Halloween puede ser una época interesante y divertida del curso escolar. Los niños disfrutan disfrazándose y recogiendo dulces de amigos y vecinos. Sin embargo, para los niños más pequeños, Halloween pudiera ser atemorizante y confuso. Los profesores debemos de estar atentos a los posibles miedos y a la ansiedad que algunos niños pudieran tener, pues para algunos de ellos, el primer contacto de esta celebración pudiera ser en la escuela. Por lo tanto, al introducir Halloween en nuestras lecciones debe de hacerse de una manera positiva y no amenazante.
A los niños les encanta bailar y cantar, así que una manera estupenda de enseñarles algo sobre Halloween es a través de rimas, poemas y canciones y mucho mejor si las melodías que empleamos son tradicionales y conocidas.
Algunos de los objetivos que pretendemos conseguir son:
- Presentar a los niños una fiesta típica anglosajona.
- Proporcionar un contexto propicio para recordar y practicar el lenguaje y consolidar las técnicas de gestión del aula y del lenguaje usado hasta ahora.
- Brindar una experiencia cultural fuera de las normales de los alumnos.
- Reforzar el concepto del número y contar jugando a juegos numéricos en los que se pueda ver fácilmente la correspondencia entre objetos y números hablados.
- Ayudar a los niños a producir materiales artísticos atractivos para exhibirlos.
En cuanto a los criterios principales de evaluación, los niños deberían:
- Mostrar curiosidad y respeto hacia las tradiciones culturales de los demás.
- Mostrar una mayor confianza con todo el lenguaje y los procedimientos utilizados hasta ahora.
- Contar del 1 al 5 tanto hacia adelante como hacia atrás con ayuda visual.
- Cuidar y enorgullecerse del trabajo creativo propio.
Trick or treat.. (Melody: “Trick or Treat”)
Sing Along 1
Trick or treat.
Smell my feet.
Trick or treat.
Smell my feet.
Or give me something
Good to eat!
Or give me something
Good to eat!
(Esta canción está tomada de mi libro “Learning English and Music with Songs and Games” utiliza la música es original de Isabel M. Miralles).
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Five funny pumpkins (Melody: “Five Funny Pumpkins”)
Sing Along 2
Five funny pumkins standing in a row
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, in a row
He’s got eyes, a mouth and a nose
It’s Halloween
So, off he goes. Bye-bye.
Four funny pumpkins standing in a row
1, 2, 3, 4, shh in a row
He’s got eyes, a mouth and a nose
It’s Halloween
So, off he goes. Bye-bye.
Three funny pumpkins standing in a row
1, 2, 3, shh, shh in a row
He’s got eyes, a mouth and a nose
It’s Halloween
So, off he goes. Bye-bye.
Two funny pumpkins standing in a row
1, 2, shh, shh, shh in a row
He’s got eyes, a mouth and a nose
It’s Halloween
So, off he goes. Bye-bye.
One funny pumpkins standing in a row
1, shh, shh, shh, shh in a row
He’s got eyes, a mouth and a nose
It’s Halloween
So, off he goes. Bye-bye.
(Esta canción la cantan mis alumnos de 5 años con la música que viene en el CD de Patch 2)
Five little pumpkins V2
Sing Along 3
Five little pumpkins
sitting on a gate
The first one said,
Oh my, its getting late!
The second one said,
There are witches in the air!
The third one said,
But we don’t care.
We don’t care.
They might be scary
But we don’t care.
Number four said,
Run! Let’s run!
The fifth one said,
I’m ready for some fun!
Oooo went the wind
And out went the light
And five little pumpkins
Went rolling out of site.
Ghosts and goblins (Melody: “Frere Jacques”)
Sing Along 4
Ghosts and goblins
Ghosts and goblins
Witches too,
Witches too,
All our trick or treating,
All our trick or treating,
Can’t scare you!
Can’t scare you!
A little Baby Ghost (Melody: “The Eensy, Weensy Spider”)
Sing Along 5
A little baby ghost went out one Halloween.
Along came a witch that the ghost had never seen!
But, mommy ghost came flying to see what made him cry…
And the witch that scared her baby went flying off so high!
Pumpkin, pumpkin (Melody: ”Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”)
Sing Along 6:
Pumpkin pumpkin on the ground
How’d you get so big and round
Planted as a seed so small
Now you are a great big ball
Pumpkin pumpkin on the ground
How’d you get so big and round
My monster Frankenstein, (Melody: «Oh My Darling, Clementine «)
Sing Along 7
Sing Along 7 (bis)
Sing With me
In the grave yard,
In the grave yard,
When the moon begins to shine,
There’s a doctor, crazy doctor,
and his monster Frankenstein.
