HALLOWEEN GIGGLE & BOO GAME

Children love playing chatterbox and we have made one for Halloween time!

To play, you just have to hold the game and ask your friends to pick a character, spell it out while you open and close the center, then ask them to pick a number from the ones shown, open and close while you count it out. Finally, repeat and pick one more number and open to reveal something silly for you to do.

Some of these funny things are : do your loudest scary laugh, fly around the room like a witch, walk like a mummy, make noises like a ghost, say “trick or treat” five times fast ! 

Later, we have played in the playground the games organised for this day like : dance choreography, candy toss, broom obstacle race, and tug of war. We have taken pictures of Halloween costumes too. 

In the classroom, we have shared some sweets with our friends. 

Everybody has enjoyed it . It has been a great day!

Eva Furió

English Department

MEXICAN ART IN THE ART ROOM

Since it’s near Halloween our students from 5th and 6th Year Primary have been having some fun in the art room working on a special project. They have made “Sugar Skulls” which are a symbol of the Day of the Dead following the colourful Mexican tradition.

During this project, we have not only learnt about Sugar Skulls, we have also learnt about different drawing techniques, patterns, radial symmetry, bi-lateral symmetry and colour!

We started drawing a symmetrical Sugar Skull, then we drew the details and coloured them. Finally, we added flowers, especially marigolds, as they are a big part of Day of the Dead. The results were fantastic and all the students enjoyed this colourful activity.

Now we are off to decorate the school with our Sugar Skulls!

Happy Halloween!

Belén Mut Casanova

Primary Art Teacher

Spooky Kooky Halloween

Children in costumes, a torch in one hand, holding their partner’s hand with the other. The room is dark, the music is spooky, blinking Jack’O’Lanterns in the corner. Here and there eyes, twinkling in the dark. A spider appears, then a witch and Frankenstein. But... How did it come to all that? 

It started when the children began to make their Halloween crafts. Bats, pumpkins and two kinds of monsters have been the chosen ones this year. Once finished, they were proudly displayed outside the classrooms and thereby sounded the bell for the Halloween week. We took a ride on a broom with little room, wiped our wands with Winnie the witch and witnessed how monsters, werewolves and ghosts might be real, but not at all scary. We took a journey with Piglet, Pooh and Tigger through the sometimes horryfying celebration of Halloween, sang Abracadabra wizzy woo and danced a rattly skeleton dance. 

All that charged the air with Halloween energy and led us to the highlight on Friday; We took a walk through the Halloween tunnel. Our so well-known audiovisual room had turned into a dark space. We entered in small groups and discovered lots of creepy, crawly, spooky, kooky objects. Eventually the exit was opened and we finished our journey. After calming down we had lots of fun at the Halloween party in the afternoon, with games, prepared by our older fellow students and a special tea with magic milk. One can say that the bar is raised for next year’s celebration!

Nicole Wohlwill

English Department

Manualidades de Halloween: ¡Sigue nuestras huellas!

Ha llegado Halloween y es momento de preparar nuestros disfraces y de decorar nuestra casa para la ocasión. Si queréis pasar un divertidísimo ratito en familia, fomentando la creatividad de vuestros “peques”… ¡Manos o, mejor dicho, pies a la obra! Aquí tenéis una manualidad que nuestros alumnos del Club D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) han realizado.

Materiales:

• Pincel y pintura de dedos verde.
• Cartulinas de colores.
• Cartulina plateada o papel de aluminio.
• Tijeras, pegamento y colores.

Pasos a seguir para pasarlo fenomenal:

1. Pintamos con pintura de dedos verde las plantas de los pies. ¡Atención, cosquillas aseguradas!
2. Mientras las huellas se secan, podemos preparar los distintos elementos de la composición con las cartulinas: ojos, boca y tornillos.
3. También realizamos con cartulina los letreros, escribiendo la frase:

• TRICK OR TREAT
• SMELL MY FEET

          ¡Cuánto más tenebrosas sean las letras, mucho mejor!

4. Por último, pegamos todas las partes siguiendo el modelo que os ofrecemos en nuestras fotografías.

Conseguiremos unos graciosísimos monstruos con la cara de Frankenstein. El resultado es además muy entrañable, pues lo hemos realizado con las huellas de nuestros hijos.

Loles Roig

Dpto. de Lengua y Literatura