Dancing Skeleton Videos

Well... another Halloween has come and gone! But now we get to get ready for Thanksgiving! Over the next month in French and Spanish class, we will begin learning about Food and Drink. We will learn how to say "I like..., I don't like" as it relates to Thanksgiving foods. We also have some fun turkey crafts in store that will reinforce counting, colors and more! Stay tuned!

I couldn't let a Halloween pass us by without posting one of my favorite Halloween videos in French / Spanish. The words are sung quickly, but this is a great video to talk about counting to twelve and telling time. Pause the video and practice counting the skeletons with your little ones!

French Version:

Spanish Version:

Stiles Point Elementary

Hola! The kids had a great time yesterday in Spanish class at Stiles Point! They talked about pumpkins, body parts, played games and of course had el dulce! 

Here is a picture of the class with their new teacher, Ms. Krystie! 

Spanish class at Grace Little School

Here are a few pictures of the students at Grace Little School showing off their latest activity they did in Spanish class this week! Notice that the students are wearing their new WL4K t-shirts! All students in our classes receive a t-shirt... If you have not gotten a shirt or cd, please email me at: 

Worldlanguages4kids@gmail.com

O'Quinn James Island

Senora Maria's students are having a great time learning the words for the parts of the face is Spanish class! Here, they are making their own pumpkin faces, practicing saying the words. 

French Halloween Vocabulary

French Halloween Vocabulary & Phrases

On this page you will find a complete list of French Halloween vocabulary words. While the holiday is not traditionally celebrated in France, it’s become a very popular holiday in Quebec, the French-speaking province in Canada. To say Halloween in French you simply say “l’Halloween” as there is no official translation. Also, to say “Trick Or Treat” (the line used by kids when asking for candy at peoples’ front doors) young kids in Quebec say, “Bonbons s’il-vous-plaît“, which means, “Candy, please!” In the list below you’ll also find various words for different kinds of costumes (“les déguisements d’Halloween” including the witch (la sorcière) and ghost (le fantôme).

l’Halloween Halloween	le déguisement d’Halloween Halloween costume	joyeux Halloween Happy Halloween!
le 31 octobre October 31 (night of Halloween every year)	l’automne fall/autumn	le bonbon candy
la citrouille pumpkin	passer de maison en maison pour récolter des bonbons (going from house to house to get candy, trick-or-treating)	la citrouille d’Halloween/le Jack à la lanterne jack-o’-lantern
le fantôme ghost/fantom	le monstre monster	le zombie zombie
le pirate pirate	la Toussaint All Saints Day	la sorcière witch
le vampire vampire	farce ou friandise! trick or treat!	le masque mask
l’araignée (f) spider	la maison hantée haunted house	le cimetière cemetary
le diable devil	le épouvantail scarecrow	hanter to haunt
le lutin goblin	le squelette skeleton	la momie mummy
Bonbons s’il-vous-plaît trick or treat! (used in Quebec)	la lune entière full moon	le balai broom

Spanish Halloween Vocabulary Activites

Spanish Halloween Vocabulary Activities

From the blog: http://www.spanishplayground.net

Halloween is more than candy and costumes. It is also a wonderful opportunity to practice all kinds of fun vocabulary associated with night, fall, fantasy and fairy tales. Here are some Spanish Halloween vocabulary resources and activities. There is also a printable list of Halloween vocabulary to use as a reference.

Halloween Cookie Cutter Painting
This Halloween painting activity is from All For The Boys. All you need is paper, paint and Halloween cookies cutters. The vocabulary that you practice will depend on your cutters, but in our house it wasfantasma, calabaza, sombrero de bruja, gato, and murciélago. This is also a great activity for practicing colors. When you are done, be sure to hang your picture where you can see it and talk about the different shapes. Of course, you can make cookies on another day. Cutting out cookies is another great language activity!

