We kicked off our All Hallow's Read week with 6 staff share reading Erica Silverman's book Big Pumpkin. What a great patterned story of a witch who can not pick her over grown pumpkin, yet wants to make pumpkin pie for Halloween. We donned our book character costumes to share a scary, ok not so scary, book for Halloween.
As a way to build excitement with reading and books, we are sharing Halloween and pumpkin stories we read with our class with the whole school by adding the name of the book on a pumpkin cut out. The cut outs are added to a growing pumpkin patch in the hall. Out pumpkin patch is half way filled. I can not wait to see it grow this week.
My students will continue enjoying Big Pumpkin with retelling the story and making small puppets that the students will share with their families at the end of the week. I love this time of year. At home I have bats hanging in my chandelier, a giant spider web in the entry, a scary cat and bones spooking up the mantle. I love that this time of year does not have to be all about the sugary treats, but also have the treat of a great spooky story.
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