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[crazylemongirl]

I'm doing a club class for halloween.

So far my ideas are

See how many words students can get from 'trick or treat'.

Blowing up some balloons with treats inside of them, and getting the kids to pop them (this is 1st grade middle schoolers)

Apple bobbing.

An eyeball race (like egg and spoon, but I'm using a painted ping pong instead).

Watch a movie. Either harry potter or some trashy 80s movie like gremlins.

[Freezer Burn]

Trashy? Gremlins I love Gremlins lol....

You could make masks.

[AbbeFaria]

Gremlins would be so much better, even though it's set at Christmas. I'm a big fan of Harry Potter, but Gremlins is spookier.

An actual holloween movie, a good one that kids could watch, is Hocus Pocus, with Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker. If you're not familiar with it, it's about three witches who were killed in Salem in the 17th century and are brought back to life by some kids one holloween in the present. A little hokey, I admit, but it's a fun movie. The witches are Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy(sp) and are very entertaining.

As far as bobbing for apples, I've been warned since childhood that it's bad because a bunch of little kids getting all there germs mixed up in a bucket of water and then it gets spread around so I dunno about that... Are Koreans as germ-phobic as Americans?

If pumpkins are available in Korea you can get a bunch of little ones for cheap and have the kids paint faces on them, their favorite cartoon charachters or scary faces and have a contest.

If grapes are available in korea (I'm not there yet so you'll have to forgive my lack of knowlegde about it) and you've got a lot of time, you can peel a bunch of them and stick them in a bucket or bowl and cover it up with some sort of lid with a hole, and tell the kids they have to reach in. It will feel very slimy and you can pass that off as eyes. I've seen a bucket of speghetti used as intestines as well. For extra gore-effect toss in a can of cheap speghetti sauce for a little blood action.

Corn Syrup mixed with some red food coloring can make some very good fake blood.

Get some suckers and kleenex and some sharpies. then, have the kids make a ghost face and they put it over the sucker and they have little ghosts. Maybe some yarn or twine to tie the kleenex in place over the sucker, and then flair the bottoms out, maybe cut them up to make them look tattered or whatever.

Hope some of these are helpful.

[JongnoGuru]

[Demonicat]

check out www.learningpage.com for halloween lesson plans. Its kindie/1st grade level but good with worksheets and all. Registering is free.

[joe_doufu]

I'm thinking of doing up a whole haunted house thing in my hagwon. We are near a high school so perhaps we could offer free admission (and treats) to the kids walking to the bus stop after school, give them a scare and fill their pockets with candy and the hagwon's brochure. This is what I may propose to the wonjangnim as a worthy investment in the hagwon's future client base. However, I have to decide if I am not too lazy to architect such a grand palace of fright.

[Dan The Chainsawman]

I am gonna go to work in my flip flops, jammies, and no shave or shower and tell my won jon its my halloween costume. After sitting about and scratching my privates for a few hours I might even remember that I should attempt to do my white monkee teachee englishee dance.

My lesson for the day will involve throwing huge gobs of candy that I plan to steal from my won jon. No point in asking for it she will just say yes, and deprive me of what little amusement I get out of my day. The actual work will be reading James Joyce, and I will sum up each lesson with a rousing, "That's the trick boys, now get the hell out for your treat!"

[ilovebdt]

Great thread CLG,

I am currently racking my brain as to what to do with my high schoolers for Halloween.

Any more ideas appreciated.

[AbbeFaria]

[Demonicat]

Sign up for free brainpop then show the story of halloween, explain the societal practice of it, the roll on. Halloween is a holiday of creativity, something many K High school kids lack (or rather, lost)

[moptop]

I'm having my high schoolers make their own monsters. I don't want to give too much away because I'm going to use it for my demonstration class for the government officials. There were several routes I could have chosen with this activity, and I wish I had smaller classes because I wanted students to cut out body parts from a magazine and glue them together onto paper. The conversation and description possibilities are endless with this one. It seems a little juvenile but my students really enjoy anything creative and because their ability is low they experience a lot of success with things like this.

I also had the idea of having them write a halloween party invitation. There's lots of new vocab they could learn, especially the good words like booger, slimy, saliva, snot, pus, vomit, barf. They have to make a menu for their invitations with things like "bread of the dead", "brain dip", " boogers on a stick", and "chocolate armpit hairs". They have to make activities and list who, where, when, etc. and decorate their invitations. It would all be modeled first for them, but they can usually manage a guided activity.

I made October Halloween month, and i did an intro lesson to give them some Halloween vocab. We played 9 pumpkins (hangman) with it and i was able to slip in some more new vocab that way. If you want the lesson, PM me.

I did a listening exercise with an episode of Friends this week cuz half the classes don't show up. I made a fill in the blanks, short comprehension and guess what the vocab means sheet. The episode is on Season 8, disc 1 (that my boyfriend bought at walmart for 29,000 won) titled "The One With the Halloween Party". The kids loved it and it gave them a better idea of what people do at Halloween. The episode is only about 24 min long and the scene I use is first. If they don't get the work done, they don't see the rest of the episode. Verrrrrrrry effective!

I thought about a mad lib story, too, but I think i'll save that for another lesson. There's lots online with this one.

Do a "Who are you?" riddle activity. My kids loved my riddle lesson. There's lots of extension because after the activity I had them make their own riddles and teacher had to guess. I would pretend I had no idea and ask for more clues. They thought thought they were the smartest students EVER!!! Wow!! I fooled a native speaker!!!! And yes this is high school. You could have them think of people and things to dress up as, (or use the Halloween vocab for this, too) and you have a super easy lesson. I can PM you my riddle lesson if you want. With big classes ya gotta do some rearranging, but it works.

Hope these help!!!!!