Halloween in the Speech Room!

Happy Halloween from my speech room to yours. We have been doing festive activities for the last few weeks so of course,  this week was no exception.

This week, Spookley visited my PreK and Kindergarten speech and language groups. Let me tell you, he gave the Big Green Monster a run for his money! The kids had a great time learning about Spookley and why it is important that we are all different and special. I downloaded the Spookley story app for $1.99 and used the iPad to tell the story to the kids (much more exciting than me!) This story is great for targeting shapes and colors, comprehension, and social skills.

I created my own Spookley out of an empty cube tissue box!

After we read the story, I let the students choose what shape pumpkin they would like to be: square, circle, triangle, or rectangle. They were then able to decorate their pumpkins however they wanted to. I asked them, "If you were a pumpkin, what would you like to look like?" They had a lot of fun with this! I also attached a little note about Spookley and why the pumpkins were all different shapes and colors (so mom and dad didn't think I was crazy!)

The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin!

Spookley is a very special pumpkin we met this week. He was not round like the other pumpkins, he was a square. Spookley taught us how important it is to be different and special! If I was a pumpkin, I would be

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I also wanted to share one other activity that turned out really well. I let one of my students write on chart paper (motivation to actually write!) and we wrote a poem together.

Have a very Happy Halloween!! What did you do today?