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OCTOBER |
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1
Write an advertisement about pumpkins that you have for sale. Be descriptive.
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2
Decide what you’ll be for Halloween. Write to your cousin and describe your costume.
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3
Make a leaf collection.
Mount them and label. |
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Read the story from yesterday and add expression. |
6
Make your own book. Illustrate it too.
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7
Take a walk with a friend. Write a poem about the leaves you saw.
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8
Go to the library and find books about bats.
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9
Write a message in a code that you invent. Send it to someone.
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10
Columbus Day
Read a book about Columbus. Write about what it would be like to discover a new world.
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11
Write a poem about your pet.
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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.
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14
Name your two favorite holidays. List how they are alike and different.
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15
Read a book to a friend. You may want to use one of your library books.
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16
Ask your mom or dad to tell you about a Halloween memory from their childhood.
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17
Exchange a book with your brother or sister.
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18
Write a Halloween poem.
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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
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22
Read Jack Prelutsky’s Halloween poems.
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23
Make a list of scary words.
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24
Make a sock puppet. Create a play.
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25
Tell what would happen if you met a ghost.
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Write a Halloween story. Read it to the family. |
27
Read Arthur’s Halloween.
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28
Read Clifford’s Halloween.
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29
List ten things found in your kitchen. Put them in ABC order.
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30
Describe your day with five juicy words.
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31
Find ten compound words in the newspaper. Rearrange them to make new words.
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WSRA Families and Literacy Committee
2007 |