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Halloween & Christmas Activity and Music Sheets in October Newsletter

NOTE: In this version of the Newsletter, the links are not clickable.
and you can't see the fancy graphics.
To see a version with clickable links and images, go here:
October 2010 Newsletter

Here are f r e e ActivitySheets, MusicSheets and
SongSheets to go with the most popular songs. I will be adding
more printable sheets every month.
The newsletter will let you know when new sheets are available.

1. Selected ActivitySheets
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Five Little Pumpkins (counting)
Black Shadows (drawing, coloring)
Funny Halloween (writing)
Halloween is Coming Soon (observation)
Farmer in the Dell (reading)
Dry Bones (reading)
Five Little Monkeys (counting)
Three Blind Mice (counting, writing)
The Cat Came Back (writing)

Download more ActivitySheets here:
http://www.kididdles.com/activitysheets_home.html

2. Selected SongSheets
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Dark Halloween
I Am a Little Ghostie
Halloween is Coming Soon
Ten Green Bottles
The 12 Days of Halloween
Five Little Pumpkins
Can You Dance the Hulla-Baloney?
Funny Halloween
Three Little Witches

See all the SongSheets here:
http://www.kididdles.com/songsheets_home.html

3. Christmas MusicSheets
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Jingle Bells
Angels We Have Heard on High
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
Merry Christmas Baby Jesus
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Ring Merrily, Bells
Ring the Bells of Christmas
Sleep Little Child in the Manger
Away in a Manger

Check out the MusicSheets (f r e e sheet music) here:
http://www.kididdles.com/musicsheets_home.html

4. Halloween and Christmas are Coming
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* This time of year teachers, parents and children start to
look forward to Halloween and Christmas. You can see all our
Halloween songs in our Scarey, Spooky songs section:
http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics/spookysongs.html

* We now have MusicSheets for about 30 of the most popular
Christmas songs:
http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics/christmas.html

5. Where the Wild Things Are - signed book
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In 1987, I was fortunate to meet Maurice Sendak at an authors
conference in Berkley, California. He kindly autographed two of
his books for me and they have been among my prized possessions
for more than twenty years.

I am now ready to give-up the books in the name of spreading the
word about www.ReadingLessons.com. I'm sure Mr. Sendak would
approve. If you would like these books, see below.

I am going to give-away these books in a random drawing which will
be made on Thanksgiving Day (November 25th).

All you have to do is recommend ReadingLessons.com to three of your
friends or colleagues and you will be entered into the drawing.
Click on the "Tell a Friend" button on ReadingLessons.com:
http://www.readinglessons.com

You get one entry for every three people you recommend. Recommend
30 and get 10 entries, no limit-but they must be genuine email
addresses (the three people recommended in the winning entries
will also win a small prize). All three must be genuine email
addresses, if any are not, a new drawing will be made.

On Thanksgiving Day:
1. The first name picked will win the signed copy of Where the
Wild Things Are.
2. The second picked will win the signed copy of In The Night
Kitchen.
3. Third name picked will win the first book in the Tommy Tales
series that I wrote -- The School Lunch Room and I will sign it
personally for the winner.

I heard Maurice Sendak being interviewed on NPR at the time the
movie Where the Wild Things Are came out, and he said that he not
done any book signings for many years, so these two of his books
are are quite rare.

Good Luck,

6. Even More Great Websites
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People ask me where I find websites with great free stuff.
Here's the secret, I always start by looking through the sites on
Sites for Teachers. You'll always find something interesting on
this site:
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/cgi-bin/in.cgi?id=terry

That's all for now, I'll be in touch soon.
Keep on Singing!

Francis