Tuesday 28th October, 2014
Hello, how’s everybody? Are you getting ready for Halloween?
Well, we have
already celebrated our Halloween in Learn and Enjoy! And you were an important part of it because
you were teachers for a day!
Our Flipped Class on the topic of Halloween was a success thanks to your collaboration. You brought
materials and very good ideas!
Marcos, Alicia and Alex stayed in our usual class. They played games with the kids and made some crafts with them. (I’m
sorry because at first we thought the kids were older but in the end we changed
with the class of 6-7 year – old students!
We had to adapt our materials a bit…
They played “Blind Pictionary”.
It consisted in covering the
participants’ eyes with a piece of cloth, (blindfolding) and
whispering what to draw. The other participants had to guess what the picture
was.
They also had to guess the card they had on the hairband on their
foreheads. They had to ask questions about it. Am I black? Am I a monster? Am
I an animal? etc. We use “I”
because “WE” are supposed to be the
thing on the card! It was funny! And they sang and danced a "Halloween" song for us.
I would like you to write your opinions about the experience. (Preferably on the blog)
How did you feel teaching younger students?
You have some traditional Halloween games below.
Halloween party game ideas
Rupert Jones suggests five
games that are perfect for a Halloween party. What are your favourite family games?
Bobbing for apples, a traditional party game. Photograph: Getty Images
Halloween shouldn't be scarily expensive. If you are looking for some cheap
thrills tonight, or for your bonfire night party next weekend, here are five
low-cost or free games that are guaranteed to go down a scream.
The chocolate game
You need: A big bar of chocolate, a scarf, some gloves or mittens (the bulkier the
better), a hat, a knife and fork, a dice - and, ideally, lots of people.
Get everyone standing around the table, and put the
unwrapped bar of chocolate on a plate. Everyone takes a turn rolling the dice,
and when someone gets a six, they have to sit down, put on all the gear and
then try to cut off a piece of the chocolate with the knife and fork. If they
manage it, they can pick up the piece with their fingers and scoff it (for
hygiene reasons, it's probably best not to eat it with the knife and fork). But
while they are putting on the hat, gloves and scarf, everyone else is rolling
the dice, and as soon as someone else gets a six, the first person has to stop
immediately and let the other person sit down and put on the clobber ... and so
on. It's best played fast and frantic, with lots of people. The game ends when
the last piece of chocolate has been munched.
Apple bobbing
You need: A big bowl, water, apples.
Fill up a bowl with water and chuck in several apples.
Everyone takes turns to see how many apples they can remove in one minute using
just their mouth/teeth. Removing the stalks makes it harder! Perhaps best not
played with people who have streaming colds ...
The flour game
You need: A bag of flour, a bowl, a knife, a plastic disc (a Connect 4 counter
works really well), and a chopping board or plate.
Warning: this is a messy one. Tightly pack the flour
into the bowl, then put the chopping board or plate on top, turn the whole lot
over, and gently lift off the bowl. With luck, you'll have a flour 'sandcastle'
standing on the chopping board. Then put the plastic disc on top. Using the
knife, people then take turns removing a small slice. Eventually your flour
sandcastle will collapse. The person who causes this to happen must then remove
the disc from the floury rubble using just their teeth. Some people use
chocolate or a sweet instead of a plastic disc, though this can mean there is
too much of an incentive to take a wrecking-ball approach ...
The chocolate balls and chopsticks game
You need: Two small bowls, some chopsticks and some small, foil-wrapped
chocolate balls or sweets.
Put all the balls/sweets in one bowl. Each player then
has one minute to transport as many as they can from one bowl to another, using
just the chopsticks (if you can manage more than 20 in a minute, you're doing
well).
Pin the wart on the witch's nose
You need: A big piece of paper or card, a crayon or
pen, a drawing pin, a scarf and some small stickers.
This is basically a Halloween version of pin the tail
on the donkey. Draw a big picture of a witch and pin it up on the wall. Each
player in turn is blindfolded, spun around and led to the picture. They are
then handed a sticker ... Closest to the nose wins.
What do you think of these games - can you do better?
For your Flipped Class, everybody got 8 points. Player
1 had an extra point for writing the beginning of the story that María is going
to continue. And player 7 got -1 because he didn’t do the part of homework I
gave him.
GAME 5
Player 1
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9
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Player 2
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8
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Player 3
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8
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Player 4
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8
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Player 5
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8
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Player 6
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8
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Player 7
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7
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For homework, you have to write a composition
telling what you did on Halloween. Then, you will tell our classmates in class.
Have a spooky Halloween!
This is the beginning of your story.
Once upon a time in a village of England, in summer, seven kids lived an adventure ...Their names are: Sara, Alicia, Lucía, Alex, Guille, Marcos and María.
Every afternoon they were together because they had a good time. One day, they went to the forest in the village. In the forest they found a chest. In the chest there was a magic book...