Last week at school they asked me to do cuentacuentos, i.e. storytime with all the different classes with a Halloween story. I looked forever for a Halloween story that I remembered from when I was little and was unimpressed with what I found. The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, The Teacher from the Black Lagoon, and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown were among them, but I wasn't particularly enthused about using any of those. The Little Old Lady was too simple for the older kids and the other two would probably have been too complicated for the little ones. With all the other stuff I was already in charge of for Halloween, I really didn't want to have to do 2 different presentations.
The night before I had to give the presentation, I stumbled across the classic Where the Wild Things Are. I LOVED this book when I was little and although I had to change all my plans the night before, I decided I would much rather use that story than any of the others. Plus, since they recently made it into a movie, I could use scenes from the movie for the older kids since the book itself is pretty simple.
The story accompanied by a short Powerpoint presentation with vocabulary worked well for the little kids. Also, when I had finished telling them the story, I showed them the movie trailer and gave them some great MASKS to color. By the way, those took FOREVER to find so thanks to whoever drew them for making this resource free to me...much appreciated!
For the older kids, I read them the story and then showed them a 5-minute long scene from the movie where Max meets the Wild Things for the first time. I then had them act out the scene while reading the script. Although I don't really think they had any idea what they were saying, they had fun with it.
Overall, the presentation was definitely a success. And although I didn't want to see the movie before because I thought it would ruin the book for me, after watching that scene from the movie, I've decided I'm gonna watch the movie. It looks cute! Let's hope it does the book justice.
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