Our Halloween project ( Part 2 )

The story of our little pumpkin touched us so much that we decided to get a little bit involved with the pumpkins...
First, we watched a video on youtube about the cycle of life of pumpkins

and then we decided to '' cut to the chase''...

Carving a pumpkin is a relatively easy task so we decided to perform it in class.

Some photos from our project...

After we opened and emptied our pumpkin, I put the fibers an seeds into zip lock bags so as the students to touch them...

(  a big ''eeewwww'' was an expectable reaction)

We created our own pumpkins using orange paper, orange yarn for the pumpkin's fibers and the dried seeds we collected  from our pumpkin...

Happy Halloween!!!

Our Halloween project! ( Part 1 )

Halloween was really special this year as we decided with the students of B2 class to organize a super Halloween project with many different and interesting activities!

To get us in the mood we watched a presentation on Halloween, we discussed the traditions and supestitions behind this festival and  we talked about the symbols of Halloween, one of which is the pumpkin!

We read the very famous children's book '' The Ugly Pumpkin'' by Dave Horowitz. (Luckily, the book arrived on time from the U.S.A.)

You can order the book here.

The ugly pumpkin is actually the story of a pumpkin that wasn't loved or...bought by anyone during the Halloween because of its weird shape! The other characters of the book, among whom skeletons, witches and haunted trees sneered at ''him''  and as a result he felt alone and miserable.

Fortunately his luck changed when he bumped into a garden full of peculiar pumpkins just like him! This made him realize that he wasn't a pumpkin but a squash. In the end he finds many friends that love him just in time for Thanksgiving!

Our class tree!!!

The creation of our class tree was really challenging with the B1 and B2 classes!

The students drew and cut thick paper with their names written on. They stick it on the tree that I created an of course every student managed to recognize and read his/her own name and the names of his/her classmates...