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 Halloween
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 Books
- Use the book Who Walks on This Halloween Night? by Harriet
Ziefert to learn different Halloween characters. Make up a motion
for each of the characters and have the children act them out while
singing the song that is printed at the end of the book.
 
- Read the story Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman to the children.
We spend a week or two on this and act out the story over and over
with different kids playing different roles. On Halloween day,
we act out the story one more time, but change the characters from
witch, ghost, vampire, etc. to the actual costumes that the children
are wearing. We videotape this and pass it around to the parents
who were not able to be present.
 If
you are unfamiliar with the story, it is about a witch who grows a pumpkin
to make pumpkin pie for Halloweeen. The pumpkin is too big for
her to pull off the vine. A ghost, a vampire, a mummy, and a
bat all happen along to help her. Each time another character
comes on the scene, the text is repeated and they all end by saying,
"drat" when they can't get the pumpkin off the vine.
Finally, the bat comes up with an idea that works, and they all enjoy
pumpkin pie. The illustrations are incredible and the repetitive
text is great fun.
Technology
 You
can download this Halloween
Poem in Word
for Windows format. When you print it and cut the pages on the dotted
line, it assembles into a cumulative story that ends up looking like
the picture below.
 You
can download this Intellipics game that tells the story Go
Away Big Green Monster!
(by Ed Emberly, 1992).--Maria Palavecino, Carol Micit,
and Terry Gradwohl
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This page was last updated on October 14, 2002
Please send comments to Linda Bastiani (bastiani@umd5.umd.edu)
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