Halloween

Key language

Focus language Main receptive language Classroom language

witch girls That’s right!

owl boys Point to …
monster It’s (now) Halloween. Match …
What’s this? Let’s sing …
Recycled language Who’s this? Open/Close your eyes.
Yes! / No! Be very quiet!
Hello* growl Come with me.
Bye-bye* wake up Sit down quietly.
two* Listen to the witches scream!
eyes* The moon/sun is up.
Mummy* Fly in the sky.
Daddy* Sing all night.
sister* Go to sleep.
brother* The owl’s got two eyes.
* Words recycled from Cheeky Monkey 1

Key language learning aims

• Responding to new items of vocabulary via mime, visual recognition, gesture, etc
• Revising vocabulary, phrases and classroom language from earlier units
• Singing and acting out a song
• Using a Press out to practise new vocabulary

Main criteria for evaluation

Children should:
• Start to identify the new Halloween vocabulary
• Recognise with more confidence the revised vocabulary and expressions
• Respond appropriately to instructions
• Participate in games and songs

Lesson 1 Lesson 2

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 Halloween Lesson 1
Hello! It’s Halloween!
Hello! Hello! It’s Halloween!
Hello! Hello! It’s Halloween!
Hello! Hello! It’s Halloween!
Happy Halloween!

2 Introduce witch, owl and monster

• Talk to the children about Halloween. Ask them if
they dress up and go trick or treating.
• Say What can you dress up as at Halloween? Show
the witch flashcard and say witch. Encourage the
children to join in. Repeat with owl and monster.

3 Play Lucky dip! with Halloween

• Choose a child to play the game using The one
Lesson focus: Introducing Halloween vocabulary banana, two banana chant. (See Teacher talk, pages
Focus language: witch, owl, monster  Recycled: Hello, 15–16.) Offer the witch’s hat to the child. Encourage
Bye-bye, Mummy, Daddy, sister, brother them to take out one of the flashcards and show it to
Main receptive language: girls, boys, It’s Halloween, the class. Say What’s this? Encourage the child to say
What can you dress up as? What’s this? That’s right! (owl). If the child answers correctly, say That’s right!
Who’s this? Listen to the …, growl (Owl)! Play the game with other children and repeat
Classroom language: Be very quiet! Point to …, Match until all the flashcards have been revealed.
…
If you are short of time, you can leave out Activity 3.
Main activities:
• Sing Hello! It’s Halloween!
• Introduce witch, owl and monster 4 Sing It’s Halloween (CD2 track 26)
• Sing It’s Halloween
• Say Let’s sing It’s Halloween. Play the CD. Sing the
• Do the worksheet
• Sing The bye-bye song 1 song and do the actions. Encourage the children to join
in.
Materials you need: CD, puppet, a witch’s hat or bag,
witch, owl and monster flashcards, Pupil’s Books,
pencils It’s Halloween
Getting ready: Put a witch’s hat on the Cheeky Witch, owl, monster.
puppet for Activity 1. Put the witch, owl and monster It’s Halloween!
flashcards in a witch’s hat or bag for Activity 3. Witch, owl, monster.
It’s Halloween!
Listen to the witch (Cup your hand round your ear.)
Go hee, hee, hee! (Mime flying on a broomstick.)
Circle time
Listen to the owl (Cup your hand round your ear.)
Go hoo, hoo, hoo! (Flap your arms.)
1 Sing Hello! It’s Halloween! (CD2 track 25)
• Put on the Cheeky puppet wearing his witch’s hat. Listen to the monster (Cup your hand round your ear.)
Say Look at Cheeky. It’s Halloween! Go growl, growl, growl! (Mime being a monster.)
• Get Cheeky to wave and say Hello! Encourage the Witch, owl, monster.
children to wave to Cheeky. It’s Halloween!
• Get Cheeky to point to the girls and say Hello, girls! Witch, owl, monster.
Repeat for the boys, saying Hello, boys! It’s Halloween!
• Play the CD. Sing the song and do the actions.
Encourage the children to join in. Move Cheeky
as if he’s also singing along.

