Since children like Halloween so much, teachers will naturally not miss this good opportunity to teach. Jingjing opened her own network disk, relying on the accumulation of these years, she actually saved more resources of1g.
In order to facilitate teaching, I sorted them into 10 categories: cultural introduction, vocabulary resources, interesting picture book stories in Chinese and English, children's songs in Chinese and English, clothing ideas, creative food ideas, pumpkin lantern ideas, creative handicrafts, teaching activities and exercises, and virtual classrooms. This article is enough about Halloween.
I will also share these resources with you for free (see the end of the article for details). Let's take a look at how to use these resources in teaching!
It is very necessary for students to master relevant background knowledge when teaching festivals. We can import and introduce Halloween through PPT presentations or videos to help students quickly understand its origin, history and celebrations. Children in lower grades can watch some simple animations, such as The Origin of Halloween by Beva.
We can use "History of Halloween For Kids" for English videos, which is easy to understand by combining animation and pictures.
Senior students can watch some more specific presentations, have a deeper understanding of the cultural connotation of Halloween, and also master some language points.
The following video is also a favorite of students, because it introduces the origin of Halloween with an image similar to Minecraft, which is very interesting.
No matter which festival you talk about, vocabulary is a very important part. Therefore, illustrated Halloween word cards are also essential teaching resources. We can use these word cards to carry out many teaching activities, such as flash card recognition, card matching, Bingo, Tic-Tac-Toe and so on.
In addition to teaching vocabulary with word cards, I also like to show students some small videos of learning vocabulary before the formal start of class. These animated videos can help us warm up before class, and at the same time, they can quickly shift children's attention to the classroom. The following two videos are all Halloween vocabulary videos, one in the form of situational stories and the other in the form of alphabet nursery rhymes.
After learning vocabulary, we need some exercise papers to help students consolidate their exercises. At the beginning, children can do the simplest matching exercises by cutting and pasting, in order to get familiar with words.
After that, you can do some exercises that require deep thinking, such as the following noun classification exercise paper, which classifies Halloween words according to "place", "animal", "thing" and "person".
Another classic game suitable for practicing words is Word Search, which can help students master the spelling of words.
Halloween-themed English picture books are very rich in resources, and most of them are illusory, which is of particular interest to children. Jingjing helped everyone find 24 audio reading videos of picture book stories.
Pumpkin is the most important cultural symbol of Halloween. Reading picture books about pumpkins can stimulate children's curiosity about seasons, agriculture, geography and traditions.
If you are worried that your child can't read it, you can try Big Pumpkin first, which is similar to the story of Pulling Radish.
There is a saying abroad that Halloween is not complete without some thrilling stories! The following are Halloween horror books suitable for children of all ages.
There are also some interesting and fantastic picture book stories on Halloween. One of the most classic books is Room on the Broom. The hero of this story is a kind and lovely witch, which will make children feel refreshed. Moreover, the words in the book are very rhyming, and children can read it fluently.
There are not many Chinese picture books for Halloween. The following books are translated from English picture books and are relatively easy to understand.
I have selected some English children's songs with Halloween theme from children's songs websites such as Super Simple Songs, PinkPong, The Singing Walrus, etc. These children's songs have a strong sense of story and picture, and children will definitely enjoy singing and dancing with the music.
I also found some Chinese versions of children's songs for you, which are very suitable for learning Halloween vocabulary or practicing some simple sentence patterns.
Trick or Treat is the most interesting activity on Halloween. On that day, children will put on all kinds of costumes and knock on doors for candy. In some places, Halloween costume parades will be held, and all men, women and children will take to the streets in strange clothes. It is really a beautiful scenery.
Many people worry about Halloween every year because they have to spend money on Halloween costumes. In fact, Halloween costumes don't have to be spent. As long as everyone uses their brains, many materials around them can be used by waste, and hand-made DIY costumes may be more outstanding! I have selected some Halloween costume ideas suitable for children, families and teachers, and see if there are any you like.
Children's dress
Family dress-up
The teacher's dress
I'm curious, what will you dress up as this year?
40 kinds of creative foods
There may be anything on the Halloween table, whether it is pumpkin pie eaten by every household or homemade spider chocolate cake. The dark dishes that are usually unacceptable can win a place on Halloween.
If you want to impress everyone, you can try the following zombie toast, ghost rice balls, spider cookies, cemetery cakes, mummy hot dogs, skull salad ...
These skinny shapes make me feel sick ~
30 pumpkin lantern ideas
Another beautiful scenery during Halloween is the Jack-O-Lantern. The custom of foreigners putting jack-o-lantern at home is similar to that of putting up Spring Festival couplets on Chinese New Year. The production of pumpkin lanterns is very simple, and the video "How to Carve a Pumpkin Jack-o-Lantern" has a detailed introduction and demonstration.
