School Readiness Calendar - Flipbook - Page 9
Sunday
Monday
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Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Notes:
Saturday
National
Homemade Cookies
Day
1
Take your
child for a walk and
collect leaves
3
National
Taco Day
4
Talk to
your child about
avoiding strangers
10
Learn the
THRILLER DANCE
(Michael Jackson)
17
Talk about
Trick or
Treating
Safety
Halloween
24/31
National Do
Something Nice Day
5
Cut pictures of
expressive faces
from magazines and
make a feelings
collage
11
Pick your own
pumpkin. Carve a
pumpkin with your
child. Cook the
seeds for a
snack
18
Draw a tree
trunk, Cut an apple
in half and dip in
red paint. Stamp it
all over your drawn
tree trunk
25
Make a leaf
collage
6
Play I Spy with
numbers
12
7
Have a photoshoot
in a leaf pile
13
Read a Halloween
Story
19
26
Pick out
a costume
Practice counting to
20 while your child
washes their hands
27
Bake some
Halloween treats for
your neighbors
14
20
Make a fun
dinner together
Draw
pictures with
your child about
family events and
experiences
Make a bat cave
fort and find out
facts about bats
in books from the
library
21
28
2
New Moon
8
15
22
Orange week: look
for things that are
orange this week
23
Make or buy
Halloween treats
to give away for
Halloween night
Farmers Markets
Cortez: Saturday mornings & 3rd Thursdays • Dolores: Wednesday afternoons • Mancos: Thursday afternoon
Make a
grocery shopping
list together
16
Full moon
29
Go on a
hayride at a local
farm with your
child
9
Check out a library
book, don‛t forget to
get your child their
very own library card
Create a necklace
using dental floss and
cereal O‛s
Book of
the month, Leaves
by David Ezra
Stein
Make a web
between a doorway
with painter‛s tape.
Throw balls of
paper at the web
30
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