HALLOWEEN.

Hi everybody! Today I'm going to show you how we have celebrated Halloween in my school! 

But, first of all for those who don't really know what's this party or where did it start, let's tell them that Halloween is a holiday that's celebrated annually on the night of October 31. It originated in Ireland, and is celebrated in quite a few countries including Ireland itself, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden among others. It's celebrated in a variety of ways and activities including trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, "haunted house" tours, carving pumpkins (Jack-o'-lanterns) and reading / watching scary stories / movies. 

This party is just one day, but its preparation takes a little bit more! In my class we were doing things related with it since two weeks before. Here are some of the activities that we did:

We decorated our class with the letters and pumpkins (image above), and the children did their own costumes and two cutouts to decorate, one was a skeleton and the other one was a black cat: 

The teachers prepared some real pumpkins and a photo call:

On Friday 31 of October, the teachers prepared some activities to do outdoors:

The last activity was in the afternoon and the children went class by class dressed singing a song that they have learnt:

It was, definitely, a wonderful day! And children loved it!

Enjoy teaching,

Laura.