It’s Halloween week! Let’s have a sweet time solving tricky problems. You need to get rid of the rotten pumpkins but don’t wreck the good ones that are still edible.  Good luck!

• Pumpkin Remover
• Pumpkin Remover 2
• Pumpkin Remover 3

Extra Time?

• Read about Henry’s pumpkin and pumpkins, here.
• Learn how to make a pumpkin you can carve and light up in Hopscotch, Carve a Pumpkin!  Sign out an iPad to get started.
• Write a Halloween poem for Mrs. Eyer, Halloween Poetry.
• Create a Magnetic Halloween Poem.  Share with your teacher.
• A Candy Challenge for multiplication.  Print and complete.

Today we used, Story Cubes, to generate a creative story.  Anyone can become a great story teller and there are no wrong answers. Let your imagination “roll” wild with these images.  Post your story to this blog.

The National Day on Writing (October 20), an initiative of the National Council of Teachers of English, is built on the premise that writing is critical to literacy but needs greater attention and celebration.

For ten years, hundreds of thousands of people share their writing and engage in activities around the theme of #WhyIWrite.

Today, we will write for entertainment!

1.  Use wordless books to create a story.
2. Emoji Prompts to generate stories.
3. Story Dice  is a free app with dice that feature pictures create your story.
4. Writing Sparks use this website for timed stories online.
5. Choose one or more activities from the poster and make it happen.
6. Write your story to Chalk by Bill Thompson.

Extra Time? Try these games:

• The Punctuation Game
• Punctuation Speed Mark
• Punctuation Paintball

Swish is a fun game that develops thinking skills like logical reasoning and visual perception.

Sudoku is a number placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the 3×3 boxes contain all of the digits from 1 to 9.

Try to complete the easy, medium and hard puzzles from class. Or go online for a daily puzzle…

SUDOKU of the day!

The tangram is a puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes, called tans, which are put together to form shapes. The objective of the puzzle is to form a specific shape (given only an outline or silhouette) using all seven pieces, which may not overlap. It is one of the most popular puzzles in the world. Tangrams are an excellent way to increase mental and visual skills. Using imagination, geometrical shapes, letters, numbers, figures, boats, animals and objects can bring great fun along with a challenge.

Let’s play online!

Now try these shapes…Four Piece Tangram Puzzles

How to make your own…

Try these tangram puzzles online.

Bestselling author Brad Meltzer wrote two books with:
60 heroes.
60 stories.
60 reminders that anything is possible.

Check out his #1 Hero – Video!

Who is your #1 hero that you would want your son/daughter to know about? Model your writing like Brad Meltzer. Use a title, subtitle, story and quote. Post to this blog, create a google doc and/or video.