Friday, September 2, 2016

October Story Time Themes

To assist you in planning your story times for next month, here are some themes I like to use in October.

Pumpkins

Suggested Books:

  • Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin by Tad Hills
  • Pumpkin Heads! by Wendell Minor
  • It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse! by Laura Numeroff
  • Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell
  • Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman (Audio version with song available here.)
  • This is Not a Pumpkin by Bob Staake
  • The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda D. Williams


Extension Activities: 




Moon


Suggested Books:

  • I Want to be an Astronaut by Byron Barton 
  • Moonlight by Helen V. Griffith
  • Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
  • The Mouse Who Ate the Moon by Petr Horacek
  • Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli
  • The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Tracey Pearson Campbell
  • Owl Moon by Jane Yolen


Extension Activities:




Fall

Suggested Books:

  • The Little Yellow Leaf by Carin Berger
  • Kitten's Autumn by Eugenie Fernandes 
  • Fall Leaves Fall by Zoe Hall
  • Fall is Not Easy by Marty Kelley
  • When Autumn Falls by Kelli Nidey
  • Leaves by David Ezra Stein
  • Ol' Mama Squirrel by David Ezra Stein
  • The Very Busy Squirrel by Nancy Tafuri 


Extension Activities:



Spiders


Suggested Books: 

  • The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
  • The Eensy Weensy Spider Freaks Out Big Time by Troy Cummings
  • Be Nice to Spiders by Margaret Bloy Graham
  • The Eensy Weensy Spider by Mary Ann Hoberman
  • Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti by Gerald McDermott
  • The Itsy Bitsy Spider by Iza Trapani 

Extension Activities: 

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