Halloween and the School Unit for Elementary ELLs

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By incorporating Halloween activities, teachers provide ELLs with an opportunity to experience and understand a key aspect of the culture.

Blend essential classroom language with the fun of Halloween using the school things flashcards. Students will associate common school supplies (e.g., pencil,) with the Halloween theme helping retain vocabulary through visual context. Always use pointers for asking questions.

The Halloween theme reinforces additional seasonal vocabulary, such as "vampire," while teaching necessary school-related terms using the small cards. Ask questions: What character is shown on the scissors?

Students: Vampire!

I made this pointer to read words. I bought this cutout at Dollar tree years ago, but grab the idea to make your own.

The worksheets with a Halloween theme add excitement to the lessons. Have the students complete the worksheets while learning school supplies vocabulary in a festive context.

Engaging ELLs in games around Halloween helps to maintain their interest and participation in language learning. This domino game involves all the school supplies words and images to match.

Halloween-themed school supplies games provide a dynamic way to teach vocabulary to English language learners (ELLs). Students love BINGO! Play this game by having the students color the school items in any of the four colors playing: green, orange, purple, black, and glue only 6 of them onto their board.

Use your calling cards to start the game: an orange book! The student that color the book orange can cross out the block. Keep in mind that you can play this game at any other time using the same board that they have created. It is useful for those final 5 or 10 minutes to wrap up a class.

Leaving for last this flap book printable. This is a creative writing activity. Students will color the Frankenstein on each flap and write a text.

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Halloween and the Haunted House Prepositions

 This resource is included in the House Unit for Elementary-Starters at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooms-of-the-House-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-10395114

Print and use this spooky theme of a haunted house and ghost to capture your students' attention. The resource provides a clear visual to grasp prepositions (in, on, under, behind, in front of and "next to") through fun and interactive activities. The resource caters to different learning styles (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic).

Each flashcard portraits a specific preposition with a ghost in relation to a haunted house or objects (e.g., "The ghost is on the Haunted House").

The activity promotes spatial understanding by helping students visualize and use prepositions in meaningful contexts, which is critical for language development. Use the colored or b/w version of the ghost and house cutout for the students to recreate each preposition: The ghost is in front of the house.

Use the flashcards as a writing activity.

Use the ghost cutout and play Ghost Hunt (Hide and Seek with Prepositions). Hide the ghost cutout around the classroom (e.g., under desks, on the bookshelf, next to the door). Have students search for the ghost and describe its location using prepositions ("The ghost is under the chair").

 

The small cards can be used in different interactive activities. One of them is the Memory Game where students match the cards, challenging students to find pairs that match the correct preposition to the image.

Add the worksheet to the lesson plan. Find Labeling Prepositions: Students will have to choose the correct preposition (e.g., in, on, under, next to, behind, in front of), Fill-in-the-Blanks with Visual Clues, write different questions to each picture.

By moving the ghost around the haunted house and using prepositions to describe its location, students actively practice their language skills. Fun to glue and create a Haunted house poster with all the ghosts in their location.

Print the Preposition Dice to play several games. Students roll the dice and then place or move a ghost cutout to play in the location of the Haunted house cutout. This game provides hands-on interaction with prepositions.

Haunted House Board Game. Print the board game with a haunted house theme. Students move their Halloween character game pieces around a board, landing on locations in the haunted house. Each space has a sentence to say or a space to move: The ghost is on the Haunted House.

Matching Card Game. Prepare the mat with pictures of a haunted house and ghost in different locations. Students take turns drawing cards with the preposition words and place where it belongs. There is also a sentence set to play a puzzle game.

Hope you will love this Game. I used to make different versions for my students in my teaching days. Print a card per team. There are 4. Have the cards and house ready for each team.

When you say, "Go!" the students must read the sentences and place the cards in the corresponding place to complete the task. The first group who puts the proper things in the correct location gets a point for their team.

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Halloween cat and hat Prepositions for Elementary ELL

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Give your students Preposition practice to help them become more fluent using the Halloween theme.

 The Halloween theme always captures students' attention. Print the flashcards to visually establish the relationship between the cat and the hat in various positions helping students connect the vocabulary.

Teachers can use the small cards in different ways. Cut the word and have the students match to the picture on the other part.

Worksheets allow students to apply what they’ve learned in this practice.

The worksheets have this visual connection to enhance memory retention.

 Matching mat. Students can work independently, reinforcing their understanding of prepositions using this mat where they match the picture to the preposition.

The puzzle is based on constructing grammatically correct sentences.

Add writing to this puzzle activity.

Students will use preposition vocabulary to advance on the game board path. Players roll a die and move their marker piece to the corresponding space. Some spaces have a picture of a cat and a hat in a different prepositional relationship. The player must say the correct preposition or a sentence to stay on that space. If they get it wrong, they move back one space.

The dice makes preposition learning a hands-on experience. It helps to keep focus on sentence structures by having students use prepositions in complete sentences like "The cat is under the hat", enhancing their speaking skills. This kind of games makes prepositions easier to understand.

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Numbers 1 to 20 Halloween Eyeballs for Elementary ESL

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This resource provides a fun way for students to practice recognizing and identifying numbers from 1 to 20 in a Halloween context using eyeballs.

Display the Halloween eyeballs flashcards randomly, and have students pick a card, identify the number, and say it aloud. This helps with both number recognition and pronunciation. Students will grab a sidewalk chalk and write the numeral and the word.

Print the small card format that offers additional flexibility for classroom activities.

Throw the beanbag.  Spread the small cards (with Halloween eyeballs and numbers 1 to 20) on the floor or tape them to a wall. Students take turns tossing a bean bag onto a card. Wherever the bean bag lands, they must identify and say the number aloud.

Cut the word out of each small card. Have the students pair the Halloween eyeball number with the word.

Worksheets

The spooky visuals will capture their attention. The worksheets help students practice recognizing numbers from 1 to 20 in a structured and repetitive way. Learners will complete the numeral or the word for each box.

Using eyeballs as a visual aid provides a strong visual cue for number identification. On one worksheet answer the question How many eyeballs? and on the other it’s an unscramble the letters to write the number word.

Worksheets serve as an easy way for teachers to assess students' understanding of numbers 1 to 20. Plan making the dice ahead of time, a set of dice can serve a small group of ELLs. ELLs throw the dice and then color accordingly.

Connect learning with the Holiday! Students cut and paste the numbers and create a 1 to 20 mat.

Game

Ask students to arrange the flashcards in the correct order from 1 to 20. You can make it more interactive by asking them to count the eyeballs as they place each card.

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