Tiny Teach Theme: Halloween

Letter: Review A, C, & P Color: Black Math: Review

Theme Games & Activities 1. Play “Boo”ngo: {attached} 2. Funkin Fun: Buy a funkin (fake pumpkin). They are $5 at Walmart right now. Use foam sheets to cut out jack-o-lantern face pieces and attach Velcro to the back of each piece. Put velcro on the funkin where you want the pieces to be. Put all your pieces in a fun basket or pail for your little one to arrange.

3. Pretend to be different Halloween characters & point out the different movements each one should have (ghost, witch, bat, cat, spider)

4. Sort different Halloween erasers into a muffin tin or ice cube tray.

5. Read, The Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything and use the story mat & story pieces to retell the story. (attached)

6. Play Halloween Memory download yours at http://lilmoptop.blogspot.com/2010/09/halloween-memory-game-free-printable.html

Hal loween Art Projects 1. Make footprint ghosts. (Paint the bottom of your child’s foot

with white paint and stamp on black paper. Then add eyes and a mouth with a black sharpie.)

2. Make ghost puppets to use with “The Ghosts Go Flying” song. (ghost template attached)

3. Make a Pumpkin Feelings Book. After you print & bind the pages, your little one draws the faces on the pumpkins. (template attached)

4. Make a tissue paper jack-o-lantern by gluing pieces of orange tissue paper to cover a pumpkin template. (attached)

Letter Activities

1. Play “Witch’s ABC Stew” {Download yours here: https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B1XbLVKk6pZUOWRjZmQ5YTUtZWQwNS00ZDE5LTg4NTgtNGRkOGIwYzk1Njdm&hl=en

2. Play Letter Match with the letters you want to review. Download your ghost letter cards here:

http://www.momsbreak.com/printable/halloween/free-ghost-letters.shtml 2. Make Monster Slime (tint shaving cream green) and practice writing letters (with fingers) in it.

3. Make Halloween characters out of big letters (Ex: make a bat out of an A).

Color Activities Black Songs & Fingerplays 1. “BAA, BAA BLACK SHEEP”

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, have you any wool?

Yes Sir, yes Sir, three bags full,

One for the Master, one for the dane

One for the little boy who lives down the lane.

2. “TWO LITTLE BLACK BIRDS”

Two little blackbirds

Sitting on a hill (hold up 2 hands, fingers spread)

One named Jack (flap fingers on one hand)

One named Jill (flap fingers on the other hand)

Fly away Jack. (flap fingers on one hand & put behind back)

Fly away Jill (do same with other hand)

Come back Jack. (Jack flies back out)

Come back Jill. (Jill flies back out)

Two little blackbirds, (Hold hands out, fingers spread)

Back on the hill,

Happy together, together still

3. “WE KNOW THE COLOR BLACK” (Tune: “The Farmer in the Dell)

We know the color black,

We know the color black,

Tires and crows and licorice too,

We know the color black

Black Art Projects 1. Make a black bat out of handprints. 2. Use small pieces of black construction paper to make a crow (crow template attached)

3. Make black playdough & cut Halloween shapes with cookie cutters.

Templates & Visual Aids

http://www.lilmoptop.blogspot.com

“The Ghosts Go Flying” tune: “The Ants Go Marching” The ghosts go flying five by five, oooooh, oooooh

The ghosts go flying five by five oooooooh, ooooooh The ghosts go flying five by five, the little one stops to take a dive

and they all go floating down to the town for some fun, Halloween. ooh, oooh, oooh

The ghosts go flying four by four, oooooh, oooooh The ghosts go flying four by four oooooooh, ooooooh

The ghosts go flying four by four, the little one stops to shut the door

and they all go floating down to the town for some fun, Halloween. ooh, oooh, oooh

The ghosts go flying three by three, oooooh, oooooh The ghosts go flying three by three oooooooh, ooooooh

The ghosts go flying three by three, the little one stops to climb a tree

and they all go floating down to the town for some fun, Halloween. ooh, oooh, oooh

The ghosts go flying two by two, oooooh, oooooh The ghosts go flying two by two oooooooh, ooooooh

The ghosts go flying two by two, the little one stops to whisper, “Boo!”

and they all go floating down to the town for some fun, Halloween. ooh, oooh, oooh

The ghosts go flying one by one, oooooh, oooooh

The ghosts go flying one by one oooooooh, ooooooh The ghosts go flying one by one,

the little one stops to say, “Hey, where is everyone?” and they all go floating down to the town

for some fun, Halloween. ooh, oooh, oooh, ooooooooooooh

Hal loween Books Peek-A-Booooo Who? By Dorthea DePrisco

The Night Before Hal loween by Natasha Wing Pumpkin Pumpkin by Jeanne Tintherington

The Little Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Wise Brown The Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything by

Linda Wil l iams Go Away Big Green Monster by Ed Emberly

By the Light of the Hal loween Moon by Kevin Hawkes

PLEASE REMEMBER that this is a compliation of ideas that I used when I taught Kindergarten & from around the web. When I used someone else’s idea, I sited it or linked to it .

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! !