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Calendar of Ideas

OCTOBER
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
 

1
Write an advertisement about pumpkins that you have for sale.  Be descriptive.

2
Decide what you’ll be for Halloween.  Write to your cousin and describe your costume.

3
Make a leaf collection.

Mount them and label.

4
Read a spooky story.

5
Family Reading Day

Read the story from yesterday and add expression.

6
Make your own book.  Illustrate it too.

7
Take a walk with a friend. Write a poem about the leaves you saw.

8
Go to the library and find books about bats.

9
Write a message in a code that you invent.  Send it to someone.

10
Columbus Day

Read a book about Columbus.  Write about what it would be like to discover a new world.

11
Write a poem about your pet.

12
Family Reading Day

Visit the library and select a book about Halloween.

13
Using the word Halloween, make a list of all of the words you can make using those letters.

14
Name your two favorite holidays.  List how they are alike and different.

15
Read a book to a friend.  You may want to use one of your library books.

16
Ask your mom or dad to tell you about a Halloween memory from their childhood.

17
Exchange a book with your brother or sister.

18
Write a Halloween poem.

19
Family Reading Day

Read a chapter form a book together.

20
Create a new game with your brothers and sisters.

Write the directions.

21

Read Big Pumpkin, by Erica Silverman

22
Read Jack Prelutsky’s Halloween poems.

23
Make a list of scary words.

24
Make a sock puppet.  Create a play.

25
Tell what would happen if you met a ghost.

26
Family Reading Day

Write a Halloween story. Read it to the family.

27
Read Arthur’s Halloween.

28
Read Clifford’s Halloween.

29
List ten things found in your kitchen. Put them in ABC order.

30
Describe your day with five juicy words.

31
Find ten compound words in the newspaper.  Rearrange them to make new words.

WSRA Families and Literacy Committee

2007

 

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