Teacher’s tips

Level of education: Elementary School - Early Childhood Education

Age: 04 to 08 years old

The time of fear, Halloween, is upon us. Like many parents and teachers, you may cringe at your child's request for scary stories. While October brings its fair share of sweets and costumes every year, it also brings a spooky array of fiction. Fictional stories are always welcome, but if you want to prepare something really cool for Halloween you can gather this story and other classics to tell the kids. Below we list interdisciplinary activities to work on the subject.

Learner outcomes

Develop text reading and interpretation; Understand the use of the alphabet in the construction of words; Expand vocabulary; Stimulate the imagination; Stimulate creativity; Participate in different moments of reading; Develop attentive listening to understand texts; Develop and improve oral and written language; Read different types of short stories;

Teachers’ goals

Work on reading and text interpretation skills; Provide, in a playful and creative way, the progress in the reading and writing process of children; Expand the class's repertoire of letters and words; Work principles; Offer the game as a didactic resource to fix the content worked in the classroom; Awaken the habit of listening and feeling pleasure in situations involving reading; Provide contact with texts of literary quality;

Suggestions of approaches for the teacher

Step 1: Select the read to me option

Step 2: Select the option I read it myself

Step 3: Write down the unknown words and look them up in the dictionary

Step 4: Create a new fictional story using the unknown words.

Step 5: Gather all the students' stories into one.

Step 6: Turn this story into a theater to perform during Halloween week.

Step 7: Build the scenery and costumes with the students throughout the year, with the help of the art teacher.

Step 8: Prepare Halloween recipes with the help of the math teacher, making the activity interdisciplinary.

More about it

The proposal today is to take your child/student to the local library. Have you ever made this type of visit?

There are many reasons for you to develop this habit with children. Below we list some of them:

• Going to the library stimulates the taste for reading

• Your child/student learns that quiet times are needed for reading.

• They develop autonomy, becoming able to decide their wills and preferences.

• Having a library card and borrowing books help children develop care and responsibility.

• When you visit the library, you can expose your kids to more books and magazines than you can buy.

• Regular visits to the library inevitably lead to more reading.

• Libraries also have books that you would never have thought to introduce children to your child, they have the opportunity to develop their own interests, be it princesses, ballerinas, dinosaurs or vehicles. A trip to the library can open your child's eyes to a range of subjects and interests.

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