☕️ Spooky Lessons & Smart Thinking:
☕️ Spooky Lessons & Smart Thinking: How a Halloween Escape Room Transformed My ESL Classroom 👋 Hey teachers — grab your coffee, sit back, and let’s talk about how I accidentally built the spookiest (and most successful!) English lesson of my year. 🎃 How It All Started If you’ve followed my classroom journey for a while, you already know: I love mixing games, storytelling, and language learning. So this Halloween, I took it one step further — we built a Google Forms Escape Room called “The Midnight Mystery at MTEL School.” It all began as a creative writing idea… and turned into a full-on English adventure. 🕛 The Idea Behind It Halloween is gold for ESL. It’s colorful, imaginative, and perfect for building descriptive language, teamwork, and critical thinking. Students love a challenge — and escape rooms turn lessons into experiences. When they’re spelling, reading, or solving idioms under time pressure, they’re not just memorizing E...