Oh, my monster,
oh, my monster,
oh, my monster Frankenstein,
you are very, very scary, don’t come
near me Frankenstein.
Three black cats (Melody «Three blind mice «)
Sing Along 8:
Three black cats, three black cats,
In black hats, in black hats,
They all jumped into the Halloween brew.
They teased the ghosts & the goblins too!
Have you ever seen such a Hullabaloo??
On Halloween!
Halloween Surprise (Melody: “Sing a Song of Sixpence”)
First you take a pumpkin
Big and fat and round
Then you cut the top off
That will make a hat
Then you hollow out the
Nose and mouth and eyes
Now you have a Jack-O-Lantern
Halloween Surprise!
Ghost Chant (Para recitar muy lentamente)
Ghost so scary.
Ghost so white
Don’t scare (child’s name)! (Shout the name.)
On Halloween night.
(cada vez se dice un nombre distinto en un tono de voz fantasmagórico)
One Little, Two little… (Melody: «One little, two little, Three little Indians»)
One little, two little, three little pumpkins,
Four little, five little, six little pumpkins,
Seven little, eight little, Nine little pumpkins,
All for Halloween night.
Let’s get dad to carve the pumpkin,
Let’s get mom to carve the pumpkin,
Let’s all go to carve the pumpkin,
Just for Halloween night.
Don’t eat the seeds until mom cooks them,
Don’t eat the seeds until dad cooks them,
Don’t eat the seeds until we cook them,
Then they’ll taste just right.
Here comes the trick-or-treats dressed up,
Here comes the trick-or-treats dressed up,
Here comes the trick-or-treats dressed up,
Yes, It’s Halloween night!
Halloween is here (Melody: «Farmer in the Dell»)
Oh, Halloween is here!
Oh, Halloween is here!
With costumes on we’ll walk around
We’ll knock on doors all over town,
When Halloween is here!
Hoo! (Melody: «Farmer in the Dell»)
The owl goes Hoo
The owl goes Hoo
Hi ho on Halloween the owl goes Hoo
The ghost goes Boo
The ghost goes Boo
Hi ho on Halloween the ghost goes Boo
(Se pueden inventor otros versos)
Jack-o-lanterns (Melody: «Twinkle, Twinkle»)
Halloween has come at last.
Jack-o-lanterns and black cats.
Funny faces round about.
People laugh and people shout.
The moon shines bright and cats meow.
Meow, meow, meow, meow.
We are Pumpkins Big and Round (Melody: «Mary Had a Little Lamb»)
We are pumpkins big and round, big and round, big and round;
We are pumpkins big and round, sitting on the ground.
See our great big shiny eyes, shiny eyes, shiny eyes;
See our great big shiny eyes, looking right at you.
See our great big laughing mouth, laughing mouth, laughing mouth,
See our great big laughing mouth, smiling right at you.
Sing a Song of Halloween (Melody: «Sing a Song of Sixpence»)
Sing a song of Halloween
What a Scary night,
Ghosts and bats and big black cats,
Give us all a fright
Shinning jolly Jack-O-Lanterns
Fill our hearts with fun,
But if the black cat comes along
We’ll all run!
Once I had a pumpkin (Melody: «Did You Ever See a Lassie?»)
Once I had a pumpkin, a pumpkin, a pumpkin,
Once I had a pumpkin, with no face at all.
With no eyes and no nose, and no mouth and no teeth.
Once I had a pumpkin with no face at all.
So I made a jack-o-lantern, a jack-o-lantern, a jack-o-lantern,
So I made a jack-o-lantern, with a big funny face.
With big eyes and a big nose, and a big mouth with big teeth.
So I made a jack-o-lantern with a big funny face.
Black Cat (Melody: «Mary Had a Little Lamb»)
We saw a black cat, black cat, black cat.
We saw a black cat on Halloween.
He was stretching his paws, his paws, his paws.
He was stretching his paws on Halloween.
Trick or Treating (Melody: «Frère Jacques»)
Trick or treating, trick or treating.
BOO, BOO, BOO
BOO, BOO, BOO
Trick or treating, trick or treating.
I scare you I scare you
Here Comes Halloween (Melody: «Here comes Santa Claus»)
Here comes Halloween
Here comes Halloween
Black cats on the prowl
Ghosts to scare you
Goblins dare you
When you turn around
Witches flying over rooftops
Watching all in view
You’d better hide – so they won’ get
To cast a spell on you
Halloween Song (Melody: «I Love to Go A Wandering»)
I love to go trick or treating
on Halloween night.
And as I go I always know
the safety rules for me!
Hal-lo-ween, Hal-lo-ween, Hal-lo-ween,
Hal-lo-weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen,
Hal-lo-ween, Hal-lo-ween,
Halloween is lots of fun.
