You really can't do anything really serious.
The kids minds are elsewhere.
So today we painted faces,
made puppets, painted pumpkins,
and stuffed a witches hand.
Nothing scary, just a few activities until we get to the main event--
The Annual Halloween Parade!
A mummy face!
Painting pumpkins in orange, yellow, or green.
It goes with our weekly poem.
I think I wrote it while I was student teaching in Sally Tsuchiguchi's kindergarten 1989, and I still use it today. It's a great poem for early readers and you can teach so many concepts through the poem too.
(phonics, letter Pp sound, descriptive words, ELD, sizes, syllables, COP, diversity)
PUMPKINS
Pumpkin big,
Pumpkin small,
Pumpkin round,
Pumpking tall,
Pumpkin yellow,
Pumpkin green,
All for us on Halloween!
I have kids act it out with their bodies, created flannel pieces, and ordering pumpkins according to size too.
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