Halloween!!

In the last times I am always rushing from one place to another and there is no time for blogging. Just lesson planning, activity making and preparing... I have to say that I am learning a lot from those little monsters!! but they have all my time for them in and out from the school, I hope this is not going to be always this way...

Anyway, here it comes Halloween and it is time for our little monsters!
I am doing some research for activities and ideas for tat day and this post is aimed in that way, it will be a summary of all the places I find interesting and worthy visiting.

• This link will take you to a pdf. document in which Carolyne Ardon compiles and extends activities for Halloween from the British Council. It is definetly quite inspirating! Many of the activities are to be worked with on-line and a few others you can print. There is a story maker for the kids to write their own stories, which I think it is a very useful tool.
• DLTK's web site offers a great variety of activities for young, and not so young learners, specially the Holliday Activity site. It's quite a good resource for printable materials you can also adapt to your necesities:

1. Make your own books! Five little pumkins, an illustrated printable eight-paged ministory for kids to make their own minibook. It has nice pictures in it and they can colour and a simple story which can be also presented as a poem.
2. Within the Seasonal Tracer Pages we can find interesting ones to arrange a nice review of the Alphabet for the young ones for halloween, and by the way they will learn new vocabulary related with the day we are concerned. Some of them may be a bit tricky!!
3. I particularly like the "Happy Halloween" word mining game together with its explanations and templates form the same web site. They have to make as many common words as they can from the letters in "happy haloween", it is a great spelling practice for the young students and a challenging activity for not so young ones!
4. Together with this activity, there are many workseets you can easily print for different levels and which will ensure a fun linguistic experience!
5. From this same place I have printed colouring printables featuring haloween characters on which they will have to draw the details missed. This is a good activity for very young students and a goood practice for colours and part of the body-face and clothes!