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Pumpkins, Spiders, and Bats 

Books

Book Cover Harriet's Halloween Candy by Nancy Carlson

Book Cover The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons

Literacy/Writing

The kids love The Five Little Pumpkins poem.  They read it again and again.

We act the story out with masks.

  • We make a Venn diagram to compare apples and pumpkins

  • We sing The Itsy Bitsy Spider.

  • We make a class book of spider facts.

  • We read Stellaluna and compare to the Ugly Duckling.

  • We divide a paper plate into four parts and draw and label a stage in the life cycle of a pumpkin in each part.  We connect an orange circle with a 1/4 pie slice window cut out with a brad to the middle of the plate.  Then we can tell the life cycle of a pumpkin. 

  • We write about what we see inside a pumpkin.

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.

  • We marble paint on black paper with white paint to make a spider web.

  • We make spider hats by cutting, counting and gluing eight legs.

  • We make pattern hats with October cutouts.

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.

  • We use candy corn as a math manipulative.

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