Halloween: October's Holiday

HALLOWEEN: OCTOBER'S HOLIDAY

OCTOBER 31, 2015

Why did I name this title, "Halloween: October's Holiday"? Everyone celebrates and prepares for this holiday throughout the entire month of October. Everyone is always excited about this holiday. But why?

Throughout the month, people celebrate different fall activities that leads up to Halloween. People go pumpkin picking so they can carve or decorate the pumpkins. 

Also, families and friends attend different fall festivals and farms. There, people go through corn mazes, drink apple cider, and enjoy the fall weather.  

There are many people that want to be frightened during the month of October. These people attend different haunted houses. Every haunted house has a theme, and depending on the theme, actors dress up in specific costumes to scare the people walking through the houses.

Watch this funny video from the Ellen show!

Do you think you can walk through a haunted house?

Halloween is a time for people to dress up into different costumes that showcases a specific person or event. People like to dress up to be funny or scary. People attend different parties or events to present their costumes. People buy them through a store, and there are many people that make them from scratch. 

Children love Halloween because of all the candy they get during Trick or Treating.  Trick or Treating is where children walk to different houses in their costumes and say "Trick or Treat" to every house, and in return they get candy. Children carry big bags around town by the end of the night, and the poor parents have to watch out because they don't want all of them to get cavities.

Vocabulary List

prepare: (verb) to get something ready beforehand

excited: (adjective) very enthusiastic or eager

depending: (verb) to be determined or rely on
theme: (noun) a main topic that surrounds the overall setting

from scratch: (phrase) doing something from the very beginning

cavities- (plural noun) damages to the structures of your teeth

Vocabulary Practice

Fill in the correct word.

1. We are very ______________ to go trick or treating tonight!

2. My mom makes her pasta sauce ________________.

3. We have so much to ________________ before the Halloween party.

4. I may walk through the haunted house ______________ how scary it is.

5. So many children may get _______________ if they don't brush their teeth.

6. This haunted house has a circus ______________. We have to walk through a scary Big Top Tent.

Let's Learn Grammar!

When we write sentences, we always capitalize the first letter of every sentence.  When we are writing a name of a person or an event, we capitalize the first letter of the name even though it is in the middle of the sentence.

Go through the reading on Halloween and point out all the times I included a capital letter.

Check out this website!
Listen and watch the video about Halloween, and answer the questions based on what you heard and saw!
http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/autumn-festivals/halloween/history-of-halloween-listening.html