook character, either a favorite from home or one read about in school, and dressed up as the beloved character.