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.

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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: 

• Five Little Pumpkins Sittng on a Gate
• Five Little Pumpkins Round
• Mr. Scarecrow's Jack o'Lantern
• Literacy Activities About Pumpkins

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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:

• Aikendrum
• Climb Aboard the Spaceship
• Five Astronauts Went Up in Space
• Here is the World
• Moon Moon Moon
• Zoom Zoom Zoom

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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:

• Brown Squirrel
• Climb a Tree
• Down Around the Corner by the Big Oak Tree
• Five Little Leaves Are Hanging on the Tree
• Raking Leaves
• Signs of Fall
• The Trees Are Growing

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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: 

• Four Colorful Flies
• The Itsy Bitsy Spider/The Giant Spider
• Little Miss Muffet (song) 
• One Elephant Went Out to Play
• There's a Spider on the Floor