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 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!
The whole point of the exquisite corpse game—an ideal activity for practicing parts of speech and sentence structure—is to produce a Frankenstein-like text. To build on its macabre theme, try asking your students to come up with Halloween-related sentences.
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!
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!
Writing : Alloprof Teacher's team