There Is No Better Way To Become A Saint Than To Learn From Their Examples

     This week has been such a crazy hectic week with doctor appointments to get to, physical therapy sessions, and morning play group. Add these things to the craziness that Halloween and All Saints Day week brings I am just ready for the week-end. Hopefully you all had a little less hectic week. With all the crazyiness I am actually relieved I made this another review week. Since we did lots of review the majority of the activities we worked on are repeats of activies you can find more specifics to in all my past weekly theme posts. Because of that fact I did not take hardly any photos.

     I know there are Catholics out there who are not huge fans of celebrating Halloween and there are also non -Catholics who do not celebrate All Saints Day. No biggie. There are things in this week for both.

Monday:Why We Celebrate Halloween and All Saints Day/Review "Aa" and "Bb" Vocab Words/Review Uppercase Letters A-J

Books: A is For Apple by Tiger Tales
Animal Orchistra by Tibor Gergely
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat by Lucille Colandro
Halloween by Molly Aloian
My First Dictionary
Saint story from child's saint book

Songs: Apples and Bananas by Raffi
Baby Beluga by Raffi
Purle People Eater
When the Saints Go Marching In

Activities: Review the letter "Aa" and "Bb" vocabulary from the picture dictionary

Art fun

Bubble play

Free block play

String beads

Review uppercase letters. Play matching game and take turns finding the matching letters. At this age I leave the cards face up for them to search for the matches.

Intro Halloween. What it is and why we celebrate it.

Intro All Saints Day. Explain what it is and why it is important. Explain how God wants us all to be saints. How every person who make ot to Heaven is a saint.

Tuesday: Jack O'Lantern Fun/Review "Cc" and "Dd" Vocabulary/ Review Numbers 1-5
Books:Corduroy by Don Freeman
The Ugly Duckling
1 2 3 by Villie Karabatzia
My First Halloween Book by Colleen L. Reece
Clifford's Halloween by Norman Bridwell
My First Dictionary
A saint story from child's saint book

Songs: Sally the Camel
Five Little Ducks
5 Little Pumpkins
For All the Saints

Activities: Review "Cc" and "Dd" vocab words.

Play with shaving cream

Play with corn kernals

Playdough fun

Review numbers 1-5. Write numbers 1 -5 on seperate pieces of paper. Have the child do a new action move on their way to whatever number you call out.

Pumpkin carving fun. Initially I was going to have my kid paint his pumpkin, but he had no interest in painting it. I finally carved it into a shape sorter jack o'lantern. He had days of fun playing with his pumpkin puzzle.

Play with pumkin insides

Jack o lantern activity. Cut out shapes for your kid to put together his own paper jack o'lantern

Wednesday: Ghost Fun/Review "Ee" and "Ff: vocab/Review Lowercase letters a-j
Books:Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John.Archambault
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox
Halloween by Gail Gibbons
Franklin's Halloween by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark
My First Dictionary
A Saint Story from a child's Saint book

Songs: Willoughby Walloughby Raffi
5 Green and Speckled Frogs
Monster Mash
With All the Saints In Glory

Activities:

Review "Ee" and "Ff" vocabulary words with picture dictionary

Dried beans sensory play for empty/full

Review lower case a-j with the same type of matching game as Monday

Foot print ghosts-with a halloween type background use white paint on child's feet to make cute ghosts.

Halloween trick-or-treating night

                       The Incredible Hulk

Thursday: All Saint's Day Fun/Review "Gg" and "Hh" Vocabulary/Practice Tracing and Scissor Skills 
Books: God Made You Special by Greg Fritz
Eeyore, Be Happy by Don Ferguson
The Perky Little Pumpkin by Margaret Friskey
My First Dictionary
A Saint story from a child's Saint book

Songs: God Is Bigger Than the Boogie Man from Veggie Tales
Holy Spirit by Francesca Battistelli
Ghostbusters
Heffalumps and Woozles
Littany of the Saints

Activities:
Review "Gg" and "Hh" vocabulary words

Play with gak

Play with the hair gel packets

Play with saint peg dolls

Dress child up as a Saint for All Saints Day Mass

                      St. Anthony of Padua

Friday: All Souls Day/Review "Ii" and "Jj" Vocab/ Review all Aa-Jj Vocab Activity
Books:Insect Detector by Anita Holmes
The Lemon Drop Jar by Christine Widmen
My First Dictionary
A Saint story from a child's Saint book

Songs: Jesus Loves Me This I know
Inch Worm by Kenny Loggins
The Witch Doctor
We Walk By Faith

Activities:

Review "Ii" and "Jj" picture vocab from dictionary

Put up the both the uppercase and lowercase letters "Aa" through "Jj" throughout the house. Help the child review each letter's vocab coloring page and then find the right letters the work pages matched with.

Play with insects in a sensory table

Work on jigsaw puzzles

Introduce All Souls Day. Pray a family Rosary together in honor of family members who have passed away.

How did you all celebrate Halloween and All Saints Day. Any cute costume ideas for future reference? Please share your ideas.