October 17: Preschool Storytime: Pumpkins

Opening song:                                 (Tune: "The Farmer in the Dell")

                         We tap hola like this

                         We tap hola like this

                          Hi-ho cherry

                          We tap hola like this

                          Continue with other verses:

                          We drop hola like this...

                          We circle hola like this...

                          We spin hola like this...

                          We toss hola like this...

                           We roll hola like this...

Put out a real pumpkin
Talked about the parts of a pumpkin and how a pumpkin grows
Letter Pp and its sound
Found it on the Alphabet chart
Talked about things that start with Pp
Made lowercase p in the air

Book: "Pumpkin Town" by Katie Mcky

Shaker and movement song: We sing the whole song in English and then change a few words to Spanish.

                                            “Did You Ever See a Pumpkin?”

(Tune: “Did You Ever See A Lassie”)

Did you ever see a pumpkin/a calabaza, a pumpkin/a calabaza, a calabaza? 

Did you ever see a pumpkin with no face at all? 

With no eyes/ojos, no nose/nariz, no mouth/boca, and no teeth/dientes? 

Did you ever see una pumpkin/calabaza, with no face/cara at all?

I made it into a jack-o-lantern, jack-o-lantern, jack-o-lantern. 

I made it into a jack-o-lantern with a big funny face/cara!

With big eyes/ojos, a big nose/nariz, a big mouth/boca, and big teeth/dientes. 

I made it into a jack-o-lantern with a big funny face/cara.

Book: "Pumpkin Soup" by Helen Cooper

Song: We sing the whole song in English and then change a few words to Spanish.

I put the pumpkin in the middle of the circle, and we danced around it.

"Ring Around the Pumpkin"
(Tune: "Ring Around the Rosie")

Ring around the pumpkin/calabaza
Pocket for of nuts/nueces
Leaves/hojas, leaves/hojas
They all fall down.

March around the pumpkin/calabaza

Pocket full of nuts/nueces
Leaves/hojas, leaves/hojas
They all fall down.

Stomp around the pumpkin/calabaza
Pocket full of nuts/nueces
Leaves/hojas, leaves/ hojas
They all fall down.

Tip-toe around the pumpkin/calabaza
Pocket full of nuts/nueces
Leaves/hojas, leaves/hojas
They all fall down.

Jump around the pumpkin/calabaza
Pocket full of nuts/nueces
Leaves/hojas, leaves/hojas
They all fall down.

Book: Ran out of time for a third story

Goodbye song:                               (Tune: "The Farmer in the Dell") 

                         We tap adios like this

                         We tap adios like this

                          Hi-ho cherry

                          We tap adios like this

                          Continue with other verses:

                          We drop adios like this...

                          We circle adios like this...

                          We spin adios like this...

                          We toss adios like this...

                           We roll adios like this...

Craft Time: 

Modeled both the Pp page and the craft before the children starting working on them

Pp Dot page: The children each completed a dot page for letter Pp. You can find these dot pages here. 


Pumpkin craft

Modified craft from https://alittlepinchofperfect.com to make it more accurate.

I let the children pick which three books I read from the ones I bring with me. These are some additional suggested books that the children didn't pick:

"The Bumpy Little Pumpkin" by Margery Cuyler

"Penguin and Pumpkin" by Salina Yoon

"Too Many Pumpkins" by Megan Lloyd