Halloween Yoga
Kids Yoga Stories has a sequence of yoga poses for Halloween with descriptions of each pose. Yoga is great for learning Spanish because kids are acting out the word and that helps reinforce the meaning. Also, movement enhances language acquisition. Use pictures or props as a visual reference for the different poses – this will set a wonderfully spooky mood!

You can read more about yoga and Spanish here. Use these words for the poses in the Halloween sequence:
el fantasma – ghost
el esqueleto – skeleton
la luna – moon
el árbol torcido – crooked tree
la bruja en una escoba – witch on a broom
el murciélago – bat
la araña – spider
la casa embrujada – haunted house
el gato – cat
el buho – owl
la calabaza – pumpkin

Halloween Sensory Bin
This Halloween sensory bin from Sugar Aunts is made with water beads and lots of little Halloween items from around the house. As you play, be sure to talk about all the creepy things you see and touch!

Halloween Charades
It is tons of fun to act out Halloween related words and phrases. You can draw picture cards or if your kids can read, you can write out the words of the clue. Buggy and Buddy has Halloween cards with pictures and you can cut off the English words. You can write clues like these:
caminar como Frankenstein
una bruja en una escoba
un murciélago
un hombre lobo
un vampiro
truco o trato
comer caramelos
disfrazarse
un fantasma
caminar como araña
ponerse una máscara
una momia
caminar por una casa embrujada

To make charades easier, you can include category like animals, scary things and places, body parts, and actions.

Halloween Song – Cinco Calabazas
Spanish Together has a fun song and video of Cinco Calabazas. This is great to sing for Halloween!

Printable Halloween Games
Arasaac has two printable games with lots of Spanish Halloween vocabulary. The first is a Halloween Juego de la oca. The other is a Halloween Bingo game. For me, the PDFs printed better than the Word documents.

Printable Spanish Halloween Vocabulary

Spanish Halloween Vocabulary List

These are the words on the printable vocabulary list:

bat – el murciélago
black cat – el gato negro
blood – la sangre
bones – los huesos
broom – la escoba
bug – el insecto
candy – los caramelos
cat – el gato
cemetery – el cementerio
coffin – el ataúd
corpse – el cadáver
crooked tree – el árbol torcido
costume – el disfraz
crow – el cuervo
darkness – la oscuridad
dead – muerto
Dracula – Drácula
dress up -  disfrazarse
fangs – los colmillos
fingernails – las uñas
Frankenstein – Frankenstein
full moon – la luna llena
ghost – el fantasma
hat – sombrero
haunted house – casa embrujada
mask – la máscara
monster – el monstruo
moon – la luna
moonlight – la luz de luna
mummy – la momia
night – la noche
October – octubre
orange – anaranjado
owl – el búho
party – la fiesta
potion – la poción
pumpkin – la calabaza
rat – la rata
scarecrow – el espantapájaros
shadow – la sombra
skeleton – el esqueleto
skull – la calavera
snake – la serpiente
spider – la araña
spider web – la telaraña
toad – el sapo
trick or treat – truco o trato
vampire – el vampiro
werewolf – el hombre lobo
witch – la bruja
zombie – el zombi

Spanish Halloween Video

Here is a video with a lot of Halloween Vocabulary for your little ones in Spanish!

"Los Monstruos"
by: Music with Sara
Artwork by: Kristine Cruz-Munda
Animation by: Emmanuel L. Munda
copyright 2012: Music with Sara and D-1 Productions

http://www.musicwithsara.com
http://www.ahappymommy.com

download your copy of "Los Monstruos" here
http://musicwithsara.bandcamp.com/

Turn on Close Caption to see lyrics on screen.

