Halloween is filled with all sorts of colorful characters.
Meet witches and ghosts, spiders and bats, cowboys, pirates, monsters, and more!
Theres a lot of vocabulary to have fun with.
One way to help young learners remember all these new words is by associating the word with a gesture.
Gestures serve as a memory trigger and they are just fun to do.
Most Super Simple Songs are designed to be used with gestures.
When you use gestures, very little pre-teaching is necessary.
Its always a good idea to have the students create the gestures themselves.
When they create the gestures, it helps them internalize the language even more.
Then have everyone stand up and play the music.
you’re free to sing along and demonstrate the song while the students follow your lead.
One of our favorite songs to sing in October isHello, My Friends.
It introduces a number of common Halloween characters/costumes in a super friendly way.
Hello, My Friends Lyric and Gesture Guide
Hello, my friends.
Hello, my friends.
(point to your eyes then point out)Hello, my friends.
(cross arms over your chest like a sleeping bat)Spiders and bats.Lets go trick-or-treating.
Hello, my friends.
Hello, my friends.Im so happy to see you.Hello, my friends.
Hello, my friends.Lets go trick-or-treating.Lets go trick-or-treating.
These are just some suggestions, feel free to make up your own.
Or create the gestures together with the kids.
Youll bring your Halloween characters to life by acting them out with gestures!
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