11 Halloween Films for Kids

1- HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA  

The film tells a story of Count Dracula, the owner of a hotel called Hotel Transylvania where the world's monsters can take a rest from human civilization. Dracula invites some of the most famous monsters to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter Mavis. When the "non-human hotel" is unexpectedly visited by an ordinary 21-year-old traveler named Jonathan, Dracula must protect Mavis from falling in love with him before the hotel's guests learn there is a human in the castle, which may jeopardize the hotel's future.

2- HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA - 2

Hotel Transylvania 2 takes place seven years after the first film, with the hotel now open to human guests. Mavis and Johnny have a young son named Dennis, whose lack of any vampire abilities worries his grandfather Dracula. When Mavis and Johnny go on a visit to Johnny's parents, Dracula calls his friends to help him make Dennis a vampire. However, an unexpected visit from Dracula's old-school human-hating father, Vlad, soon turns things upside-down. 

 
  

3- MONSTER HOUSE

Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.





4- POOH'S HEFFALUMP HALLOWEEN MOVIE

It is Lumpy's first Halloween with Winnie the Pooh, Roo, and their friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. A heffalump is heard trumpeting in the hundred acre woods. Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and Piglet are scared and rush to Rabbit’s house for advice. Roo joins them and they all agree that heffalumps are nearby after finding a huge footprint. They decide to set out on an expedition to catch the heffalump. Roo is not allowed to come along because he is too little.


5- IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN

This animated production features Charlie Brown and his friends. It's Halloween again, and everyone goes trick-or-treating except for Linus. He will wait for the Great Pumpkin. 


 
 

6- HOCUS POCUS

After three centuries, three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it is up to two teenagers, a young girl and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.






7- HALLOWEENTOWN

After learning she is a witch, a girl (Kimberly J. Brown) helps save a town full of other supernatural creatures.



8- THE BLACK CAULDRON
A young boy and a bunch of misfit friends embark on a quest to find a dark magic item of ultimate power before a diabolical tyrant can.

  


9- CASPER
 
Harvey and his daughter Kat move in, and soon Kat meets Casper, the ghost of a young boy who's "the friendliest ghost you know." But not so friendly are Casper's uncles--Stretch, Fatso and Stinkie--who are determined to drive all "fleshies" away. Ultimately, it is up to Harvey and Kat to help the ghosts cross over to the other side. 





10- THE ADDAMS FAMILY

The Addams Family is a group of fictional characters. The Addams Family characters have traditionally included Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Grandma, Wednesday, Pugsley, Cousin Itt, and Thing.



 11- THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 
 
The story starts in a forest with seven trees containing doors leading to towns representing various holidays: Fourth of July, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas, and Halloween. Halloween Town is a fantasy world filled with citizens such as deformed monsters, ghosts, ghouls, goblins, vampires, werewolves and witches. 

Daylight Saving Time - 24 th October & Halloween Ideas

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is the practice of setting the clocks forward one hour from Standard Time during the summer months, and back again in the fall, in order to make better use of natural daylight.

  

Clocks Back or Forward?

To remember which way to set your watch, keep in mind “spring forward, fall back”. You set your clock forward in the spring when DST starts (= lose one hour), and back one hour when DST ends in the fall (= regain one hour).

DST




Is changing the clocks a waste of time?  
An animated history




Halloween Doors Decorations 



 



 




 

More ideas & Crafts


  




 Trick or treat, give something good to eat



 Halloween food ideas

 

 

Trick or treat? Trick or treat? 
Give me something good to eat. 
Apples, peaches, tangerines. 
Happy Happy Halloween. 

Trick or treat? Trick or treat? 
Give me something sweet to eat. 
Cookies, chocolate, jelly beans. 
Happy Happy Halloween. 

Trick or treat? Trick or treat? 
Give me something sour to eat. 
Lemons, grapefruits, limes so green. 
Happy Happy Halloween. 

Trick or treat? Trick or treat? 
Give me something good to eat. 
Nuts and candy. Lollipops. 
Now it's time for us to stop.

  

Video - Song

Halloween Songs

 

"La riuà" - Valencia Flood 1957

Each October, rain comes to the Valencia region, not so much in the city area, but in the surrounding plains and mountainous area that separates the city from inland Spain. The rainfall surges during this change in autumn, onto land that is very dry after a long year without much rain.




The 1957 Valencia flood (Spanish: gran riada de Valencia) was a natural disaster that occurred on 13th and 14th October 1957 in Valencia, Spain. The flood resulted in significant damage to property and caused the deaths of at least 81 people.

 




 

Following the incident, it was decided to re-route the river around the city, leaving twelve miles of the riverbed free for other urban uses. This is now the Turia Garden, the largest green area in Valencia.

