Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Halloween In School
I worked so hard that week! Planning, preparing for, and throwing Halloween parties in school turns out to be much more work than teaching a regular lesson. I have 3 different classes that I plan lessons for (aside from all my regular set-curriculum classes). One group is ten 1st & 2nd grade monsters, another is a nice quiet set of eleven remedial 4th graders, and finally a great 5th & 6th grade high-level class of fifteen.
I made a Halloween coloring and vocabulary book for the little monsters, but I was really sick on Friday so I didn't even get to teach it to them. My 4th graders learned some new words and we also colored pictures for the classroom wall. My high-level class is my most enjoyable group of students at my school. I see them 3 days a week and they are really great kids. They all work really hard on English, so I went all out for them. There were 5 stations in the room with different activities:
1. Mask-making. I got all kinds of crafts and even snagged a hot glue gun so they could get creative.
2. Art table. I had colored construction paper, crayons, markers, scissors, glue and rulers so they could make something to take home or put up in their classrooms.
3. Mystery bags. I had 6 bags that the students could reach into and guess what was in them. They were all creepy-feeling of course! Pistachio shells felt like fingernails, a fuzzy stuffed animal that they thought was real, string with water and lotion rubbed into it like nasty oily hair, a different furry thing, flattened orange peel also with lotion to feel like skin, and finally peeled grapes felt like icky eyeballs!
4. Halloween quiz board game. Had to have a little English in there ^^
5. Candy and soda table. I had cute little bags of assorted candies, and one student's mom heard we'd have a party so she brought candy and some soda for us!
I had two students help me get the room decorated a little, and 4 girls stayed after to help me clean up. It went by so fast I even forgot to put on the Halloween music video playlist I had spend an afternoon making on YouTube! But nonetheless, it went very well. All the kids had something to take home with them and they actually had fun playing the board game. Luckily the director of English for our school had the foresight to bring her camera down for us!
I made a Halloween coloring and vocabulary book for the little monsters, but I was really sick on Friday so I didn't even get to teach it to them. My 4th graders learned some new words and we also colored pictures for the classroom wall. My high-level class is my most enjoyable group of students at my school. I see them 3 days a week and they are really great kids. They all work really hard on English, so I went all out for them. There were 5 stations in the room with different activities:
1. Mask-making. I got all kinds of crafts and even snagged a hot glue gun so they could get creative.
2. Art table. I had colored construction paper, crayons, markers, scissors, glue and rulers so they could make something to take home or put up in their classrooms.
3. Mystery bags. I had 6 bags that the students could reach into and guess what was in them. They were all creepy-feeling of course! Pistachio shells felt like fingernails, a fuzzy stuffed animal that they thought was real, string with water and lotion rubbed into it like nasty oily hair, a different furry thing, flattened orange peel also with lotion to feel like skin, and finally peeled grapes felt like icky eyeballs!
4. Halloween quiz board game. Had to have a little English in there ^^
5. Candy and soda table. I had cute little bags of assorted candies, and one student's mom heard we'd have a party so she brought candy and some soda for us!
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