We started the day by re-reading Eric Carle's book The Very Busy Spider. Students enjoyed making the animal noises as I read. We completed a worksheet in which students had to tell whether or not the animal sound matched the animal. Students also showed me how much they comprehended from the story by illustrating what the spider did.

We made Halloween silhouettes, which are currently hanging in the hallway, but will be sent home on Friday. We started by painting a spooky sunset, and then traced, cut out, and glued a character or two. Students could choose a ghost, bat, or spooky cat. They turned out really cute!

At story time, I picked out some one's library book, Dinosaur Hunt. We talked about why people hunt and that "hunt" can also mean something other than killing for food, such as rock hunting, which just means finding rocks. The book mentioned that the story was set in Texas, 115 million years ago, which led to getting out the globe to find Texas, which led to finding all kinds of other places, etc. We had quite the discussion!