Superstitions Storytime | Grades K-3

Description

FAST FACTS

• Recommended for: Grades K-3
• Lesson Duration: 1-2 library lessons (about 50 minutes total)
• Formats: PPT, Google Slides, PDF
• Editable: YES, all text is editable

DISCLAIMER:

Please note that this presentation is designed to complement a read-aloud. The actual read-aloud story comes from you! I cannot include a recorded read-aloud due to copyright restrictions.

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET

• 41-slide PPT + Google™ Slides
• Scavenger Hunt Activity (1 page, PDF and PPT)
• List of 12 Recommended Reads for Halloween (1 page, PDF and PPT)
• Prep and set-up tips (1 page, PDF and PPT)
• Lesson plan templates (7 pages, PDF and PPT)
• Google™ Classroom Basics (4 pages, PDF)
• Instructions on how to set up PPT slide timings for digital bulletin boards (2 pages, PDF)

STORYTIME SLIDES INCLUDE:

• original song (“The Superstition Song”)
• American sign language sign (link to video)–“luck”
• introduction to superstitions–what superstitions are and that they are NOT true
• “Lucky or Unlucky?” group discussion game (in group discussion, students decide if seven common superstitions are lucky or unlucky)
• Every slide includes colorful photos and clipart

SUPERSTITIONS INCLUDE:

• black cats
• broken mirror
• horsehoe over a door
• number 13
• breaking a wishbone
• crossing fingers
• walking under a ladder
• maneki neko (Japanese/Chinese ceramic “waving” cats)
• nazar or nazar boncuğu (blue colored glass to ward off evil eye)
• crickets in China
• spilling and tossing salt
• “break a leg” in theater
• knocking on wood

ADDITIONAL SCROLLING SLIDES INCLUDE:

• Vocabulary: phobia, triskaidekaphobia, kismet, superstition, wishbone, maneki neko, nazar
• 2 “Would-You-Rathers”
• how to tell a cricket from a grasshopper
• whether you should hang a horseshoe like a U or like a lowercase N
• what to do if you spill the salt (bad luck)

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