The 21^st century learners that we have now are the students who wanted to explore, do hands-on activities, make creative stuff, collaborate with collegeus, and they are the one keeping pace with the modern technology that is very accessible to our society now. It is impossible that learners nowadays just want to stay on their seat, read their books, listen to teacher, and write on their textbook surely they want some inventive way to learn like some hands-on activities or through outside classroom activities. Experiential learning will help the students to learn through reflective ways by doing task and gain individual and social skills.

Trick-or-treating is a traditional Halloween custom and activity for children and even adults in some countries. This festival gives way to bring out the creativity and the child in us, but to kids it is all about the treats. On the 31st of October, children in costumes travel from house to house, asking for treats and confidently saying “Trick or treat”.

This opportunity will open an opportunity for the students to experience a different trick-or-treating event from the conventional house to house into a classroom to classroom one. The teachers will be the facilitators of learning and keep the students explore their creative imaginations and approach to give students an enjoyable activity that they will never forget.

Level: Grade 3

Aims: Learn Halloween vocabulary words, enjoy trick-or-treating, sing Trick or Treat song, and make creative Halloween character bookmark
Language Focus: Halloween vocabulary words, Trick or Treat song, and other vocabulary words related to Halloween

Materials: Song from Festival lesson from the textbook, Halloween costumes, Trick-or-treat candies, ebook, origami papers or colored papers

Activities:

• Trick-or-treat
• Vampire bookmark
• Singing Trick-or-treat song
• Jibjab video treat

Warm-up activity

1. The class will watch a video presentation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8KdA-K3-L4, of how to make a Halloween character bookmark. Then, the teacher will show on PowerPoint Presentation the step-by-step procedure of how to make it. For the kids to follow, the teacher will distribute the origami papers or colored papers to the class.
2. The teacher will guide everyone and demonstrate the proper folding and cutting. After doing the basic folding, the teacher will ask the students to decorate and creatively input their desired designs to the bookmark.
3. Finally when everything is done perfectly, the teacher will ask them to put the bookmark in their Dino Student’s Book.

Lesson Proper
This lesson proper is based on the Dino on the Go 1 Student’s Book Festival lesson.

1. The teacher will show the kids the Halloween introductory part on page 71. The students will name things that they can observe from that page. The teacher should elicit several responses like a witch, a ghost, candies, candles, Happy Halloween, October 31, and so on. The students are encouraged to answer as much as they can within 2 minutes. For higher levels, teachers can facilitate a board work activity where students will write all the words they can see from the picture within two-minutes.
2. Additional Halloween vocabulary words will be introduced using some PowerPoint slides through a guessing game activity. Words such as Frankenstein, zombie, haunted house, snacks, candy, trick, treat, costume, mask, witch, etc. are included. The first group to say the correct answer will earn 1 point.
3. Watch and listen to the story via ebook and then read that story from page 74 to 75 of the book.
4. The teacher will show a short trick-or-treating video from YouTube. This video will serve as a sample of how should students do the simple room-to-room trick-or-treating.
5. Next, some useful “sentence patterns” for the activity will be introduced.
   SENTENCE PATTERN
   a) A: What’s your costume?
   B: I’m a witch.
   b) (Students will knock on the door.) Trick-or-treat!
   Happy Halloween!
6. Then, the teacher will teach the kids the “Trick-or-Treat” song.
   Trick or Treat
   Trick or treat.
   Smell my feet.
   Give me something good to eat.
   Trick or treat.
   Smell my feet.
   Give me something good to eat.
   Tune: Rain, Rain, Go Away

TRICK-OR-TREATING ACTIVITY

1. Beforehand, the teacher must communicate with the homeroom adviser of each class to plan for the schedules. Available classes will be marked good for visitation and unavailable classes will be crossed out. However, the goal is that all classes must visit one class for their treats. The plan goes like this:
   

   SCHEDULE.This is the schedule approved by the homeroom teachers and the principal.

2. After the confirmation and of the schedule, the teacher must prepare bags of candies to be distributed to each classroom in preparation for the upcoming activity. This is a surprise for the students so the homeroom teachers are not allowed to disclose to his/her class about the candies, visitation, and the surprise activity.
3. During the activity, the students and teachers will all wear their Halloween costumes correctly. They must walk through the hallway to go to the other class for their treats. The main teacher will lead the way and another teacher must be there at the back to check the students' behavior.
   

   STUDENTS IN THEIR COSTUMES. These little girls ask their teacher for a group photo.

4. On the corridor, the students who are lining up must walk silently, and when the lead teacher stops they must knock on the door three times and say “Trick or treat, Happy Halloween!”
   

   WALKING ON THE CORRIDOR. The students are walking to their class destination.

5. As planned, the homeroom teacher will ask the students to come inside to sing their “Trick or treat” song. After singing, the visiting class should shout “Happy Halloween!” and the other class must respond “Happy Halloween!” with the help of the lead teacher’s instruction.
   

   TRICK OR TRICK. The students are singing Trick or Treat song and other students are listening attentively.

6. The class will give their treats to the visiting class and one of them will receive the bag of candies. So we will not waste much time the teacher should take the bag of candies and bring it to class and distribute it properly so everyone will get a share.
   

   GIVING TREATS. The students’ head gives their class treats to the visiting class.

7. Lastly, when saying goodbye they must say “Thank you and goodbye.”
   

AFTER THE VISITATION

1. The teacher will play the Dem Bones Skeleton video for wrapping-up part. All students are encouraged to follow the skeleton dance. To get motivated in dancing the teacher will say that they will only get their treats when they dance to the song. It will surely be enjoyable since they will get to see funny skeletons dancing.
   

   DEM BONES. The students are dancing to the Dem Bones song while the teacher is giving the treats to those who are dancing.

2. To end the class, the teacher will give hertreat to the class by showing them a dedication video with the Halloween theme. This video is made from Jibjab. Some students are selected to be the characters or actors in the video. This funny video will surely lighten up the students' mood.
   

   TEACHER’S TREAT FOR THE CLASS. The students are watching the Jibjab video that the teacher have prepared for them.

   JIBJAb TREAT. The students are the actors of the video treat. Each class will receive a funny Halloween video.

Reflection:

1. Experiential learning is what the 21stcentury learners need for them to cope up with the realities of the world in simple ways. Letting the kids explore their creativity by challenging themselves to make and wear costumes isthe best way to hone their skills and abilities. Some kids also enjoyed their time experiencing how real-life trick-or-treating can look like especially in this challenging pandemic time.
2. Outdoor activities are usual in other subject areas and very limited in English classes, but with this activity the students will not get bored of just being confined in the four walls of their classroom. This kind of activity will also increase their social skills.
3. The students could get familiarize themselves with the Halloween vocabulary words and with the context of the stories on their textbook.
4. This reinforcement activity will let the students appreciate learning English as fun, enjoyable, and interesting.
5. Halloween activity is often neglected in school because it is a very hard activity to organize. It is indeed very hard because there are thousands of kids in every school, but planning ahead of time and communicating with the principal for approval, homeroom teacher for the schedule, and other English teachers for integrating this activity will surely help. The realization of this activity will only be possible if it is planned for one week or two weeks before the schedule.
6. At the end of the day, the best realization is that kids truly remember things when they are very much involve in the activity. They showed off their creativity, passion, and preparedness to any task that their teacher asks them to do.