Here are some last minute ideas and thoughts on Halloween this year.
Halloween is just around the corner; and this is a fun time for teachers to bring in creative lessons, plus some arts and crafts. But what about older students? Or for children who don’t celebrate Halloween? Do they just get left out? Unfortunately that answer is usually yes. I actually had a girl whose family did not want her celebrating or participating in holiday activities. I always felt so bad for her, missing out.
Here, I have found several sites with lessons that incorporate the general fun feeling of Halloween, ones that create learning lessons for older students, others are focused on the seasons, another brings a thought provoking lesson into the history of Halloween, one tells us about what our Halloween costumes really say, and a few surprises. This list of lessons and sites should give teachers the chance to incorporate something different without excluding any of their students.
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http://www.edhelper.com/halloween.htm
http://www.edhelper.com/pumpkins.htm
http://www.edhelper.com/DailyThemes_November_1_2.html
http://www.edhelper.com/Autumn.htm
http://www.tolerance.org/activity/what-do-halloween-costumes-say
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Halloween/
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/teaching-topics/teaching-topics-halloween/
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/the-horror-the-horror/
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/frighteningly-fabulous-festivals/
