If your class would like to take part in Monster Motel
visit the site and encourage the children to use the web forms to sign the guestbook and submit details of their monster. Monsters will not be published without first name, age, town and country of creator.
or email Kids on the Net the information with, if available, a scanned picture converted to .jpg (particularly large graphics should be sent to this email address, please)
If you would like your class to have their own motel annex or to do more than simple descriptions of monsters, then we'd like to help:
Please send us an email giving your school name and address and ages of the children. We can discuss how you'd like to develop the Monster Motel idea for your class.
Ideas for using Monster Motel in class:
- learning about adjectives
- practising descriptive writing
- get children to illustrate each other's monster descriptions
- poetry
- stories: why are the monsters here? how do they interact?
- monster conversations
- monster food, recipes and eating habits
- the games monsters play
- monster TV programmes, favourite films, books etc.
- links to mythology: the Minotaur story
Let us know if you have any other ideas!
We'd be happy to deal with any queries you may have:
email the Editor, Helen Whitehead, at kotn@ntu.ac.uk
Copyright 1998, 1999, trAce International Online Writing Community and the authors
Kids on the Net Editor: Helen Whitehead at kotn@ntu.ac.uk
Last revised: 1st February 1999