Week 6/ Halloween!

Weekly Book List:
Go to library and pick up several Halloween related books. Read one every day with the lesson.
 Buy: Candy Corn mix

Monday-Language Arts
sign of the day: pumpkin
Letter(s): p, q
Reading Vocab: pumpkin, queen
Literature: Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater nursery rhyme and Five Little Pumpkins poem
Activity: Peter Pumpkin Eater finger puppets use to tell rhyme
Do Five Little Pumpkins finger play

Tuesday-Science
sign of the day: halloween
Topic: Pumpkin lifecycle
Learn: print out these stages of a pumpkin's life. Help child put them in order. Maybe include the pumpkin pie stage! Here's another pumpkin lifecycle worksheet.
Activity: cut open a pumpkin. Explore the insides. Talk about how the seeds, if replanted, will make more pumpkins next year! Cook the seeds and eat them. (wash, spray with little oil, cook at 325 for 25 minutes)
Here's a jack-o-lantern maze for fun.

Wednesday- Math
sign of the day: corn (put together with candy to say candy corn)
Topic: Candy Corn Math
Activity: Candy Corn Patterns: Buy a package of Autum Mix candy corn (with the pumpkins and and two different kinds of candy corn) Practice making and finishing patterns with the candy.
Candy Corn Grid Game: each player gets an ice cube tray. Take turns rolling dice. Whatever number you roll, you get that many candy corns. Whoever fills their tray first, wins.
Play don't eat Pete with candy corn: Make 3x3 grid with one candy corn in each square. One player goes out while the others choose which one is "Pete". Player comes back in and begins to collect the candy. When they choose "Pete" everyone yells "Don't eat Pete!" They get to keep however many they collected before finding "Pete."
Thursday- Social Studies
sign of the day: fun
Topic: Pumpkin Fun
Activities: jack-o-lantern mask: hold a paper plate up to child's face. Mark where his eyes, nose and mouth are. Make a jack-o-lantern face on the plate matching up with the child's face. Color orange. Cut out holes for eyes nose and mouth. Punch holes on each side of the plate and tie yarn to tie around child's head.
Make pumpkin cookies using chocolate chips to make a jack-o-lantern face.
Make egg carton jack-o-lantern. fill with candy corn.  
Go to the pumpkin patch!