10/19, 10/20 Story Hour

Theme: Witches

Targeted Early Literacy Skills: Phonological Awareness (understanding words are made up of smaller parts and can rhyme)
Book: Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
Song: 5 Black Bats (to “Frere Jacques”)
Bats are sleeping, bats are sleeping
Upside down, upside down
Waiting for the night to come
Waiting for the night to come
Then they fly around!
Then they fly around!
Fingerplay: Five Little Pumpkins
Craft (targets Fine Motor Skills): Make a magical brew with blood drops (Red Hots), werewolf teeth (candy corn), owl’s eyes (M&Ms), bat bones (pretzel sticks), cat claws (sunflower seeds), dead flies (raisins), ghost noses (mini marshmallows), and spider eggs (popcorn).

Fingerplay: Itsy Bitsy Spider. Do this fingerplay in a whisper for the Itsy Bitsy spider, regular voice for Medium Mama spider, and yell for Great Big Daddy spider!
Activity: Play Musical Brooms! Whoever holds the broom when the music stops gets to fly around the circle!
For Further Reading:
10 Trick or Treaters by Janet Schulman (E)
By the Light of the Halloween Moon by Caroline Stutson (E)
Fright Night Flight by Laura Melmed (E)
The Great Pumpkin Strikes Again by Justine Fontes (E)

Halloween Rescue! by Cynthia Stierle (E)