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 Transition time Extra activities
5 Say the Halloween transition chant (CD2 1 Play Who’s the witch? with flashcards
track 27) • Shuffle the Mummy, Daddy and Brother flashcards
• Put your finger to your lips and say Shh! Be very and lay them in the circle face down. Put the witch,
quiet! Say the chant and do the actions while leading owl and monster flashcards face up on top of each one.
the children to their tables. Encourage them to join in. Say Who’s the witch? Encourage the children to guess
(See Teacher talk, pages 15–16.) and say (Daddy.) Turn over the card and, if they guess
correctly, say That’s right! It’s (Daddy). If they guess
Halloween transition chant incorrectly, shuffle the cards again and continue the
game.
Little owls, (Gesture ‘come here’.)
Little owls, (Gesture ‘come here’.)
2 Play Pictionary with Halloween characters
Come with me. (Tipote to the table.)
• Slowly draw a monster on the board, stopping at
Sit down, sit down, (Gesture ‘sit down’.)
intervals to say What’s this? Encourage the children
Sit down quietly. (Sit down.)
to say monster. If the children guess correctly, say
Shh! Shh! (Put your finger to your lips.)
That’s right! Monster! Repeat with owl and witch.

Table time 3 Play Stick the hat on the witch

• Draw a picture of a witch with no hat on the board.
6 Match the family to the Halloween Make a witch’s hat out of paper and put Blu-Tack™
costumes (Pupil’s Book p77) on the back of it. Choose a child to play the game
• Hand out the pencils and the Pupil’s Books or the using The one banana, two banana chant. (See
individual worksheets. Teacher talk, pages 15–16.) Blindfold the child and
• Point to Daddy and say Who’s this? Encourage the turn them around three times, counting out loud with
children to say Daddy. Repeat with Mummy, Sister the children. Encourage the child to stick the hat on
and Brother. the witch. Mark the place with their initials and then
• Say Point to the witch and encourage the children to repeat with other children.
point to the witch. Repeat with big monster, owl and
small monster.
• Hold up a pencil and say Match Daddy. Demonstrate
this by tracing a line with your finger from Daddy to
the big monster. Encourage the children to match the
family to the Halloween costumes.

7 Listen to It’s Halloween and point to the

Halloween costumes on the worksheet
(CD2 track 26)
• Say Let’s sing It’s Halloween. Play the CD. Sing
the song and point to the witch, owl and monster.
Encourage the children to join in. (See Activity 4
for the tapescript.)

8 Sing The bye-bye song 1 (CD1 track 6)

• Put on the Cheeky puppet. Get Cheeky to wave and
say Bye-bye! Encourage the children to wave and say
Bye-bye! to Cheeky.
• Play the CD. Sing the song and do the actions.
Encourage the children to join in. Move Cheeky as if
he’s also singing along. (See Cheeky’s friends Lesson
1 Activity 10 for the tapescript.)

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 Halloween Lesson 2
2 Play Flashcard fan with Halloween
flashcards
• Shuffle the witch, owl and monster flashcards. Take
the owl flashcard and hold it against your chest so the
children can’t see what it is. Fan it back and forth,
giving the children a glimpse of the flashcard and
say What’s this? Encourage the children to say owl.
Repeat with witch and monster.

