HAPPY HALLOWEEN !

By the students of the 6th class of the Primary School of Thermi, Lesvos

15 Halloween Resource Sites for Teachers

15 Halloween Resource Sites for Teachers
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and an online  Halloween story at http://storytimeforme.com/story/bens-halloween






You can let students create their own Halloween Story making a class book. They can use model sentences. You can get inspired by the following clip and let the students write the sentences and make the book illustrations.

MAKING SCHOOL BOOKS

Every year I like to make books with my students in which they can express their own feelings, likes, dislikes, things they do, personal facts, etc. They can write about all these things and read about their fellow students. They get very excited when making them and even more excited when it is their turn to take the books home to read them. You can make these books using simple materials such as cardboard, A4 size writing paper, or even a simple drawing pad. You can write about almost anything in these books. For example, you can make a monthly calendar with your students, laminate it and write the students' birthdays on it using a whiteboard marker. You can get inspired by books you may have read in class such as "Brown bear, brown bear what do you see?", songs like "This is the way" or special themes you want to teach.

Shape Monster, Shape Monster,
munch, munch, munch...
How about a red circle for your lunch?
page 2 blue square 
page 3 yellow triangle
page 4 green rectangle
page 5 orange oval
page 6 purple diamond
page 7 goes Shape Monster Shape Monster (top of page)
Munch, Munch, Munch (bottom of page)
For each of the shape pages the children trace that shape on the middle
of their page, color it whatever color it says and then tear pieces of
paper (again in the asked for color) and fill in the shape using torn
paper pieces and glue.
On the last page , they make their own shape monster using pre-cut
shapes. They can use crayons to add details to it.
Another idea may be : Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews
1. One dot can make an elephant's eye (just an example)
Two dots can make ___________________etc. 
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/927.html
More ideas at http://www.pre-kpages.com/classbooks

 

You can also use printable books you can find online to create a small graded library in class. We used paper boxes of cornflakes which we turned into book boxes to store and categorize the books we made. The kids had to put together the pages, paint the illustrations, read the book and even present the story using the laminated puppets (story characters). You can find printable story books at : 

http://www.meegenius.com/store/books/free/

www.childrensbooksforever.com

http://freekidsbooks.org/

http://storytimeforme.com/

http://www.angelfire.com/pa5/as/printables.html

http://www.teachinglibrary.co.uk/?utm_source=fbtwpost&utm_medium=fbtw&utm_campaign=fbtwOct10

By encouraging students to get actively involved in the process of making a book they get highly motivated when time comes to read the book. They take pride in what they have achieved. Improved reading skills undoubtedly improves their learning.  All we have to do is to help our students become "good readers"!

Presentation Tools by the creative Classroom Group

Web 2.0 tools to use in introducing yourselves and your class in eTwinning projects

Open publication - Free publishing - More etwinning

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

The ideal story to teach or revise food vocabulary or the days of the week. You can make your own caterpillar and food, cut a hole in the food pictures and make the appropriate munching sounds as the caterpillar "eats" her way through the food.  I also showed my students a real cocoon, as I was narrating the story and they were all amazed! You can create your own story with the students using http://www.storyjumper.com/

or craft your own caterpillar using the following technique: http://mmmcrafts.blogspot.com/2010/06/being-eric-carle.html

More ideas from a Greek Kindergarten at :
http://edonipiagogeio.blogspot.com

 

http://www.teachpreschool.org/2012/06/a-wonderful-collection-of-eric-carle-books-and-activities/

Other similar stories you can work with in class are :

You can find more ideas at : http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/the_very_busy_spider.html
      
You can create a reading workshop in class to encourage your students to start reading
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http://www.crafts-for-preschool-kids.com/more-crafts.html