Day of the Dead Update

It has been awhile since I have blogged, so I thought it was about time to get back into it.  Dia de los Muertos is one of my favorite holidays to teach about!  Since my original Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead post I have made a few changes.

Here are some of the changed:

• I have created a Day of the Dead presentation.
• I also have the students make paper versions of an ofrenda.
• I bring in cookies with skeletons on them.
• I do skeleton color by numbers.
• I have added some new videos.

If you want to really go all out, you can dress up!  Our school does positive book character day around this time, so I dress up as Maria in "A Book of Life". 

You can purchase this unit at my TPT store.

Dia de Los Muertos

We have a lot of fun activities planned to celebrate Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead.

• Introduce the word TRADITION and define as a group
• Discuss tradition of Halloween in United States and Dia de los Muertos in Mexico
• Pass out mini booklet about Dia de los Muertos and read together
• Compare and Contrast Halloween and Dia de los Muertos 
• Help students locate United States and Mexico on map discuss similarities of cultures (Love of family, value of relationship with and memory of people we love, enjoy family celebration with food and loved ones)
• Invite students to enjoy traditional Mexican Horchata and Pan de Muerto
• Decorate skeleton cookies at station 
• Paint skulls and add glitter and flowers
• Watched videos about Dia de los Muertos on Encarta Kids

Purchase my Dia de los Muertos mini book from TPT!  

Check out my updated post here.