October Week 4 Halloween

1. Teachers: Sara, Karen, Robin, Mary Week of: October 23 to 27
Investigation: Halloween
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Interest Areas Games and Toys: Pumpkin
pound
Sensory: water and
babies
Sensory: Cooked
spaghetti and googley
eyes
Sensory: plastic
spiders and webbing
Sensory: frozen gloves
and water
Question of the Day What’s a mummy? Will a pumpkin sink or
float?
Which one is a Jack-o-
lantern?
How many legs
does a spider have?
What are you going to be
for Halloween?
Large Group Song: Spooky Walk
Discussion and Shared
Writing: I love you ritual
I love you ritual
Discussion and Shared
Writing: pumpkin
experiments
Game: Breathing
Discussion and Shared
Writing: Halloween
Syllables
Song: Itsy Bitsy
Spider
Discussion and
Shared Writing:
Yarn spider web
Song: Ghost Game
(classroom games
record)
Discussion and Shared
Writing: Does anything
scare you?
Read-Aloud Where’s my Mummy?
Sesame Street, Happy
Halloween!
The Vanishing Pumpkin
The Witch’s Children
Peto’s Pumpkin Story
On Halloween Night
How Spider Saved
Halloween
The Witch Who
Went For A Walk
Witch, Witch, Come to
My Party
The Costume Copycat
Small Group Morning: Tape Mummy
Afternoon: Pick a pumpkin
poem
Morning: Tape Mummy
Afternoon: Skeleton,
Skeleton Where’s your
bone?
Morning: Candy corn
charting
Afternoon: Violin
Visitor
Morning: Wax
paper and yarn
spider web
Afternoon: Intergen
Morning: Draw pic of
Halloween costume
Afternoon: March around
a pumpkin/Jack-o-lantern
toss
Ohio Early
Learning and
Development
Standards
PWB-Use classroom tools
independently w/eye-hand
coordination to carry out
activities
SE-Demonstrate socially
competent behavior
AL-Ask questions to
seek explanations about
phenomena of interest
GKM-Say number names
in standard order, pairing
each object w/one number
LL-Hear sounds in words
by isolating the syllables of
a word using clapping etc.
AL-Express
individuality
through a variety of
media
SS-Awareness of his/her
personal history
GKS-Objects &
materials are described
by their properties
Gold Objectives,
Dimensions &
Indicators
Demonstrates fine-motor
strength & coordination
Interacts w/peers
Thinks problems
through, considering
several possibilities &
analyzing results
Connects numerals
w/their quantities
Hears and shows
awareness of separate
syllables
Thinks symbolically Demonstrates knowledge
of physical properties of
objects & materials
Outdoor Experiences:
Family Partnerships
Wow! Experiences: Oberlin Librarian comes to KELC for story time, Oberlin college student comes into classroom to play violin