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EEK! Monsters Activities & Resources for K-5 !

“People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves

in relation to them.” - Jim Butcher, Ghost Story

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Magic

Hauntings

Monsters

Sci-Fi

Zombies

Fantasy

Engaging reading material …

Wizards

Pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/recommended-books/id6528977

Learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org

TeachYourMonsterToRead.com iPad/Android/Web

Create a monster character & story

Monster Adjectives Mind Map

Classroommagic.blogspot.com/2011/11/grammar-mascots.html

Storybird.com

Character Texts

• Students can upload their pics or choose from a variety of characters & backgrounds or draw on the pages • Can narrate with text & audio • Embeddable

LittleBirdTales.Com

http://mail.littlebirdtales.com/tales/view/story_id/95599/

Toondoo.com

BookCreator iOS/ Android App

• Easiest way to create multimedia books & publish to iBook store • Include audio, music, videos, images

Redjumper.net/bookcreator

Puppet Pals HD iOS App

Let’s Learn How to Draw App

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lets-learn-how-to-draw-lite/id470978981?mt=8

Animate spooky

characters!

Blabberize.com

Character Texts

• Uploadyourownimages• Adds3ckers• Addmouthstocharacters• Morethanoneslide• Voicedistor3on

YakIt for Kids IOS App

Freakngenius.com

Explain Everything & Educreations iOS/Web app

Educreations.com/lesson/view/big-green-monster/804064

Activity: Draw My Monster

• All students draw a monster but don’t show the drawing • Pair students • Student A describes the monster for student B to draw

Vocabulary: Numbers, parts of the body

Create a monster planet

• Kids use Playdoh, Borax, recycled material, etc. to create a home for their monsters • They describe or write about the planet • What special features does the monster have to live on this planet?

Monster Exchange Project gtconnections.weebly.com/monster-exchange-project.html

The Monster Global Project

monsterproject.wikispaces.com

Create a script for a Domo Kun Video

http://bit.ly/1cYvYQP

Embedplus.com for adding Youtube annotations

moshimonsters.com

Create a Virtual Monster

Photo by Davynin, Flic.kr/p/isxh7E

As astronauts and space travelers children puzzle

over the future; as dinosaurs and princesses

they unearth the past … as monsters and gremlins they make sense of the unreal.

- Gretchen Owocki

Make costumes!

Trick or treat safety tips video or poster

Monster finger plays!

Horror Fingers IOS App

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cool-finger-faces/id492606918?mt=8

Play monster games!

Photo by Blakespot, Flic.kr/p/gRMJh5

Monster, How Are You? • Students stand in a line • All chant, “Mr. Monster, Mr. Monster, how are you?” • The puppet answers, “I am…” if he says hungry they all run.

Genkienglish.net/howRU.htm

Math Vs Zombies IOS K-5

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/math-games-math-vs-zombies/id470896560?mt=8

Pearltrees.com/t/monsters/id8527881#l505

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