With Halloween approaching next week I've been giving some thought to the practice of celebrating Halloween in preschool. I can see many benefits including high student interest, many available materials, and bringing a part of the children's home life into school. There are of course drawbacks including religious conflicts, time taken away from an already ongoing unit of study topic, and maintaining the depth of learning that I like to encourage in class. I previously taught in a school that did not allow classes to celebrate holidays. I currently enjoy the flexibility that I have to follow what I feel my students will learn most from.
So what will I do this year? Celebrate!!! The four preschool classes in my school will have activity stations set up in the classrooms and the children will rotate between them. It will be a fun day that will be largely focused on building our preschool community. It won't be the most Montessori or Reggio guided day but the children will have a wonderful time and continue to develop a sense of their school as a place where they belong and love to be!
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