Pumpkins!

Theme for Wednesday, October 15: Pumpkins!

Opening: Open, shut them

Book: Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman

Fingerplay: Five Little Pumpkins; From Sunflower Storytime

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate
The first one said, "Oh my it's getting late."
The second one said, "There are witches in the air."
The third one said, "But we don't care."
The fourth one said, "Let's run and run and run."
The fifth one said, "Isn't Halloween fun."
Then Woooo went the wind
And OUT went the lights
And five little pumpkins rolled out of sight!

Transition Song: Touch your ears and touch your nose

Book: Pumpkin Trouble by Jan Thomas

Flannel Board: Five Giant Pumpkins; From Read Rabbit Read

Five giant pumpkins sitting on the floor
One became pumpkin pie and then there were four.

Four giant pumpkins orange as they can be
One became a jack-o-lantern and then there were three.

Three giant pumpkins, enormous, it's true
One became a carriage for Cinderella and then there were two.

Two giant pumpkins underneath the sun
One got first prize at the fair and then there was one.

One giant pumpkin sitting all alone.
I picked it up and carried it home!

I made the five giant pumpkins by glueing paper pumpkins onto felt pieces.

And then I glued each "thing" the pumpkins had become onto the back of the felt.  As I read the poem, I flipped over each pumpkin to reveal what it had turned into!

Song: We had a request for "Tutti Ta" from Johnny Only's CD Kids Music You Can Dance To!

Flannel Board: Jack-o-Happy; From So Tomorrow

This is jack-o-happy
This is jack-o-sad
This is jack-o-sleepy
This is jack-o-sad
This is jack-o-broken
Into pieces small
Baked into a pumpkin pie
That's the best of all!
YUM! YUM!

Here's our pumpkin pie! 

Book: Pumpkin Heads by Wendell Minor

Song: We had another request for "Penguin Dance" from Jack Hartmann's Get on Board the Transition Train!

Craft: Pumpkins!

The kids made pumpkins this week!  Some of the kids colored their pumpkins with crayons, some of them glued on the orange and black paper to make a jack-o-lantern face, and some did a combination of both.  Lots of the kids made two pumpkins so that they could take one home and leave one at the library!