PamlaJJ's Learning Library

This seasonal activity emphasizes math skills including sorting, creating and interpreting graphs, greater and less than, and addition and subtraction. It turns one of most children's favorite holidays into a fun learning experience. Students are first asked to sort their candy into six different groups. These groups have been brainstormed and agreed upon by their whole class prior to trick-or-treating. Students then fill in a graph to show how many pieces of candy they received in each group.

I love integrating subjects whenever I can. If I an combine language arts with math in one academic exercise, I�ll do it! I also love to write poetry for children. If I can make the poem educational as well as fun to read, all the better. Happily, I was able to do all of these things in this combined poetry and math activity. The concept of recognizing and counting coins is presented in the poem itself. I tried to make the rhythm easy to keep and kids will be quick to point out the rhym