BOOK WEEK

FANTASTIC IDEA -
Choose a group of people from your school that would be easy to recognize by their voice...principal, librarian, team teacher, P.E. Coach...
Choose a primary book for each person that would tie into what they do...
Send a note to each person asking them to read a selection to be taped.
Note:  ________ Grade would like to have a tape made for National Book Week.  On this tape, we would like you to read a selection from ________ into a tape recorder.  Do Not give your name or the name of the book.  We are hoping the students will have fun listening to the selections and guessing the reader's identification and the book's name.  If you could help us, please let me know and I will set up a time (convenient to you)with the tape recorder for you.  We appreciate you doing this for us.  Sincerely, _________

CAT TALES AND SPOOKY STORIES

SKELETON DRESS UP

FIRE SAFETY COLOR BY NUMBER

FIRE SAFETY CAN

Take empty vegetable can - make sure there are no sharp edges.  Try to find plastic lids that will fit the cans.  Students decorate worksheet.  Send home to have emergency numbers filled out by parents.  When student brings it back, glue paper onto can.  Once it is home, parents can fill it with baking soda and put by the stove.  Taken from Frank Schaffer.

FIRE FIGHTER'S HAT

Taken from COPYCAT PRESS - (out of print)

WITCHES' BREW OVERHEAD ACTIVITY

                                                                                                                                                                     Exciting Halloween Project.  Listen to the song  until the students are singing along.  Get out the overhead machine and do the activity.  Brainstorm some items that can go into a brew.  Discuss ways to mix a brew.   Write and Proof.  Hand out paper for students to make a neat 'final copy'.  Color.  Find a witch to post in the hallway with the caldron.  Place student writing all around. Listen to your students hum and sing the song everytime they pass the display.  Put the student writing in Journal/Memory book when you take down.

  

GO TO THIS SITE TO LISTEN TO SONG:

http://www.imeem.com/alec7/music/3PxmjXGV/hap-palmer-witches-brew/  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3foTIHscfzs

Action:
"Dead leaves, seaweed..."
Children pretend to throw ingredients in a cauldron.
"Stir them in my witches' brew." Children do stirring motion.
"I got magic, Alakazamakazoo." Children pretend to cast spell using any hand movements they feel are appropriate.
"Boo!" Make a sudden scary movement.

ALTERNATIVE BREW

PAPER PLATE SKELETON ART/SCIENCE PROJECT

LARGE SKELETON THAT CAN BE EASILY LABELED WITH BODY PARTS. Place pieces on (cheap, thin) paper plates, trace, and cut.  Make sure you cut 8 arms/legs.  Punch holes and use string to put together.  Label as appropriate to grade level.  Hang in hallway or from ceiling.  Listen to Dem Bones song as doing project as a class or can be a CENTER PROJECT.

NUMBER WEB SEQUENCING

          GREAT CENTER ACTIVITY - COPYCAT PRESS (out of print)

PUMPKIN FACT WHEEL - Copycat Press (Out of Print)

This is such a cute idea for the grade levels that are focusing on math facts.  In Third Grade, I sent it home for the students to do with their parents.  But in the lower grades, we enjoyed putting them together in class.