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 than 1G resources.
For the convenience of 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, 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 see how to use these resources in teaching!
In festival teaching, it is necessary for students to master relevant background knowledge. We can introduce Halloween through PPT demonstration or video import 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.
English videos can be made with Children's Halloween History, combined with animation and pictures, which is easy to understand.
Senior students can watch some specific demonstrations, have a deeper understanding of the cultural connotation of Halloween, and also master some language points.
The following video is also the favorite of students, because it introduces the origin of Halloween with an image similar to My World, which is very interesting.
No matter which festival you talk about, vocabulary is an important part. Therefore, illustrated Halloween word cards are also essential teaching resources. We can use these word cards for many teaching activities, such as drawing cards, 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 formal classes. 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 alphabetic nursery rhymes.
After learning vocabulary, we need some exercise papers to help students consolidate their exercises. At the beginning, children can do the simplest collocation exercises by cutting and pasting to get familiar with words.
After that, you can do some exercises that need 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 rich in resources, most of which are illusory, and children are particularly interested. Jingjing helped everyone find 24 audio reading videos of picture books.
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 understand 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 some interesting and fantastic picture books on Halloween. One of the most classic books is The 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 rhyme, and children can read 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 selected some English children's songs with Halloween theme from the children's songs website, such as Super Simple Songs, PinkPong, Singing Walrus and so on. These children's songs have a strong sense of story and picture, and children will definitely like to sing and dance 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 of Halloween. On that day, children will put on all kinds of clothes and knock on the door for candy. In some places, Halloween costume parades will be held, and men, women and children will take to the streets in strange clothes. This is really a beautiful scenery.
Every year, many people worry about Halloween because they have to spend money on Halloween costumes. In fact, Halloween costumes do not have to be spent. As long as you use your brains, many materials around you can turn waste into treasure, and hand-made DIY clothing may be more outstanding! I have selected some Halloween costume ideas suitable for children, families and teachers to see if there are any you like.
children garment
Family dress up
Teacher's clothes
I'm curious, what will you look like 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. 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 biscuits, cemetery cakes, mummy hot dogs and skull salad. ...
These skinny shapes make me sick ~
30 pumpkin lantern ideas
Another beautiful scenery during Halloween is the pumpkin lantern. The custom of foreigners setting a ghost fire at home is similar to that of China New Year's Spring Festival couplets. The production of pumpkin lantern is very simple, and the video "How to Carve Pumpkin Lantern" has a detailed introduction and demonstration.
If you think it is too difficult to use a knife directly on the pumpkin, you might as well try this "rubbing" method, as long as you have a pen and paper and some pins.
In addition to the classic horror face, there are many different styles of pumpkin lanterns, which you can use your imagination to design. The following paragraphs are for your reference.
The pumpkin lantern I carved every year will rot in a week or two. I have always wondered how others can keep it for months or even a whole year. It wasn't until I watched the video "The Best Way to Preserve Pumpkin Lantern-Pumpkin" that I got a lot of practical skills for the preservation of pumpkin lantern.
50 Creative Handbook
Of course, Halloween theme teaching is also indispensable for children's favorite handicrafts. Handmade Halloween materials are mostly easy to find, and the production process is relatively simple, mainly through cutting and folding. Let's take a look at the handmade materials I have compiled!
Halloween paper doll (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 I can understand in seconds after reading. 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 or finishing homework in the morning, the most suitable activity for children is coloring. I've arranged a lot of Halloween-themed coloring practice papers for you, which can be printed directly, and we can also put them in the exhibition area or use them to create a classroom environment after the children finish.
Brief English book
I have introduced many picture books to you earlier, which are more suitable for reading aloud and reading guidance. Then share these little books with everyone, which is more suitable for students to read independently.
The book Halloween Count is very suitable for preschool children to practice high-frequency words and numbers 1- 10.
The book The Sound of Halloween allows children to practice nouns and onomatopoeia related to Halloween rhythmically.
The book Candy I read 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 of math class a Halloween theme, and even children who don't like to do math problems will be 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 grade one or 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 for students to read and distinguish between "facts" and "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 between "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 eating concept.
Writing practice
When it comes to writing a composition, many children have a headache, but in fact, as long as the teacher guides them with appropriate methods, 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, location, main scene and plot of the story.
Then some tables can be used to help students to make the description of the protagonist, the characteristics of the scene, the background of the story, the beginning, the process and the end of the story more specific.
Children's homework also needs to be packaged, so I also found some beautiful manuscript papers for everyone:
Stem activity
Building a tower with corn candy and toothpicks is students' favorite activity, which can give full play to children's imagination and improve their spatial perception.
Before the activity begins, we can ask students to write down their own construction plans, and then let them sum up their challenges in the activity and reflect.
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.
virtual classroom
Virtual classrooms have become popular since this year's online classrooms, and virtual classrooms cannot be separated from innovation. What effect does the virtual classroom have 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 textbooks in this paper include 10 folders and more than 100 files such as videos, courseware and working papers, which can be downloaded directly. If you like granular articles, you can also share them with friends who are busy preparing lessons.
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