Finger Puppets and Choral Reading

This activity promotes reading.  In our book, Jump Into Reading, we show children using puppets, anaother with a pointer and all joining in on the story of The Little Red Hen.  Each child should have a finger or stick puppet while one child leads the group through the reading.  To encourage everyone to participate we type up the words of the poem or story we are using, then take it to a copy center where we have it enlarged and laminated.  We've choosen to us stick puppets and finger puppets for our Halloween readings.

Materials Needed: popcicle sticks, fun foam or felt, Elmer's Glue, markers, enlarged poems, pointer

Instructions:

1 - Cut ghosts out of fun foam or felt, draw eyes.        Cut pumpkins our of fun foam or felt, draw eyes

      You may use googlie eyes if you have them.

2 - Glue ghost and pumpkins onto craft/popcicle sticks. Let glue dry before using.

Type or write the words of the two Halloween poems.  Have the words large enough so that one child, using a pointer, points to the words and the other children follow along.

Five Little Pumpkins

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate.

The first one said, "Oh, my it's getting late!"

The second one said, "There are witches in the air."

The third one said, "But we don't care."

The fourth one said, "Let's run, let's run!"

The fifth one said, "Isn't Halloween fun?"

Then Wooooo went the wind

And OUT went the lights.

And five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.

Five Little Ghosts

by Pam Sorensen

Five little ghosts out on Halloween night,

Flew up to the moon shinning ever so bright,

Down past the town, Oh what a fearful sight,

Five little ghosts out on Halloween night.