Halloween is a popular holiday for people of all ages. It also happens to be a great opportunity to do fun teaching activities with your students! In this article, Alloprof shares six ideas to try with your class in honour of the spookiest day of the year.
We picked the most dreadful, most ghastly, most hair-raising vocabulary words for this special version of bingo (and no, we do not mean hard-to-spell words like myrrh, coccyx, or lachrymose!). Halloween bingo will get your students excited about the holiday while showing them that spelling is nothing to be afraid of!
Halloween is the perfect opportunity to let your creativity and imagination run wild. In this writing activity, students are asked to write descriptive texts in the style of museum labels, drawing inspiration from the unusual artifacts on display in a glass-fronted cabinet.
This writing prompt encourages students to use their imagination to write a Halloween story inspired by a picture. This activity helps them become familiar with the structure of the story by building their plot around the provided illustration.
Halloween has inspired a vast realm of fantastic and often frightening literature. You can take advantage of the captivating nature of scary stories to encourage your students to do some Halloween-themed reading. Alloprof has two lists of book suggestions in this vein, one for primary school and one for high school. Just between us, we find it helps to read spooky stories before the sun goes down!
Monster House is a simple game that helps students practise following directions while building spatial vocabulary for second-language learners. You can, for instance, ask your students:
• Find the monster who lives in between the one wearing a hat and the one holding a cake.
• Find the monster above the one wearing a tie.
One of Alloprof’s most popular games is the immersive reading game Book of Spells. Intended for students in Grades 3 to 7, the game features excerpts from books by Quebec children’s authors. Students have to read the texts and answer reading comprehension questions to feed and take care of a little monster. We recently implemented some upgrades to make this educational game even more enjoyable. Your students are sure to fall under its spell!
Two stories from Book of Spells are particularly fitting for this Halloween season: The Movie Night and the expository text Friday the 13th: An Unlucky Day.
Making Halloween candy from scratch is a fun, kid-friendly science experiment that your students can do in class. When sugar crystallizes, its physical properties change, but its chemical properties stay the same. The crystallization process has a snowball effect: the crystals build up around an impurity as the sugar cools, gradually forming a large mass. For detailed instructions for this experiment, see activity #10 in this article. Your students will love the way the rock candy “grows” like magic!
Need to review French lexical categories? With Potager en péril, it’s easy as pumpkin pie! Throughout October, the game will be Halloween-themed, complete with a haunted tunnel. Dress up Mr. Carrot in creepy costumes and accessories while protecting his vegetable garden!
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