Halloween

Halloween...Oh my!  Not much more needs to be said!  It's a big, fun, loud, crazy holiday at my school.  All week the boys are vibrating in anticipation of the big day.  This year in the library we celebrated the holiday by reading a monster book and making monster bookmarks.  It ended up being a good activity...who doesn't love a good monster book, and the boys love to make things especially anything that involves origami.


We started by reading The Monsters' Monster by Patrick McDonnell.  It's a story that gives a nod to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but then quickly adds its own twists.  Other favorite monster books include Mo Willems' Leonardo the Terrible Monster and Jackie Koller's No Such Thing.

Following the story we made monster bookmarks.  I found directions for these bookmarks at CT Baker in the Acres.  They are cute, easy to personalize, and the directions she gives are easy to follow.  I did this with our prefirst and first grade classes.

 Here are our prefirst graders proudly displaying their monsters munching on the corners of their library books.

Awwwww....Halloween!!