Halloween party

This year we decided to organize a Halloween party in our school. My colleagues and I worked as a team and did our best to create a pleasant atmosphere for our students. We also included the parents by inviting them to take part in some pumpking painting. All of the students and the teachers wore costumes. All of the games, activities and the photo booth were created by ourselves though we did some research on the Internet to selected the best ideas.
I hope you'll find this interesting enough and use some of it for next year's Halloween :)

1. Photo booth - Find a good picture on the Internet and use a thick cardboard to create the photo booth. Colour it and draw holes for the face. Place it in a nice corner in the classroom and you're ready to take photos.

2. Place the bow tie - You can either draw a skeleton on the board or you can make one out of cardboard so you can use it over and over again through the years. Print and cut some bow ties. Blindfold the students and ask them to pin the bow tie on a certain place on the skeleton. The person who puts the bow tie on the target place is the winner.

3. A very similar game to the previous one is with a ghost and a speech bubble saying : BOOO. Blindfold the students and ask them to put the Boo sign closest to the ghost's mouth.

4. Put the rings on the cones. For this game we bought some scary hats and used several rings. The students need to toss and put as many rings on the cones.

5. Toss and hit. You need a big cardboard box to create this. Draw and color the pumpkins and make three holes in each pumpkin with a different size. Give the students some paper balls and ask them to try and hit the holes. The biggest whole is 5 points, the second is 10, and the smallest is 15 points. Collect the points and announce the winner :)

6. Broom and pumpkin race. Make sure you have enough space in the school where you can do this game. Take two small pumpkins and two brooms. Set a starting spot and a finishing spot. Ask students to race each other by hitting the pumpkins with the brooms and rolling them to the finishing spot.

7. Pumpkin painting. Carving pumpkins can be a bit difficult and time consuming. Instead you can paint the pumpkins and still get some scary ones. This year we invited the students' parents to help us with this. After the pumpkins were done we displayed them in the hall of the school. We've really got some fine artists :)

8. Trick or treat. Halloween wouldn't be complete without a treat. My colleagues and I prepared home made cupcakes and decorated them for the occassion. Yummy.....

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR WITH SOME NEW IDEAS!

You can see more photos of the event here:

https://www.facebook.com/emiemce/media_set?set=a.10153014658096853.1073741879.603176852&type=3&pnref=story

Celebrating Halloween - Learning can be fun!

Holidays in our school are always extra fun :)
This year we celebrated yet another Halloween with some pumpkin painting ( since carving can be a bit tricky) and some apple bobbing. Students enjoyed it and so did I :)

SCHOOL BAZAAR - Learning can be fun!

In the fifth grade I use the book Welcome 2. My students and I got inspired to make our own School Bazaar after doing Unit 5. The difference is that we didn't sell the food, but we all ate it together. The parents of the students prepared it all after we did the research and found all the recipes. The bazaar was on American and British food followed up by some nice games and activities. We invited some of the other teachers to be our guests and take part in this event. My colleagues were required to play the games and use their English:) I always like when students see how other teachers use English, and how important it is to know another language.
You might think that we had a lot of unhealthy food but I promise that it was only this one time.
The games that we did:
1. Pin the tail on the donkey.
2. A ring toss game
3. Close your eyes, touch the animal toy and name the animal
4. Guess how many beans are there in the jar.
5. Dart