Teaching special events and topics for October 2022
Take the stress out of the autumn term and keep your pupils fully engaged with these teaching events and topics for October 2020. At Busy Things for Schools, we’ve got an extensive selection of games and resources, including World Space Week and National Poetry Day that you can use to create seasonal lesson plans across a huge range of different subjects. Kids will really love drawing their own spooky monsters as part of our Halloween activities!
Try out all these resources in your classroom and lots more...
Walk to school month
1st - 31st October 2022
Tally how your class get to school and make a graph on Busy Things.
The Big Draw
1st - 31st October 2022
Busy Things is packed with creative tools, perfect to get children excited about drawing and art from a young age.
Harvest Festival
2nd October 2022
Busy Things is packed full of Harvest festival primary resources!
Whether it's labelling fruit and vegetables, creating favourite food graphs or exploring where coco beans are grown around the world - there's plenty to choose from on Busy Things!
World Animal Day
4th October 2022
World animal day activities on Busy Things include an all about My Pet writing template with ready-made clip art, photographs, paint and writing tools and a graph template for the class to collect date on favourite animals and pets.
Yom Kippur
4th - 5th October 2022
Use our Yom Kippur writing templates, clip art and photographs to help your KS2 children create exciting topic work about the holiest day of the Jewish year.
World Space Week
4th - 10th October 2022
There are plenty of World Space Week school activities on Busy Things. Ask your class to design a spaceship, write about a planet or label the solar system!
National Poetry Day
6th October 2022
Why not use Busy Things on National Poetry day?
World Smile Day
7th October 2022
Spread smiles around your classroom on World Smile Day!
Use Busy Things resources to get creative, have a look at the teeth behind the smile and think about emotional literacy.
Sukkot
9th - 16th October 2022
Use our writing templates to write about the festival of Sukkot, also known as the Feast of Tabernacles.
World Food Day
16th October 2022
Busy Things is packed full of World Food Day activities! Whether it's labelling fruit and vegetables, creating favourite food graphs or exploring where coco beans are grown around the world - there's plenty to choose from on Busy Things!
Shemini Atzeret and Simchat
16th - 17th October 2022
Use our templates to write about the Jewish festivals for Shemini Atzerat and Simchat Torah.
Halloween
31st October 2022
Ask your class to design a monster or try out our ready made templates and art and text tools to create some spooky topic work!
Busy Things also includes wicked witch colouring, pumpkin carving and a monster cup cake recipe!
Autumn activities
September - December 2022
Why not write about Autumn as part of a weather project?
Busy Things includes plenty of activities to create a topic exploring the weather and the seasons.
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