Documentary made in 2007 by Valencia University, with radio reports, video footage and eyewitness accounts of the flood. 



This is a tourism video was taken a few years ago, but shows Valencia from the air, over the park and areas rebuilt after the flood.




 Caroline Angus Baker

9th & 12th October Festivals

VALENCIAN COMMUNITY

The Community of Valencia (Comunidad Valenciana in Spanish), also known as the Valencian Country (País Valencià), is the fourth most populous Spanish autonomous community, with a population of slightly over 5 million.



Bathed in Mediterranean sun, giving warmth and that special kind of light that Sorolla immortalized on canvas the Valencian Community is a beatiful place to live or visit.


On the 9^th of October every year, the people of Valencia celebrate the national day of their autonomous region. This is a historical commemoration of the date in 1238 when King James I officially entered the city of Valencia, freeing it from Moorish rule. 


 
Since 1365 every 9^th October, Valencia's Senyera flag has presided over the festivities. The Senyera flag is lowered from the main balcony of the Town Hall, rather than being taken out by the door, and carried in a civic procession to the Parterre, where a floral tribute is laid before the statue of King James. Following the event, and after the Valencian anthem has been sung, it is taken to the History Museum.

People in Valencia love their fireworks. This becomes clear at Día de la Comunidad Valencia. After the procession the firework begins at Plaza Ayuntamiento with a mascleta. This is very loud fireworks with a lot of blasts and booms  After the fireworks there are many shows full of music and colour. The night before Día de la Comunidad Valenciana, at 8 October, there is also firework. You can see the ornamental fireworks from each square.

 

The 9^th of October is also the day of St. Dyonisius, the equivalent of Valentine's Day in Valencia. On this day the custom is for men to give the women what is known as a “Mocadorà”, also called a “Mocaorà”: a bundle of marzipan sweets wrapped up in a handkerchief.




Every year the cakemakers of Valencia produce thousands upon thousands of these little marzipan figures. An interesting fact is that more than 70,000 kilos of marzipan are used to produce some 200,000 "mocadoràs" to be given as gifts to wives, girlfriends and mothers.



Events Programme 

Day of the Valencian Community - La Mocaorà - Moros i Cristians




ARAGON

 


The most important festival of the year in Zaragoza is the Las Fiestas del Pilar, which is held in October. It is a celebration to honor the “Virgin of the Pilar,” and the festivals include customs of the region with fireworks, music, food and parades. It always takes place around the 12th of October, beginning with the offering of flowers, that form an enormous mantle for the Virgin, and continues for nine days. Its origin is rooted in the belief that the Virgin Mary visited the region.



The feast day of Our Lady of El Pilar is on October 12th. Every year on that day and the following day there is a big festival in Zaragoza, because the Lady of El Pilar is the patron saint of the city. On previous days several roaming bands perform on major streets and plazas of the city. 



 

Columbus Day - Fiestas del Pilar 

5th October - WTD World Teacher's Day

Damos la bienvenida a este mes que nos trae horario de mañana y tarde en el cole, que nos acorta las horas de sol y que muda el color de los árboles y que inicia un baile con sus hojas haciendo que dancen hasta caer rendidas formando una alfombra a nuestros pies :-)



Lo iniciamos con una sonrisa, la que nos ilumina la cara y nos conforta el ánimo, la que nos hace sentir tan bien cuando la vemos en el rostro de los demás y ni te cuento cuando nos brota de dentro.



Y la primera celebración que nos trae es la del WTD.

This year World Teachers’ Day, with the slogan ‘empowering teachers, building sustainable societies’, will be celebrated around the world on October 5^th, 2015. This day, which celebrates teachers and offers a chance to give thanks and appreciation to educators, was established in 1994 by UNESCO; the events and activities are organised in more than 100 countries worldwide.

 
 

Quiero felicitar efusivamente a cuantos maestros han pasado por mi vida, que si me paro a pensar han sido muchos y todos y cada uno han dejado su huella y despertaron mi curiosidad por aprender, de las maneras más variadas.
 

También a mis compañeros y compañeras de profesión con los que comparto la pasión por este fascinante mundo de la educación en el que enseñar y aprender forman parte de un todo. 


Y como no, a nuestros alumnos con los que día a día compartimos el camino.
Su vitalidad, entusiasmo y alegría guían nuestros pasos. 
Todos y cada uno de ellos aportan su peculiar tonalidad a nuestra escuela y vamos creciendo y avanzando unidos.



A ver que os parece este vídeo: A day in the life of a teacher!



Ahí va este otro vídeo que trata de dos personas distintas que se encuentran provocando un cambio inesperado en sus vidas. 






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