S.T.E.A.M. Storytime (ages 3-6 & grades K-4) Problem solving, creative dramatics, and the cycle of life – all celebrated with the orange icon of the fall season!
Book: Bear’s Bargain – Frank Asch (also published as Moonbear’s Bargain) (“have you ever wished you were big, or could fly?”..we tried flying with bear in the book -- clever problem solving).
Participatory Storytelling/Props: Big Pumpkin – from the book by Erica Silverman -- In this variant on the folktale, “The Great Big Enormous Turnip,” the witch, ghost, skeleton, and vampire are unable to pull up the pumpkin until a tiny bat ignores their derisive laughter and suggests they all work together. I sing/chant this to a tune from an old Scholastic recording – feel free to contact me if you want to learn the tune.
Non-Fiction Book: Rotten Pumpkin: A Rotten Tale in 15 Voices* – 577.16 SCHWARTZ – “UnCommon Core” at its best! -- Told in the first person by the pumpkin, mouse, squirrel, slug, fly, black rot, bread mold, sow bug, Penicillium, earthworm, yeast cell, slime mold, soil, and seed, this is science “on the hoof.” Wonderful writing & delightfully yucky photographs complete this unforgettable tour through the life cycle of a pumpkin that kids will find completely enGROSSing!
Book: Pumpkin Heads – Wendell Minor – great inspiration for unusual jack-o-lanterns.
Craft: Create either cute or gross pumpkins inspired by the books above. Materials: orange construction paper, scrap construction paper, goggly eyes, markers, stamp pads & cotton balls (to create simulated “rot”)
Music playing: Andrew Gold’s Halloween Howls
BWL 10.17
Ideas for Halloween engineering projects: http://leftbraincraftbrain.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&chash=0a09c8844ba8f0936c20bd791130d6b6.195
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