Witches, Ghosts & Mummies

Learning Goal: I have feelings. I can talk about them with my family and friends.

• Reading= Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson, There's a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer and Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. Letter of the day= W is for witch.
  
• Art= Make 4 handprint ghosts using white finger paint on black paper. Complete by adhering googley eyes to upside down handprints, and adding mouths expressing different emotions. Fine art: The Scream by Edward Munch. Demonstrate how to draw different feelings on a face (sad, happy, mad and scared). For inspiration look at the simple illustrations in The Feelings Book by Todd Park.
• Music= Sing "If you’re happy (scared, mad, sad, tired) and you know it make a face". Practice making different faces in a mirror. Talk about things that make you feel better when you're unhappy or frightened. See how easy it is to change a frown into a smile!
• Science= Experiment with dry ice (CO₂) for some witchy magic. 1) Melt dry ice and an ice cube on two different plates. One leaves a puddle and the other turns into an invisible gas! 2) Put dry ice and a little warm water in a Halloween balloon. Watch the balloon quickly expand! 3) Taste some apple juice before and after adding dry ice. The dry ice turns the juice into sparkling cider! 4) Add dry ice to soapy water for instant bubble mania. Pop the bubbles to release the fog!
• Play= Wrap candies in a roll of toilet tissue and you're ready to play the mummy wrap. Wrap tissue around a body part until a prize is found. Tear the paper and pass the roll to the next player. Continue until all the prizes have been unrolled and you have a group of mini mummies. Make mummy face pizzas out of English muffins, string cheese and olive slices for eyes.