Halloween Unit

Books:

• Big Pumpkin---Erica Silverman
• Scary Scary Halloween--Eve Bunting
• The Teeny Tiny Woman
• Three Little Witches
• Stellaluna---Janell Cannon
• The Witch Has An Itch
• Dark, Dark Tale
• Bat Jamboree
• The Great Pumpkin
• Too Many Pumpkins
• The Biggest Pumpkin
• Pumpkin, Pumpkin
• Clifford’s Halloween
• The Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything--Linda Williams
• It’s Pumpkin Time
• The Ghosts’ Dinner--Jacques Duquennoy
• Scared Silly--Marc Brown
• How Spider Saved Halloween--Robert Kraus
• Bernstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin--Stan and Jan Bernstain
• The Biggest Pumpkin Ever--Steven Kroll
• Bats Creatures of the Night--Joyce Milton
• Arthur’s Halloween--Marc Brown

Halloween Poems and Songs:

• Witch’s Brew
• Wonderful Witches Song
• Ten Little Witches
• Three Little Bats
• Four Witches
• Halloween Hat

Book Group Books:

• Pumpkin, Pumpkin
• The Seed Song
• Three Little Witches

Activities:

1. Ghost footprints-Help trace one of the student’s footprints on a sheet of white paper. Outline this with black crayon and cut it out. Turn the heel up and draw the face.
   
2. I make a bat for the students to trace
3. We make bat headbands. The students color a sentence strip black for the band. They can use the bat they traced or I have a bat color sheet they can color and cut out for the front of the headband.
4. We sort bats by whether they are mega or micro bats.
5. During my development part of the lesson, I teach the students content information on cats and bats.
6. Make a bat mask.
   
7. We make witches to hang from the ceiling. A triangle for the hat, circle for the face, triangle for the dress, skinny rectangles for arms and legs, and triangle for boots.
8. Witch’s Brew- Put lime sherbert in a bowl and pour ginger ale over the sherbert. You get witch’s brew to drink. It bubbles and bubbles!
9. Cat cookies-Using 1/2 oreo cookie, put icing on and then use canycorn for ears, m and m’s for nose and eyes, and I take icing and make whiskers.
10. Monster Cookies-take gingerbread man cookies and put icing on and then let the children decorate with candy, etc.
11. Monster Toast-You will need milk, food coloring, a toaster, bread, butter, and a paint brush. Pour the milk in a cup. Add food coloring-make the milk paint brightly colored. Paint a monster on the bread with the milk paint. Next toast the bread. After bread pops up, lightly butter and munch your monster. (Idea from Cathy k/pa)
12. Estimate candy corns

Letter Recognition:

1. Letter Charts: Ww for witch, Hh for Halloween, Cc for cat, Kk for kitten, and Zz for Zombie.
2. Picture and Words: Any Halloween, bat, cat, or witch pictures.
3. Word Family-at for cats and bats and itch for the witch has an itch.

Journal Topics:

• Build a monster
• Into the Batcave