Familiarising activities for Room on the Broom by

Create Your Own Magical Broomstick Adventure

sophiemorris8 — 2024-08-29 23:34:18 UTC

Students brainstorm and write their own adventure stories inspired by Room on the Broom. Encourage them to imagine new characters and magical occurrences.

Role Play Adventure

sophiemorris8 — 2024-08-29 23:34:19 UTC

Have students role-play different scenes from Room on the Broom. Provide simple costumes or props and let them reenact their favorite parts, encouraging expression and creativity.

Build a Broomstick

sophiemorris8 — 2024-08-29 23:34:19 UTC

Using craft materials such as straws, paper, and string, students create their own miniature broomsticks. Encourage creativity and imagination in the design.

Character Masks

sophiemorris8 — 2024-08-29 23:34:21 UTC

Students create and decorate masks of their favorite characters from Room on the Broom. Use paper plates, markers, and other craft supplies.

Story Sequencing

sophiemorris8 — 2024-08-29 23:34:21 UTC

Print scenes from the book and have students put them in the correct order. Discuss the sequence as a class once completed.

Character Analysis

sophiemorris8 — 2024-08-29 23:34:21 UTC

Hold a class discussion about the characters in Room on the Broom. What are their traits? How do they help each other? Write character profiles for each one.

Create a Magic Potion

sophiemorris8 — 2024-08-29 23:34:22 UTC

Students invent their own magic potion, drawing inspiration from the witch's character. List ingredients (real or imagined) and write a recipe.

Word Hunt

sophiemorris8 — 2024-08-29 23:34:24 UTC

Organize a scavenger hunt in the classroom or playground with words from the story hidden around. Students find and collect them, then use the words to create sentences or a short story.

Rhyming Words Challenge

sophiemorris8 — 2024-08-29 23:34:27 UTC

Identify rhyming words from the story and create new rhyming pairs. Students can expand on this by writing their own rhyming poems or verses.

Vocabulary Expansion

sophiemorris8 — 2024-08-29 23:34:28 UTC

Choose interesting and challenging words from the book. Facilitate a word-discussion session where students discuss meanings and use words in different contexts.

Book Review

sophiemorris8 — 2024-08-29 23:34:30 UTC

Students write a book review reflecting on Room on the Broom. What did they like? What would they change? Encourage honesty and creativity.

Room on the Broom Quiz

sophiemorris8 — 2024-08-29 23:34:30 UTC

Create a fun quiz based on the story to assess comprehension. Group students to make the activity interactive and engaging.

make potions

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make a hat and wand

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Make a broom

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Broom races

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use a wand to do imaginative play -freeze each other, turn a friend into something.

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Teacher has wand- waves wand and students are sent to different situations to role play - walk through a bog.

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Create food for the dragon so he won't eat the witch.

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make a dragon

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Act out a page

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everyone makes part of a dragon for a whole class display

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Witchy Music as the Kids walk in the classroom. The teacher is dressed as a witch.

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Room on the Broom Scavenger Hunt/Role Play

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Prior to lesson - place a class set of animal masks/hats/tails in various settings around the school.

Take the class on a broomstick ride around the school to find each character.

Choose students to become that character and join the conga line (broomstick) and pick the next setting out of the hat e.g. (a place with leafy green trees and beautiful statues - yarning circle).

Setting Art Exploration

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Have small screenshots of the images from the book, have students ‘create’ the rest of the setting around the snip of photo using art materials, based on descriptions in the book.

For example, photo of the witch on the broom in the middle of the page; students draw/create what the witch is flying over (“over the fields and forests they flew”) etc. using imagination to determine what the setting would look like.