Pumpkin Palooza Page: Write your own pumpkin story. Practice writing Halloween words. Retell a Halloween story. Use at a Halloween center. Use as a recording page. Write a Halloween prayer. The possibilities are endless.
Pumpkin prayer: Read as a class. Post in your classroom. Use as you carve pumpkins in your class. Send home with students.
“The Harvest...” page: Read this passage to your students. Talk about what it might mean. Brainstorm ideas as a class. Ask questions...What is the harvest? Why is there no one willing to work?
Ten Pumpkins Subtraction Book: This Mini-Reader works great in accompaniment with Stephen Savage’s new counting book: Ten Orange Pumpkins. Have the students work through the subtraction story and write in the correct difference.
Pocket Chart and Decodable Reader: Read through the reader as a class. Highlight sight words. Use the pocket chart to retell the story. Sequence how to carve a pumpkin.
How To Carve a Pumpkin: Write this, how to, piece as a class.
Pumpkin Acrostic Poem: Do one together as a class, choosing from the listed ones and then possibly assign another for homework, or as a family project.
Spin & Graph: Spin each letter of Pumpkin to see which letter gets to the top first!
On All Saints Day...On All Souls Day... This writing paper can be used as a class. Do some research as a class to help your students better understand All Saints/Souls Day. Use this recording sheet to write about what you find.