🎃 Halloween ELA & Math Activities for Upper Elementary

Curriculum-Aligned • No Fluff • Just Fun Learning

Want to celebrate Halloween without falling behind on standards?

These Halloween-themed ELA and math activities are the perfect way to bring spooky season into your classroom while staying aligned with your curriculum.

Designed for upper elementary (4th & 5th grade), this resource blends creativity, critical thinking, and standards-based practice all month long.

👻 Language Arts Activities

Keep literacy skills sharp with engaging, Halloween-inspired practice:

🎲 Halloween Roll-a-Story

(Includes writing organizer + final draft paper)

🔮 Halloween Fortune Teller

(Perfect for interactive class discussions)

🧙 Frightening Figures of Speech

🕷 Spooky Similes

🧛 Wicked Word Choice

🍬 Candy Creation Writing Activity

📖 Reading Graphic Organizers:

• Scary Story Elements
• Spooky Summary
• Monstrous Main Idea & Details

🧠 6 “Would You Rather?” Prompts

✏️ Additional Writing Prompts:

• My Pet Bat
• My Pet Spider

🧮 Math Activities

All math activities are aligned to 4th & 5th Grade Common Core Standards and include answer keys.

🎃 Pumpkin Place Value

🧟 Zombies to Zero

👻 Ghostly Equations & Expressions

🍭 Sweet Sums & Differences

🍬 Trick-Or-Treat Factors

🍫 Trick-Or-Treat Decimals

🧌 Monster Multiplication

🧪 Frankenstein Fractions

🦸 Costume Comparisons

🏁 Halloween Racers

These activities reinforce essential math skills while keeping students motivated and engaged.

📌 Important Notes

✔ Math pages are Common Core aligned (Grades 4–5)

✔ Answer keys are included for math activities

✔ This resource is NOT editable

🎯 Perfect For:

✔ October centers

✔ The week of Halloween

✔ Thematic units

✔ Sub plans

✔ Early finishers

✔ Whole-group or small-group instruction

✔ Seasonal engagement without losing rigor

Celebrate Halloween the smart way — with meaningful, standards-based learning wrapped in spooky fun. 🎃✨