K was quite ruffled and while we love a bit of Hallowe'en silliness, I wanted to find a more positive angle to stop him dwelling on ghosts, poltergeists and things that go bump in the night.
We did Diwali last year so Day of the Dead was the perfect topic for this season. My talented friend wrote a book about a skeleton so we timed reading it to coincide with the festival and then looked at the science of bones.
Kicking off with some geography we located Mexico and watched the beautiful Literacy Shed videos on the topic; a perfect link to death without ghoulishness. Fantastic follow up discussion too :
http://www.literacyshed.com/day-of-the-dead.html
Using a My Body book we investigated skeletons and considered what we'd look like without bones. We talked bones, bone marrow and what happens if you break a bone.
Finally we made some split-pin moving skeletons (Twinkl template), just for fun!
