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El dia de los Muertos
Our kids are into Halloween BIG TIME, so I decided to cash is on this and link it to a festival which is very important in Mexico. The first lesson has been watching video of how it is celebrated in Oaxaca, followed by learning Halloween words and a song from Espanol Espanol with extension of researching how it is celebrated. I did a smartnotebook to go with this.
The next lesson has been taking it one step further, as the dead are always represented as skeletons doing what they did in life, for example a dead me would probably be shown beavering away on a computer with an aeroplane in the background. So for this lesson the kids will think about what sums them up and then make a skeleton to match. There is also the chance to introduce body parts while skeleton building. I am teaching this as to the 4's who have been doing skeletons so it links nicely there. Not yet decided as to whether we will learn Head Shoulders Knees and Toes or listen for Me gusta in the Manu Chao song. Think this will definitely be a see what I feel like in the morning one.
Barbara
Just having a minor panic as to how to upload a notebook file but will persevere! Fingers crossed
day of the dead.notebook
halloween.notebook
The next lesson has been taking it one step further, as the dead are always represented as skeletons doing what they did in life, for example a dead me would probably be shown beavering away on a computer with an aeroplane in the background. So for this lesson the kids will think about what sums them up and then make a skeleton to match. There is also the chance to introduce body parts while skeleton building. I am teaching this as to the 4's who have been doing skeletons so it links nicely there. Not yet decided as to whether we will learn Head Shoulders Knees and Toes or listen for Me gusta in the Manu Chao song. Think this will definitely be a see what I feel like in the morning one.
Barbara
Just having a minor panic as to how to upload a notebook file but will persevere! Fingers crossed
day of the dead.notebook
halloween.notebook
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Comment by Jo Rhys-Jones on October 22, 2008 at 23:12 -
Great ideas - love the skeletons representing what they were in life - really psche/re links there too.
If you want to upload the notebook file here it should work by clicking on the little piece of paper icon (as if you were uploading a word doc - you get a pop-up box asking you to 'browse' for the file as if you were attaching a file to an email, find it and double click) - you can get the icon in the comment box too if you don't want to go back and 'edit' your blog.
Jo x
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Comment by Barbara Jones on October 22, 2008 at 23:38 -
Halloween is the first lesson and Day of the dead the second.
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Comment by Lisa Stevens on October 23, 2008 at 16:38 -
Hi Barbara
there is a big long list of stuff for Día de los Muertos in the comments on Jo's post last year about Halloween - http://primarymfl.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=738935%3ABlogPost%... - or people can check out my del.icio.us bookmarks - http://delicious.com/lisibo/dia_de_los_muertos
Lisaxx
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Comment by Helen on October 24, 2008 at 21:49 -
Well my skeleton would have to include my laptop, running and wine! Not necessarily in that order! Thanks for these Barbara they are great! Thanks for sharing- Hx
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Comment by Barbara Jones on October 24, 2008 at 22:08
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Funnily enough mine has a glass of red, a laptop and is sat in an airport and the kids sussed 2 out of 3 ;-)
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