If you think it's too difficult to use a knife directly on the pumpkin, then you might as well try this method of "rubbing", as long as you prepare a pen and paper and some pins.
In addition to the classic horror faces, there are many different styles of pumpkin lanterns, and you can use your imagination to design them. The following paragraphs are for your reference.
In the past, the pumpkin lantern I carved every year would rot after a week or two, and I was always puzzled how others could keep it for months or even a whole year. Until I watched the video "The Best Method to Preserve Jack-o-Lanterns-Pumpkins", I got a lot of practical skills for the preservation of pumpkin lanterns.
50 creative manual
Of course, Halloween theme teaching is also indispensable for children's favorite handicrafts. Most hand-made Halloween materials are easy to find, and the production process is relatively simple, mainly through clipping and folding. Let's take a look at the handmade materials I have compiled!
Halloween paper dolls (assembled with claw nails)
Stereo origami tombstone
Ghost origami
3D paper pumpkin
3D paper cat
3D bat
Witch paper doll
3D folded pumpkin
All the above handicrafts have video tutorials, which are in the resource package shared with you at the end of the article. In addition, I also found some other interesting handmade ideas, which can be understood in seconds after reading them, and I will share the pictures of these handmade works with you.
If there is enough teaching time, teachers can also take advantage of the festive atmosphere of Halloween to take students to do some interesting activities and exercises, and use children's love for Halloween to improve their interest in learning.
Coloring exercise
After studying in the morning or finishing homework, the most suitable activity for children is coloring. I helped you organize a lot of Halloween-themed coloring practice papers, which can be printed directly, and we can also put them in the exhibition area or use them for classroom environment creation after the children finish.
English short book
I introduced many picture books to you earlier, which are more suitable for Read Aloud and Guided Reading. And then to share these little books with you is more suitable for students to do Independent Reading.
The book Halloween Counting is very suitable for preschool children to practice high-frequency words and numbers 1- 10.
The book Halloween Sounds allows children to practice nouns and onomatopoeia related to Halloween in rhythm.
The book I See Candy can practice numbers, colors and high-frequency words at the same time. After the book, there are some exercises such as coloring high-frequency words, consonants and letter pairing.
The book "Halloween Safety" is a very practical safety guide, which introduces the precautions for children to participate in various Halloween activities.
Math exercises
Many teachers have also made the exercise paper in math class a Halloween theme, and even children who don't usually like to do math problems will become interested. For example, the following set of numerical reasoning exercises, with the "blessing" of Halloween, is not so boring.
My Halloween Math Book is very suitable for children in grades one and two. The exercises in it are rich and varied, including numbers, digits, time, addition and subtraction, etc.
There is also an interesting exercise for children to measure bats, spiders and mummies:
Classification exercise
Classification exercise of "facts or opinions": Make some descriptions about Halloween into cards, and let students read them and distinguish whether they are "facts" or "opinions". This activity is very helpful to cultivate children's reading comprehension and writing ability.
Classification exercise of "Feast and Healthy Food": This activity is also suitable for children. It distinguishes "healthy food that can be eaten every day" and "reward food that can only be eaten occasionally" by cutting and pasting, which can help children establish a healthy diet concept.
Writing practice
When it comes to writing a composition, many children have a headache, but in fact, as long as teachers use appropriate methods to guide them, children can finish a composition easily and happily. After reading many Halloween picture books, children can also practice writing "ghost stories". We can use Halloween dice to help students choose the protagonist, place, main scene and plot of the story.
Then some tables can be used to help students, so that the description of the protagonist, the characteristics of the scene, the background of the story, and the beginning, process and end of the story are more concrete.
Children's homework also needs packaging, so I also found some beautiful writing papers for everyone:
STEM activity
Building a tower with corn candy and toothpicks is a favorite activity of students, which can let children give full play to their imagination and improve their spatial perception.
Before the activity begins, we can let the students write down their construction plans, and then let them sum up the challenges they encountered in the activity and reflect on them.
Halloween blind box
There are many ways to play the Halloween blind box. We can put some "scary" things or Halloween gifts in the box, and we can also put some Halloween-related questions. In short, we should create fun and mystery. You can DIY how to play it.
virtual classroom
Virtual classrooms have been popular since online classes this year, and virtual classrooms are inseparable from innovation. What is the effect of virtual classrooms on Halloween? As long as students click on the pictures in the virtual classroom, they can get online learning resources such as videos, electronic picture books and small games through the links set by teachers. Jingjing also helped you find some virtual classrooms shared by foreign teachers, and summarized the links into a PPT document.
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These are the Halloween resources I want to share with you. The Chinese and English teaching materials shown in the article include 10 folders, videos, courseware, working papers and more than 100 files, which you can download directly. If you like granular articles, you can also share them with your friends who are busy preparing lessons.
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