We started off with Halloween bingo. I drew a card from a pile which had a word on it. I asked him to identify the first letter of the word and the sound it makes. After he did this, I told him the word and turned it over to show the picture and he put a marker on his bingo card where the picture was. He got all of them without any problems, which led me to believe the activity was too easy for him, but he stayed interested because of the game aspect of it. It was a fun game and could be adapted in a number of different ways depending on where students are in letter recognition or reading.
Then I read the book The Hallo-wiener by Dav Pilkey. It is a cute book about a wiener dog named Oscar who dresses up as a hotdog for Halloween and gets made fun of by everyone else. When the other dogs get scared off by a monster, however, Oscar comes to the rescue. The other dogs stop picking on Oscar and share their Halloween treats with him. It is a funny book that kids enjoy but it also has a great message in it as well.
Just wanted to share an idea of a fun holiday themed activity to do with kids. If anybody else had an activity that their student enjoyed, please share!
I was inspired by your Halloween bingo and Hollow-wiener and decided to read that with a few of my first graders this week. Our first grade class is completely decorated with spidery things and pumpkins everywhere because the teacher has integrated the upcoming Holiday into the curriculum. I think that this makes learning certain things more interesting for the children. She has embraced their angst for Trick-or-Treating and has re centered their student thinking.
ReplyDeleteI really wanted to try and do a bingo type game with them as well but we had no time this week, but I really liked your mini Halloween lesson :)