Knock Knock Trick or Treat Several ideas for Halloween!

Haunted Houses

 I will give you some ideas and some links of course for a BAT-astic Lesson!

Here's what you can do!

Pre school / Very Young learners

• Knock Knock songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jxcWlq3CBg

• Print Doors and hide the characters from the song behind. Ask them to guess!
• A guessing game https://eagr39105-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/eusoulou_ea_gr/EaDZjVJ4HBJPiR2FMCK3HaMBe-KnoQlLfRe3UcMJ2iaLsA?e=KCpLOV Students guess from the character or from the sound
• A game with doors. The pictures are from SUPER SIMPLE SONGS and there is lots of material to colour in ther site.
• A matching activity with spiders! Use tongs (for fine motor skills) to catch the spiders

https://eagr39105-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/eusoulou_ea_gr/EdVq9Ofz-k9Pu9l5FE0iD5oBrhPonPwW1FE1j3fIqw8pnQ?e=VkOKak

Young learners / Grade 1 or 2 students primary

• Room on the broomhttps://eagr39105-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/eusoulou_ea_gr/EXPdWweQCVhAk9rUP_EjS8QBDvljCK5X7-Zh7MAjdxAXyQ?e=BL0gzm
• You will find on previous post prenty of material

Grade 3 or grade 4 and Parts of house

• Haunted Houses for sale craft   https://eagr39105-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/eusoulou_ea_gr/EXbDIDpLjJJCgdiqSI4lcbMBCsSTYFwJLTGcN2z-kUuaJA?e=unfbuC 
• Or magic potions (see previous posts on Halloween)

Grade  5 

• decribe a scary characterscary character

Grade 6 

• Write a scary storyscary story

you can visit these libraries and play games

https://linktr.ee/sarahvirtualpublished.

Halloween " Room on the Broom'

 A nice story by Julia Donaldson

You will find the ppt for the story https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19G8SGpryfsUY1r-7_K6dgI26AdVhYCbU/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116865390534689857514&rtpof=true&sd=true

You can find a sequencing activity here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xfWs3ty9b7Qa8p4_gIKVXrsn5twqFsnE/view?usp=sharing 

Here is a link with games and the songshttps://view.genial.ly/65342adcfd07b10011c19ff2/presentation-room-on-the-broom

The students can dramatise it using the story puppets They can be found here https://www.twinkl.gr/resource/t-t-7703-witch-and-animals-stick-puppets

And there is  a  nice song on utube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsfhYNH6O-8

Here is a game https://wordwall.net/resource/5791441/room-on-the-broom-by-julia-donaldson

Story characters and props are from sparklebox and they are free https://drive.google.com/file/d/10hZYKQS-zBBrA-2fQOEQQmbMQOGUhUIz/view?usp=sharing

Make your potion

https://roomonthebroom.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ROTB_makeapotion.pdf

Extension Activity : The students use the worksheet and make their magic potion

Winter and Clothes

 Warm clothes for Bear!

A story you can teach Winter words, Winter clothes, Forest Animals and Good friendship

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gTdlsSdSgOhyIkk0QFZjmGN3mOjqGGnM/view?usp=share_link

A link for extra practice

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1678747821982875650

 A song for winter clothes

Put on your boots

 A game which is fun from British Council

Dress Teddy

Dress the boy or girl for Winter...

or dress a bear! (copy paste it in a word file)

or teach the weather!

Christmas Stories (Little Robin Red Vest)

 A lovely story that teaches students good friendship and sharing!

Little robin gives all his vests to his friends and in the end he is cold and needs help!

Santa knows how generous this bird is and asks his wife to knit a brand new red vest!

It teaches colours, numbers, forest animals and Values!

All in one story!

You can find an adaptation here:Little Robin

How to present:

You make a Robin as in the picture and vests in different colours according to the story!

Yo can find the Tesol Presentation and download it so that you get an idea of extra activities you can do...

      Tesol Presentation 

A nice activity would be to talk about Good Friendship!

and ask your students to write on the vests...

Christmas Stories (the very hungry reindeer)

 

The very hunry reindeer is a story that teaches Christmas Words in a fun way!

You will find it here:The very hungry Reindeer 

Your reindeer can eat other Christmas Words as well! Depending on the level of course!

Kindergarten sudents loved this craft though....

You can take an idea of how here :Reel

You can click on the photo and copy past in a word file!

For the reindeer click and print and stick it on  thick hard paper, a big box perhaps!

Then of course you can ask your students to colour their own reindeer!

Christmas Stories (Stickman)

 The story of Stickman is a nice story to work with your students right before Christmas!

It's a story about a stick which can move and talk! Depending on what you are teaching and the level of your students, with stickman you can teach numbers,family members, body parts, comparative, superlative, seasons, the elements of a story, the verb to be and a lot more...

I simplified the story for my very young learners in bookcreator. You can find it here:Stickman

I also found the utube videos online and merged them to one video as it seems to me that watching this short film will make understanding easier...

You can find it here.Movie

I also created a thinglink which is made for young learners. Right now my students are practising family members so the games are focusing on Stickman's Family.

You will find it here:games

You can actually dramatise Stickman with props costumes and realia and it could be your Christmas Play!

As a surprise you could make Stickman Cookies for your kids or with your kids!

They are delicious! Ι used the easiest recipe with nutella!

You will see it here:Biscuits

Ideas of how you could dramatise it are shown here.

Laminate the settings of the story and make a road (optionally). You could simple throw the settings on the floor! The main character Stickman will be walking or jumping from place to place.

Hopefully in the end Santa will take him back home....

Here are some props

A hat for Stickman would be ideal!

and headbands for the other actors or masks

                                                   with paper ribbons or paper headbands!

And a skirt for the sticklady

You could even make a Family Tree!

Story Maps will help them retell the story and understand the story better!

or draw a map!

Can our students identify the characters and the settings?

Here's one activity!

Can they put the story in the right order?

What if they made a missing poster?

What if you focused on the rhyming patterns?

or Feelings?

Do you like teaching through crafts? I do!