A- HAUNTING- WE - WILL - GO !!!!!!

HALLOWEEN COMING SOON !!!!!  31st OCTOBER 2010

DO SOME SPOOKY ACTIVITIES.....

• Prepare your students by talking about Halloween and making some Halloween crafts to decorate the classroom and create the appropriate atmosphere to motivate the students by making them enthusiastic about it.
• Teach them words such as "ghost", "witch", "Jack-o'-lantern",etc. in context by handing out worksheets such as Word Search, Crosswords,etc. A useful source is the following site : http://www.theteacherscorner.net/printable-worksheets/  
• Here are some craft ideas 

•   Use old magazines to cut out different body parts and create a FRANKENSTEIN !!
• Alternatively, the older students can work on a SKELETON ! They can use post-its to name the bones.
• Riddles can be given to older students to solve, such as :  
  

   

   

   

  Ghost Riddles

  Ghost Riddles...solve these and then create some of your own to stump your classmates!
  1. What kind of music do ghosts like?
  2. Why did the ghost take his family on an elevator ride every day?
  3. What do ghosts do when they want to start up a computer?
  4. How did the ghost do at the comedy club?
  5. What do you call a website for ghosts?
  6. What is Casper's favorite sticky treat?
  7. Where do baby ghosts come from?
  8. Why did the ghost go to the doctor?
  9. What would you get if you crossed a cocker spaniel, a French poodle, and a ghost?
  10. Who protects the shores where spirits live?
  11. What did the papa ghost say to his ghostly children?
  12. What is a ghost's favorite direction?
  13. Why couldn't the ghost ride the bus?
  14. Why did the ghost rush home from school?
  15. Why did the police officer arrest the ghost?
  16. What do young ghosts call their moms and dads?
  17. Where do little ghosts learn to yell "BOO!"?
  18. Why are ghosts like newspaper?
                                                                            Ghost Riddles Answers:
  1. Rhythm and boos.
  2. To raise their spirits.
  3. They boo-t it up!
  4. He was a dead-knockout.
  5. Bahoo or Yaboo!
  6. Boo-ble gum.
  7. Boo Genes.
  8. To get a booster shot.
  9. A cocker-poodle-boo!
  10. The Ghost Guard.
  11. Fasten your sheet belt.
  12. Horror-zontal.
  13. Because he didn't have exact chains.
  14. To watch an afterghoul special on TV.
  15. Because he didn't have a haunting license.
  16. Transparent.
  17. In noisery school.
  18. Because they appear in sheets.
• Create a story using Halloween characters such as a ghost and a spider....The students can draw the characters and act it out .

FRIENDSHIP WEB: This is a game.  Cut out a big round piece of butcher paper (black or orange for Halloween). Have the students sit around the paper on the floor. With a roll of white yarn in hand and after the student has expressed who they want to roll his/her ball of yarn to, ("I'm rolling this to my friend, John", "Where's my friend, John?","Here I am, here I am"), he/she will roll the yarn to the individual. Either another student or a helper will tape the yarn to the paper so that it is secure for the other player. After the game, you will have a friendship web to put up on a bulletin board and the class can decorate with spider crafts. The students love to see the web get bigger and more detailed!

Spooky Bags
Put various items in bags for the students to feel. Don't let them look in the bag. To make it more Halloweeny, bags could be labeled as "spooky" things; intestines for macaroni, cobwebs for cotton, toenails for artificial nails, maggots for rice, etc. Then have them list as many words as they can to describe the testure of the item. Great for increasing their vocabulary or getting them to a more varied vocabulary in their writing.

AND OF COURSE STORIES AND SONGS ..........
FOR THE YOUNGER


AND THE OLDER


HAVE FUN !!!!!!!!!!!