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Halloween means doorsteps draped with costumed Frankensteins, witches, ghosts, ghouls, and vampires, and this is usually all children can talk about as the excitement builds. So naturally, this last week of the Monsters and Halloween theme focuses on those dependable monsters who show up every October 31st.

This week's focus on monsters includes Jack-O'-Lanterns in anticipation of the upcoming Halloween holiday. Jack-O'-Lanterns and their wide variety of expressions allow for extended classroom conversations about emotions. They also lend themselves well to a review of basic two-dimensional shapes, which is also a focus of the suggested materials for Week 3 of the Monsters and Halloween theme.

This week: Feelings and Emotions. The monster fun continues as children interact with more monster-themed materials. Start the week off with a reading of Glad Monster Sad Monster and spark a conversation about emotions: What are emotions?

This month’s preschool and kindergarten theme focuses on Monsters and Halloween. The KidsSoup Resource Library is stocked with all new preschool and kindergarten activities, games, rhymes, literacy ideas, and more designed to ease children’s fears while educating them at the same time.