Circle Time Plans ~ October
Gathering Song(s): Mr. Sun
- Angel of God my Guardian Dear
Finger Plays:
- Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate (using small pumpkins as props)
- Where is Thumbkin?/Mr. Pumpkin
- Pumpkin, Pumpkin
- Four Little Leaves
- Leaves are Floating Down
(Tune: Where is Thumbkin)
Mr. Pumpkin,
Mr. Pumpkin,
Round and fat,
Round and fat.
Harvest time is coming,
Harvest time is coming.
Yum, yum, yum.
That is that!
Pumpkin, Pumpkin
Pumpkin, Pumpkin,
Sitting on the wall.
Pumpkin, Pumpkin,
Tip and fall.
Pumpkin, Pumpkin,
Rolling down the street.
Pumpkin, Pumpkin,
Good to eat!
Leaves Are Floating Down
Leaves are floating softly down (Flutter fingers)
They make a carpet on the ground (Spread hands apart)
Then swish! The wind comes whirling by (Bring hands around fast)
And sends them dancing in the sky (Flutter fingers upwards)
Calendar:
- Calendar work - Saint of the Day magnet, date magnet
- Vestments on priest
- Days of the Week/Months of the Year song
Seasonal Hymn:
The hymn of St. Francis
Puppet or Felt Board Story:
The Anxious Leaf
Books in the October book basket:
- Pumpkin Day, Pumpkin Night
- My Happy Pumpkin
- The Story of the Wind Children
- Our Guardian Angels Board Book
- Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
- It’s Fall!
2 comments:
since october is the Month of Mary, you should do something Marian also.
isn't May the month of Mary and October the month of the rosary? We made a do-a-dot rosary and hung it up and plan to try to say it as a family... maybe a decade each night... at some point.
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