Foundation Class 

HALLOWEEN

Last Tuesday was Halloween, and although it is not an official festival in Australia, many people still like to celebrate it. It was a great learning opportunity to teach the Prep students what Halloween is all about.

When asked, most of the Prep students understood Halloween to be a time where people dress up in all sorts of scary costumes such as ghosts, witches, or skeletons. Then they celebrate the day by going trick-or-treating at night. They go from door to door saying, "Trick or Treat" and hopefully they collect some lollies from people’s houses.

We discussed where the festival originated and some fun facts about Halloween. The Preps then had an opportunity to write a scary story using some Halloween vocabulary and sit in the ‘Author’s Chair’ and read it to the class. The ideas and enthusiasm to write a really scary story to scare Miss W was of high priority!

All the students loved writing about skeletons, witches, potions and zombies. Below are 

just a couple samples of the fantastic writing that was produced.

During the day, Miss W brought in her cauldron and all the students cast a spell for some rewards to be placed into it by the end of the day. All the students had to add three ingredients into the cauldron for the spell to work.

Holly: “I wanted to put eyeballs, blood and sugar into the potion so that we get some scary treats.”

Edward: “My ingredients for the spell was bones, bats tongues, rotten fish and lollies. This will make a yummy potion.”

Willow: “My ingredients were blood, frog legs and cupcakes. We then have to say a special spell."

At the end of the day when we came back into the classroom, everyone had the opportunity to stir the ‘spell ingredients’ in the cauldron and dip their hand in afterwards to grab a reward for their great pieces of writing during the day.