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
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
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
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