3 Sing It’s Halloween with flashcards (CD2

track 26)
• Stick the witch, owl and monster flashcards on
different walls of the classroom. Say Let’s sing it’s
Halloween. Play the CD. Sing the song, point to the
flashcards and do the actions. Encourage the children
Lesson focus: Singing the song with the Press out to join in. (See Lesson 1 Activity 4 for the tapescript.)
Focus language: witch, owl, monster  Recycled: Hello,
Bye-bye, two, eyes 4 Have a Halloween parade
Main receptive language: girls, boys, What’s this? Yes, • Tell the children that they should choose to be a witch,
No, Wake up, Listen to, scream, The moon/sun is up, an owl or a monster without telling you.
Fly in the sky, Sing all night, Go to sleep, The owl’s got • Play some music from the CD and encourage the
two eyes children to walk around the class miming their
Classroom language: Let’s sing …, Be very quiet! Sit Halloween character.
down quietly, Open/Close your eyes • Stop the CD. Go around guessing who some of them
Main activities: are. Say An owl? And encourage the children to
• Sing Hello! It’s Halloween! say Yes! or No! Repeat the game and ask different
• Sing Little owl children.
• Make the Press out • If the children get overexcited, use the Calm down
• Sing the song with the Press out chant to get their attention.
• Sing The bye-bye song 1
Materials you need: CD, puppet, witch, owl and If you are short of time, you can leave out Activity 4.
monster flashcards, Halloween Press out
Getting ready: Put a witch’s hat on the Cheeky puppet 5 Sing Little owl (CD2 track 28)
for Activity 1. • Hold up the owl flashcard and say Let’s sing Little
owl. Play the CD. Sing the song and do the actions.
Encourage the children to join in.
Circle time
Little owl
1 Sing Hello! It’s Halloween (CD2 track 25) Wake up little owl. (Mime waking up.)
• Put on the Cheeky puppet wearing his witch’s hat. It’s now Halloween.
Say Look at Cheeky. He’s a witch! Open your eyes and (Open your eyes wide.)
• Get Cheeky to wave and say Hello! Encourage the Listen to the witches scream! (Cup your hand round
children to wave to Cheeky. your ear.)
• Get Cheeky to point to the girls and say Hello, girls! The moon is up. (Draw a moon in the air.)
Repeat for the boys, saying Hello, boys! You’re an owl in the night. (Flap your arms.)
• Play the CD. Sing the song and do the actions. Fly in the sky. (Mime flying.)
Encourage the children to join in. Move Cheeky as if And sing all night. (Mime singing.)
he’s also singing along. (See Lesson 1 Activity 1 for
Close your eyes little owl (Close your eyes.)
the tapescript.)
And go to sleep. (Mime sleeping.)
The sun is up. (Draw a sun in the air.)
Bye-bye Halloween! (Wave.)

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 Transition time Extra activities
6 Say the Halloween transition chant (CD2 1 Draw Halloween pictures
track 27) • Hand out the crayons and a sheet of paper for every
• Put your finger to your lips and say Shh! Be very child. Tell them to choose an owl, witch or monster.
quiet! Say the chant and do the actions while leading Encourage them to draw their Halloween character
the children to their tables. Encourage them to join in. and then colour it in. Stick their finished pictures
(See Teacher talk, pages 15–16.) on the walls. Put all the owls together, the monsters
together, etc.
7 Make an owl (Press out Halloween)
• Hand out the Press outs. Demonstrate how to remove 2 Sing It’s Halloween (CD2 track 26)
the Press out. Encourage the children to copy. • Split the class into three groups: owls, monsters and
• Say Look! The owl’s got two eyes! Demonstrate how witches. Say Let’s sing It’s Halloween. Play the
to slot the card with the eyes through the holes on the CD. Sing the song and encourage the groups to sing
owl. Encourage the children to copy. their verses. They should all sing the chorus at the
• Show the owl with closed eyes and say Open your beginning and the end. (See Lesson 1 Activity 4 for
eyes. Pull the card so that the owl opens his eyes. the tapescript.)
Encourage the children to join in. Repeat with Close
your eyes. 3 Play You’re an owl
• When the children are confident, speed up the • If possible, put on a witch’s hat and hold a wand.
instructions. • Point the wand at one of the children. Say
Abracadabra! You’re an owl. Encourage the
8 Sing Little owl with the Press out (CD2 child to mime being an owl.
track 28) • Repeat with monster and witch. (You may also choose
• Say Let’s sing Little owl. Play the CD. Sing the song other animals they know, e.g. cat, dog, frog, etc.)
and show the Press out with eyes awake and asleep.
Encourage the children to join in. (See Activity 5 for
the tapescript.)

9 Sing The bye-bye song 1 (CD1 track 6)

• Put on the Cheeky puppet. Get Cheeky to wave and
say Bye-bye! Encourage the children to wave and say
Bye-bye! to Cheeky.
• Play the CD. Sing the song and do the actions.
Encourage the children to join in. Move Cheeky as if
he’s also singing along. (See Cheeky’s friends Lesson
1 Activity 10 for the tapescript.)

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