(Hal-lo-weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen should be sung like a witch)
I know I must go with an adult
and wear light colored clothes.
My parents always check my bag
before I begin to eat.
(Chorus)
The Monsters are so loud (Melody: «When Johnny Comes Marching Home»)
The monsters stomp around the house,
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The monsters stomp around the house,
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The monsters stomp around the house,
Their brothers and sisters send them out
And they stomp some more outside around the house.
The monsters yell around the house,
Eeeeeeh! Eeeeeeh!
The monsters yell around the house,
Eeeeeeh! Eeeeeeh!
The monsters yell around the house,
Their brothers and sisters send them out
And they yell some more outside around the house.
The Great Pumpkin (Melody: «Did You Ever See a Lassie?»)
I am the great pumpkin, great pumpkin, great pumpkin.
I am the great pumpkin. Come dance with me.
For you friends are my friends & my friends are your friends.
I am the great pumpkin. Come dance with me.
Pumpkin Man (Melody: «The Muffin Man»)
Have you seen the pumpkin man,
The pumpkin man, the pumpkin man,
Have you seen the pumpkin man,
Who lives in pumpkin patch?
Have you seen the old black witch,
The old black witch, the old black witch,
Have you seen the old black witch,
Who lives in the haunted house?
Have you seen the scary ghost,
The scary ghost, the scary ghost,
Have you seen the scary ghost,
Who lives in the old ghost town?
You are my monster (Melody: «You Are My Sunshine»)
You are my monster,
My only monster.
You make me happy,
When I am sad.
You never know dear,
How much I love you.
Please don’t take
My monster away!
Did You Ever See A Goblin? (Melody: «Did you ever see a Lassie?»)
Did you ever see a goblin, a goblin, a goblin?
Did you ever see a goblin, stomp this way or that?
Stomp this way or that way,
Or this way or that way,
Did you ever see a goblin Stomp this way or that?
Otros posibles versos:
Did you ever see a fairy… / Dance this way or that?
Did you ever see an old witch… / Fly this way or that?
Did you ever see a black cat… / Pounce this way or that
Did you ever see a night owl… / Sleep this way or that?
Did you ever see a spider… / Crawl this way or that?
Did you ever see a scarecrow… / Lean this way or that?
Did you ever see a pumpkin…. / Roll this way or that?
Moans, Groans and Skeleton Bones (Melody: «Pop goes the Weasel»)
Moans and groans and skeleton bones,
It’s Halloween tonight,
Ssssh! I fear a ghost is near,
Boo! what a fright!
Up the street we’ll trick or treat
And dance beneath the moonlight!
We’ll beware if there’s a scare,
Boo! what a fright!
Witches, cats and flapping bats
Are «boo»-tiful tonight.
Never fear if goblins appear,
Boo! what a fright!
Up the street we’ll trick or treat
And dance beneath the moonlight!
We’ll beware if there’s a scare,
Boo! What a fright!
Witches Come on Halloween (Sung to: «Camptown Races»)
Witches come on Halloween,
Heh-heh, heh,heh
Watch out now or you might scream
Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh!
Pumpkins shining bright,
With their candlelight.
Ghosts and Goblins coming too,
Watching out for you – BOO!!!
Walk in the Dark (Melody: «Pop Goes the Weasel»)
Sometimes I like to walk in the dark
I like to shout and scream.
I walk up behind somebody I know
BOO its Halloween
Jack-O-Lantern (Melody: «Frère Jacques”)
Jack-o-lantern, jack-o-lantern
See the light: oh so bright
Shining in the night time
Shining in the night time
What a fright! What a fright!
The Haunted House (Melody: «The Wheels On The Bus»)
The ghost in the house goes «Boo! Boo! Boo!»
«Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo!»
The ghost in the house goes «Boo! Boo! Boo!»
On Halloween.
The mice in the house go «Squeak, squeak, squeak.»
«Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak.»
The mice in the house go «Squeak, squeak, squeak.»
On Halloween.
The cats in the house go «Meow, meow, meow.»
«Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow».
The cats in the house go «Meow, meow, meow.»
On Halloween.
I’m A Little Pumpkin (Melody: «I’m A Little Teapot»)
I’m a little pumpkin short and stout (squat down with hands on hips)
Here are my eyes and here is my mouth (point to eyes and mouth)
When it’s Halloween and you are out, (point to audience)
Just lift my lid and hear me shout. (pretend to lift lid)
BOO! (jump up and shout boo)
Mr. Pumpkin (Melody: «Where is thumkin»)
Mr. Pumpkin, Mr. Pumpkin,
Eyes so round, eyes so round
Halloween is coming, Halloween is coming
To my town, to my town.