KS1 'Bats' 2 week planning grid

Halloween Bundle KS1&2

Resource 1 Halloween powerpoint lesson. Fully resourced with 9 pupil worksheets.Learning objectives • To know the origins of Halloween. • To compare long ago Halloween customs, superstitions and rituals with those celebrated today. • To create and perform spells and spine-chilling descriptions about Halloween. • To work co-operatively with a partner or small group to discuss answers and ideas about Halloween and create a short role play. Fun, interactive lesson which begins with pupil experiences of Halloween. Simple historical origins, customs and superstitions are introduced through riddles, mapwork, completing captions in speech bubbles, role play and idea showers. There are opportunities for pupils to complete structured written tasks and develop literacy ideas through writing spells (using ‘the witches’ from MacBeth) and short descriptions. The lesson includes nine pupil worksheet activities which link (optional) to the lesson and include a creepy picture description, Haunted house spine chilling vocabulary, witch / monster descriptive template, Halloween activity mat (jumbled words, wordsearch, maze, pumpkin decorating, draw the other half), a spell template, co-ordinates activity, Pumpkin acrostic poem template and a 32 card Halloween Quiz. This lesson can also be broken into 2-3 lessons if all of the templates are used. Resource 2: Halloween Quiz of 32 quiz cards Resource 3: Horror Story Planning Template Resource 4: Bats 2 week planning grid including learning objectives and ideas for a topic on Bats. Resource 5: Bats Factsheet. Resource 6: Halloween wordsearch x2