Hallowe’en

Hallowe’en

by admin on 24/10/2012

This Hallowe’en Powerpoint presentation details some of the customs and traditions surrounding this celebration. It includes information on the origins of Hallowe’en, customs, games, food, dressing up and how the Irish took the Hallowe’en tradition to America. [click to continue…]

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Hallowe’en Table Quiz

by admin on 23/10/2012

Eight rounds of six questions, a tie-break round and answers to all questions on 145 Powerpoint slides. I’ve attempted to provide a variety of questions from different curricular areas with varying degrees of difficulty. Hopefully, there is a mixture of easy enough questions and some to challenge the better able pupils. The aim really is that pupils should be able to get a good few correct with the harder ones there to sort out winners. At the end of each round is a Hallowe’en Joke to get kids into festive mood. [click to continue…]

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Hallowe’en Arts Project

by admin on 20/10/2012

Hallowe'enGreat Visual Arts Lesson Plan, the aim of which is to get pupils to design and create an inventive, distinctive and original Halloween costume that they can wear into school at Hallowe’en. The emphasis is on creativity, so pupils must create the costume and not simply buy a commercial one. The lesson plan gives detailed instructions on Strands and skills, and also gives pupils criteria to bear in mind [click to continue…]

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Scoilnet Hallowe’en Themepage

by admin on 14/10/2012

Scoilnet have a selection of more than fifty themepages that cover many different curricular areas such as Italy, the Titanic, Ancient Egypt, Music in the classroom and many others. However, at this time of the year teachers will be very interested to visit the Hallowe’en Themepage to get inspiration for seasonal lessons . There are suggestions on Visual Arts lessons, the history of Hallowe’en, Hallowe’en food, the science of the skeleton, [click to continue…]

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Hallowe’en Door Signs 07

by admin on 28/09/2011

Hallowe'en Door Sign 07

Seasonal Door Signs for the classroom, created especially for split classes and multi-classes.

All files in .pdf format

Junior/Senior Infants (46.4KB) Download File

Rang I/II (46.4KB) Download File

Rang III/IV (46.4KB) Download File

Rang V/VI (46.4KB) Download File

Junior Infants – Rang II (46.4KB) Download File

Rang III – Rang VI (46.4KB) Download File

Rang I – Rang III (46.4KB) Download File

Rang IV – Rang VI (46.4KB) Download File

 

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Bones of the Human Body

May 16, 2011

Flashcards of the main bones of the human body. (.pdf files 182 KB) Download File

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Handy Ghosts

November 4, 2010

This is a simple art lesson using traced hands as Hallowe’en ghosts. (.doc file 31KB) Download File

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Seven Spiders Spinning

October 27, 2010

Seven baby Siberian snow spiders, frozen since the Ice Age, defrost on their way to a science lab. They wake up in a wood where the Tattletales girls club are planning for the school Halloween Horror Pageant. Their goal is to wipe the floor with their arch-enemies the Copycats (all boys, naturally). For the spiders [...]

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Póstaeir Oíche Shamhna

October 27, 2010

20 póstaeir priontáilte le pictiúir agus foclóir Oíche Shamhna. (comhad .pdf 4.47MB) Íoslódáil an Comhad

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Hallowe’en Posters

October 27, 2010

A set of 23 posters printed with Hallowe’en illustrations and vocabulary. (.pdf file 5.12MB) Download File

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Hallowe’en Silhouette

October 25, 2010

This visual arts lesson is most suited to be completed at Hallowe’en as it has that spooky feeling! (.doc file 37KB) Download File

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Who’s Looking?

October 25, 2010

This visual arts lesson is most suited to be completed at Hallowe’en as it has that spooky feeling! (.doc file 41KB) Download File

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Rann Oíche Shamhna

October 22, 2010

Rann simplí faoi Oíche Shamhna do pháistí sna bhunranganna ar cur i láthair Powerpoint. (comhad .ppt 595KB) Foinse: Ailse O’ Brien Íoslódáil an Comhad

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Never Say Boo to a Ghost

October 9, 2010

Never Say Boo To A Ghost and Other Haunting Rhymes John Foster and Korky Paul Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990 ISBN 0-19-276089-0

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Spine Tinglers

October 9, 2010

Spine Tinglers Chosen by Zenka and Ian Woodward Ladybird Books, Loughborough, 1983 ISBN 0-7214-0748-X

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