October

This month follows these theme related ideas:

Shape:	Square
*Color*:	Orange
Nursery Rhyme:	Little Miss Muffet
Song:	Itsy Bitsy Spider
*Suggested Stories:*	Pumpkins, Pumpkins by Jeanne Titherinton Apples and Pumpkins by Anne F. Rockwell
*Sensory Material:*	Beans and peas

MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI
Color a picture using 3 different colors.	Sing the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" song.	Trace various sizes of squares for your child to cut.	Glue squares on paper or a paper place to create a square collage.	Play catch with a small bean bag animal.
Snip orange paper with scissors.	Go the the public library and help your child get a library card and check out two books.	Read the "Little Miss Muffet" nursery rhyme and let your child act out the part of Miss Muffet.	Pour a bag of dried peas or beans into the sensory pan.	Make a nature bracelet.
Walk around your neighborhood looking for the color orange.	Read a book. Talk about what happened in the beginning and at the end.	Have your child draw a self-portrait. Date and keep the picture.	Go on a scavenger hunt in your house and look for squares.	Paint or color a paper plate orange. Add a stem to create a pumpkin.
Talk about what you will do and see tomorrow when you visit the pumpkin patch.	Visit a pumpkin patch. Purchase a pumpkin.	Have your child draw a picture of you at the pumpkin patch.	Carve a pumpkin. Dry seeds on a newspaper.	Count pumpkin seeds in groups of 10. Bake them for a snack.

BUSINESS HOURS

La Crosse Office
Monday thru Thursday 8:30AM-5PM
Friday 8:30AM-3PM
Closed first Thursday of each month.

Monroe County Offices
Monday thru Friday 8AM-4PM*
Closed first Tuesday of each month.

*Hours can vary based on schedules

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