What Do You Do With Leftover....Spiders?

Well, if you are a first grader, you do a team building activity with your leftover plastic spiders from Halloween!

Supplies needed:  A straw and a plastic spider and elbow partners and a happy attitude.  The object of the game is to blow your spider across the table until it falls off and loudly cheer your table mates on!

 Everyone was a winner because we got to keep the spiders (in their backpacks right away)!

That was such a fun experience, so why not turn it into a narrative writing story?  We are approaching our on demand final narrative writing piece, so I gave the students a graphic organizer to capture the beginning, middle, and end of our spider race experience.

Many students chose to write about this experience because it was fresh, but several wrote about trick or treating and their Halloween night...because it involved candy and dressing up-who wouldn't want to write about that too?!!!.

No matter what we wrote about, we had a lively experience that showed us how to have fun and be a good sport with our teammates.

What shall we do with leftover turkeys???????