Key Stage Two Special Topics Halloween

Discover classroom teaching resources to develop and practise skills in all curriculum areas for Key Stage Two to celebrate and decorate the classroom for Halloween

Pumpkins

Select powerful vocabulary to use in poetry containing similes that can describe Halloween pumpkins

Halloween Party Games

Calculate items needed to play games at a Halloween party using standard written methods of columnar addition

Halloween Costumes

Calculate the cost of pairs of costumes for a Halloween party using standard written methods to add numbers with two decimal places

Wizard’s Beard

Shape and combine paper and other materials to produce a picture decoration of a Halloween character

Haunted Houses

Read and answer comprehension questions about figurative language used in a classic poem about a haunted house

Spooky Night

Select and use descriptive language in poetry to describe spooky sights and shadows that might be seen in a bedroom at night during Halloween

Halloween Show

Review and redraft poems describing spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween to use in a performance to the class

Halloween Night

Select and use descriptive vocabulary in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds experienced on Halloween night

Spooky Sounds

Practise using powerful adjectives to describe some of the spooky sounds that might be heard in a bedroom at night

Spooky Shadows

Select and use descriptive vocabulary to describe shadows seen in a bedroom at nighttime

Nighttime

Explore and suggest changes to descriptive vocabulary used in a poem to describe spooky sights and sounds during the night