Pumpkins, Spiders, and Bats Books
Literacy/Writing The kids love The Five Little Pumpkins poem. They read it again and again. We act the story out with masks.
Social Studies/Science/Art Some years we are lucky enough to go to the pumpkin patch. We measure, weigh and observe our pumpkins. We paint our pumpkins. We cut open a big pumpkin to see what is inside. We observe closely. We write and draw to show what we saw inside the pumpkin. We mix yellow and red finger paint for our pumpkins. We make a web using yarn and a paper plate with slits around the side.
Math We read Harriet's Halloween Candy. We sort candy just like Harriet. We use pumpkin seeds in a more, less, equal game. The pumpkin seeds are spray painted on one side. The children toss the seeds and decide if the amount of blue seeds is more than, less than or equal to the number of white seeds.
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