Orange - Scarecrow
Black - Cat
White - Ghost
Criss Cross apple sauce
Spiders crawling up your spine
Cool breeze, tight squeeze
Now you've got the shiveries!!!
Story and paper folding activity
One potato, two potato, three potato, four!
Poor Mr. Potato head, he fell on the floor!
Five potato, six potato, seven potato, eight!
Put him back together now, we just can't wait!
Little boo peep, has lost her sheep
And doesn't know where to find them
Leave them alone, and they'll come home
Dragging their tails behind them.
Speak poem, each child with a scarf to act out the poem and hide scarf in a new spot each time!
Place 4 maracas in the four corners of the room. Choose one student to be Bo Peep and one student to be a lost sheep. Perform poem or listen to song, at the end of the song the "sheep" shakes one of the maracas. Little Bo pee keeps eyes covered and points to the sound!
Violin/Orchestra - Watch the conductor for a surprise at the end!
If I were a little ghost, little ghost, little ghost.
If I were a little ghost, I'll tell you what I'd do!
Listen/sing/play
Pumpkin, pumpkin
Round and fine
Someone picked you off the vine
Who picked the pumpkin?
I picked the pumpkin!
Let's pat the beat and echo phrases!
"I'm so grateful for all I have" - chant
Five fun turkeys are we (5 fingers)
We slept all night in a tree (tree pose)
When the cook came around, we couldn't be found! (cook looking)
But that's why we're here you see! (happy turkey!)
Hide, hide, try and hide.
Do not let them catch us
Hide, hide, try and hide.
Do not let them catch us
This is a great Halloween read aloud with a surprise ending! Listen at home with the video if you'd like.