Holiday Investigations : Halloween!
Hallo again! (see what we did there ? Nina says this wasn’t my finest). Yours truly were there , and they're ( their was also a costume but is not pictured). Of course we can all have a reminder about homophones on Halloween! It was just recently Halloween in 5th grade and we wanted to share one of our favorite parts of prepping for the holiday. In 5th grade since we are constantly examining systems and institutions, we examine many holidays throughout the year and Halloween is no exception! Halloween is a jackpot for discussing stereotypes, cultural appropriation, gender norms, “trends” and media. In short, we LOVE it as a way to inspire even more social justice conversations. We do an investigation into Halloween in which students are broken into four groups: “boys" costumes, "girls" costumes, cultural/international costumes, and "women’s" costumes. We have either found appropriate