Join the Startleson kids as they explore their spooky attic for Halloween treasures. Enter the dusty, dark and cluttered space—if you dare—to hunt costumes, critters, skulls, old dolls, pumpkins, goblins and ghosts. Watch out for spider webs and be careful not to trip over black cats and black hats! You’ll find plenty of Halloween fun as you solve puzzles, finish jack-o-lantern patterns, explore masks for matching features and figure out the tricky pathway to get candy into the grinning pumpkin bucket. Never mind those eerie noises coming from inside old trunks … it’s just Halloween friends—and fiends—wanting to come out and play!
In this issue young goblins will:
- Locate Halloween finds in an attic
- Practice fine motor skills by following a spooky pathway
- Find matching masks
- Complete a pumpin pattern using observation skills
- Create a personal math word problem from today’s news
- Gather and share your favorite Halloween jokes
- Search the newspaper to spell Halloween words
- Use parts of speech to finish a silly holiday story
- Look closely to find differences and similarities in costumes
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