To prepare for this graphic organizer, you can either use chart paper OR orange bulletin paper. Cut your paper into the shape of a pumpkin, then split the pumpkin into five segments using markered lines. Label each segment a sense; smell, touch, taste, sound, and sight. Place a large pumpkin in the center of your carpet or discussion area. I let students take turns approaching it and choose which sense they'd like to use to talk about the pumpkin before handling the pumpkin appropriately to judge sound or touch or the like. I have a small container of pumpkin seeds and pumpkin guts with napkins for students to assess taste if they choose rather than licking the pumpkin.
5 Little Pumpkin Rebus Reading
Rebus is the art of using pictures to represent words. As pre-k is filled with pre-readers, we do not expect for our students to come to us ready to read at the beginning of the school year. We can start teaching them decoding skills with rebus charts. Allow students to attempt deciphering the rebus chart before you read it to them, echo it with them, and read it together.
The old lady is back! Remember to allow students to take time and discuss what items they believe she will eat this time before reading the book title. In the book about her swallowing leaves, she created a scarecrow with the items that she ate. What will happen with the things that she eats this time?
Candy Corn Writing "Have a _____ Halloween"
Here's another fun graphic organizer that will take shape. So create a large candy corn cut out. The top reads "Have a", the second section remains empty, and the bottom reads "Halloween". Students suggest various words to fill in the blank and you write them all in.
