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Halloween in my classroom and BOO!
We don’t celebrate Halloween in my school. In fact, we did not had it in the stores until a couple of years ago. In Spain we have something called Todos Santos. It’s a family tradition. We go to visit our dead family members and friends to the graveyard and take them flowers.
There are some scary stories that say that those days dead people can communicate with us and so on…
So in my school we celebrate our ‘Scary Week’. During next week we read and write scary stories.
We started thinking of scary vocabulary and wrote all the words on the blackboard The kids had to copy 8 of them on to their bats/spiders. I love giving them chance to choose.
In the middle they wrote something like: I’m not scared!
The patterns were printed onto colored paper. So this was a quick activity. I only added some clouds and a moon onto the bulletin paper and that’s all! And instant ‘mini’ bulletin board.
If you want to create this, check out my Bat Facts or my Spider Facts printables.
You can see another great example of a Bats bulletin board here. Thanks, Rachel from A-B-Seymour!!!
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These are my Halloween products:
Some cards for your students and a fun craftivity. We will be using it next week to hold our spooky stories!
I love creating science fold and learn activities to mix science and art. They make beautiful bulletin boards as you can see. 😉
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Day of the Dead resources
We don’t really celebrate Day of the Dead in Spain. But as I am having lots of bilingual teachers I decided to share some online resources a video and a cute craftivity I just posted in my store.
This is a great video to show to your Spanish learners. It explains the meaning of the celebration in Spanish.
It is very difficult finding educational games about the Day of the Dead. But I found these two games:
The first one is my favorite. I’m sure my students will love creating this colorful skulls. You can have your students play on the Smartboard and say the parts of the body as they see them: Pierna derecha! o Right leg!
The second game is just an remake of one of those shooting games. It is an oldie, but it is great!
I have also created a fun craftivity to use in your classroom. It has many posibilities. Check it at my TPT store!
