Happy Halloween
A Pirates Lesson for X

Introducing the letter X that marks the spot!

Find the path to the x spot of treasure.

Talk to the tot's about what they like an extra lot. Place an X on the map. There is a blindfold included in this lesson. Hide the treasure and let the tots use a map to find it. X out the hidden pictures on the pirate ship.Count the coins in the treasure chest. The coins are in the shape of a ? (Circle)

X out the pictures hidden

Music

Turn on some pirate music. Mark the floor with an x using masking tape. Circle the floor to the music and stop when the music stops. Who is standing on the X?

Story: 

A pirate story of your picking or "Xmatic"

 

 

 

 

 

Roll a cube. when you land on x, then read a page from the 4 page mini word book about x.

Snack

Serve pretzels that the tot turns into an x.

Take Home

Cut out the hat from black paper. Lay the template over the top of the black paper and cut out. 
Cut out and assemble the treasure box. You can fill it with candy if desired. Run out a copy of the bones and have them cut out so as  they are ready to glue to black construction paper for an x-ray. Have the tot write in chalk,  "x-ray for the take home page. The color of the day is black and white. 

Summary: letter-x colors-black & white, round circle coins, counting with coins, learning to cross out with an x, what is worth extra 

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 Letter Lessons for H and for M

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H is for a Happy Halloween

Introduction:  

H- is        h-h- h -o- t 

How many Hands? (2 hands) What can your hands do? (They can write) Have the tot's write a capital and lowercase Hh (Big and small Hh). Your hands can touch. Put in a lunch sack things that come from a harvest that a farmer plants and let the blind folded tot guess the harvest pick. The farmer plants the seed and then picks the harvest. That might be corn, beans, a small pumpkin, apples, etc. Put in proper sequence, from seed to harvest (My Pumpkin Jack)

Do the sequencing following the "My Pumpkin Jack Story"

A Happy Halloween Harvest Story

Use these finger puppets

                         

The Short Version
8 mini pages

Board story and pieces

Have a harvest dinner.

Happy Halloween!.

A Happy Halloween Mini Book

        

Halloween discussion:

How many have seen a haunted house. Does it make you happy? Tell the magnetic story of "Hansel & Gretel". Hansel and Gretel had a happy home, but the witch lived in an unhappy home. When they hear with their ears then the tots will stay away from stranger danger and are happy. Ask the tots what makes them happy. Hansel and Gretel thought that the candy house would make them happy, but it did not. Have them listen to a recording of different sounds like a dog barking, a baby crying, music, a bell, etc. Guess the different sounds you hear.

Match the house to the one living in it.

 

What kind of house-home do you live in?

How heavy?

  Match the 2 Happy Jack o' lanterns  that are alike

Music:("2 Little Hands" or "Hinges" from the LDS children's song book), "When You're Happy & Your Know It", magnetic bee hive 1-2-3-4-5 verse, 

Snack: honey and bread (bee farmer will harvest the bees honey, haunted graham cracker houses

Story "Hansel & Gretel"

 

Whose head is under that hat? (activitiy) 
Gather hats of all kinds (baseball, chef, witch, sombrero, fire hat, police hat etc.

Match whose head is under that hat? Which hat had a witch head under that hat?





Take Home Project:
A haunted house

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You will need Halloween Stickers, glue, a cardstock copy of the haunted house and scissors. Cut out the house ahead for the tot and assemble. They will decorate.

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Make a haunted bat

You will need: 1 small section cut from an egg carton. 1 pair of small wiggly eyes.

 Copy the bat wings and cut out. Tape or glue the wings on the carton. Color the bat wings.

Play:Play a game of hide and seek.

Field trips:   Harvest a pumpkin. Visit a pumpkin patch and pick out a pumpkin. Go on a hayride.

Summary:  letter-Hh for a Happy Halloween, number 2 (2 hands)  (5 bees in a hive), color-orange for Halloween or yellow for the hive, 

Concepts: what is a harvest, what can our hands do, Halloween makes you happy or scared?

Have a Halloween party. What can you hear? How Heavy?

Materials used from Tot Funetics:

• Magnetic Board Stories (Hansel & Gretel)
• 5 Bees In a Hive Verse from the Number Verses Book
• A Halloweeen Haunted House to decorate with stickers (Patterns Book)
• HandBook of Mastery 
  Card letter ideas
• Lesson Activities with harvest happy jack o' lantern pumpkins 

M- is for a Monster Mash
Have them come in their monster costumes.

                 

          

Introduction:  h

   

Have them do a monster match to help their memory. 

Do some
Monster Math

cut out monsters 
group them in 6 jack o'lanterns, 4 witches, 3 mummies, 5 ghosts, and one Frankenstein
now do some monster simple math while you play the song, 
"The Monster Mash" 


"Monster Math" 

Listen to the Music and Guess which song it is. 

It    Melts  Activity

Let the tots see butter & mallows melt for the marshmallow treats. get a bowl and place an ice cube in it. Let it melt for view in class.

Mini 4 Page Letter M Book

It Melts

Music:   
"Monster Mash" song
Cut out as many copied monsters as you need to place around in a circle. The tots will march around the monsters to the music. When the music stops draw a monster to see who wins that is standing on the Monster Mash pick. 
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Do the 5 Little Monkeys Verse with magnetics.

A Song On Manners "Just Say Please And Thank You"

Snack milk, melted marshmellow cookies, or monster cup cakes (place a marble on each side of the cup cake liner to shape the skeleton head. Let them frost &  place chocolate chip eyes  & almond slivers on for the teeth.

Story

 A Monster With Bad Manners Spoiled the Mood

This monster had "M" things for his meal

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test the tots memory of this monster "M" storyy

Take Home Activity: 

Marshmallow Mummy Monster Mask 

Cut out the round mask and eyeholes.  

Glue to a paper plate.

Each tot will have a bowl of marshmallows with marshmallow cream or glue sticks. cut a long stretchy string (craft bead aisle) and tie at each end. You can use yarn to tie around the head if you wish. The tots glue on the mallows for a take home monster mask.

Play: 

Have them dress up for a runway of monsters.
Monster Bingo

 

 


Cards for the Monster Bingo

Run off the Monsters & then cut out for the the "Monster Mash". Draw a monster to find out who is on it when the music stops.

Field trips:   

Go to a farm and watch them milk a cow. 

Summary:  

Letter Mm for Monster Mash , 5 Monkeys, milk

 and marshmallows/white, round circle paper plate mask

Concepts: marching, Monster Math, Manners (saying please & thank you), memory matching and What Melts?

Ideas taken from the Tot Funetics Program\

These ideas taken from Tot Funetics

• Monsters for the mash and math (Lesson Activities)
• Mini Letter "M" for "It Melts" Book
• Letter M Mastery Card from the HandBook Step 1
• 5 Little Monkeys (Number Verses)
• My Books 
• "One Mean Monster With Bad Manners Can Spoil the Mood"-Book