Lyrics:
Los monstruos todos salen en Halloween 
Halloween Halloween
Los monstruos todos salen en Halloween 
¡uuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Un murcielago
¡Bam! Vampiro
una araña
una bruja
un monstruo feo
un fantasma
salen .... en Halloween

The monsters all come out on Halloween 
Halloween Halloween
The monsters all come out on Halloween 
ooohhhh

A creepy bat
Bam! Vampire
scary spider
A flying witch
A big big monster
A spooky ghost
They all come out 
on Halloween

Los monstruos todos salen en Halloween
Halloween Halloween
Los monstruos todos salen en Halloween 
¡uuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Un murcielago
¡Bam! Vampiro
una araña
una bruja
un monstruo feo
un fantasma
salen .... en Halloween

Los monstruos todos salen en Halloween 
Halloween Halloween
Los monstruos todos salen en Halloween 
¡uuuuuuuuuuuuu!

French Halloween Videos

Here is a cute video that review Halloween Vocabulary in French!

Here are some other cute songs that I found that sing about Halloween in French.. Can you identify the Halloween vocab taught in the previous video?

And here is a French song from LCF Clubs Babelzone!http://www.lcfclubs.com/babelzonenew 'Pour faire une soupe' about making vegetable soup - with creepy Halloween legumes.

www.lcfclubs.com/babelzonenew
Lyrics:
Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.
Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.

Un chou vert pour commencer
On mélange, on mélange
Un chou vert pour commencer
On mélange. C'est presque prêt.

Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.
Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.

Deux tomates pour continuer
On mélange, on mélange
Deux tomates pour continuer
On mélange. C'est presque prêt.

Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.
Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.

Trois carotte pour terminer
On mélange, on mélange
Trois carottes pour terminer
On mélange. C'est le dîner!

A table! 

Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.
Pour faire une soupe il nous faut
Des légumes bons et gros.

Happy Halloween!

While, you're kids are walking around tonight, be sure to throw in some Spanish and French at each house! Though there is no actual Halloween in Spanish speaking countries, the literal translation for "trick-or-treat" is "truco o dulce"; and in french it would be "friandises ou betises".

Foreign Language House at foreignlanguagefun.com released a cute song about fall harvest to go along with the music from Alouette.

French Version

La citrouille, voici la citrouille

La citrouille, ronde et orange.

La citrouille a deux yeux. La citrouille a deux yeux. (The pumpkin has two eyes)

Deux yeux. (echo)

La citrouille (echo)

Ohhhhhhh . . . .

La citrouille, voici la citrouille

La citrouille, ronde et orange.

La citrouille a un nez. La citrouille a un nez. (The pumpkin has one nose)

Un nez (echo)

Deux yeux (echo)

La citrouille (echo)

Ohhhhh

La citrouille, voici la citrouille

La citrouille, ronde et orange.

La citrouille a une bouche. La citrouille a une bouche. (The pumpkin has one mouth)

Une bouche (echo)

Un nez (echo)

Deux yeux (echo)

La citrouille (echo)

Ohhhhh . . .

La citrouille, voici la citrouille

La citrouille, ronde et orange.

Spanish Version

Calabaza, es la calabaza

Calabaza, es mi amiga! (Pumpkin is my friend)

Tiene dos ojos, tiene dos ojos (It has two eyes)

Dos ojos (echo)

Calabaza (echo)

Ohhhh. . .

Calabaza, es la calabaza

Calabaza, es mi amiga!

Tiene una nariz, tiene una nariz (It has one nose)

Una nariz (echo)

Dos ojos (echo)

Calabaza (echo)

Ohhhh. . .

Calabaza, es la calabaza

Calabaza, es mi amiga!

Tiene una boca, tiene une boca (It has one mouth)

Una boca (echo)

Una nariz (echo)

Dos ojos (echo)

Calabaza (echo)

Ohhhh. . .

Calabaza, es la calabaza

Calabaza, es mi amiga!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

French / Spanish Halloween Videos

This week and next, we are learning about body parts! Halloween is a great time of year to teach the body parts, using pumpkin faces, label the skeleton, make your own pumpkin/skull etc! We are reading the book, GO AWAY BIG GREEN MONSTER and also singing Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes!

Here are a few great Halloween videos to watch with your kids in French/Spanish!