Halloween Week
October 25-31, 2017
Book of the week:
Creepy Carrots by: Aaron Reynolds
Ten Timid Ghosts by: Jennifer O’Connell
Pete the Cat Five Little Pumpkins by: James Dean
Jokes of the week:
Why was the Jack-O-Lantern afraid to cross the road? (He had no guts!)
What does a ghost do to stay safe in a car? (He puts on his sheet belt!)
Why did the witches cancel their baseball game? (They couldn’t find their bats!)
Homework: After you telling the joke to your child/or him telling you the joke, ask them to explain why it was funny.
Games/Activities of the week:
· Halloween Bingo (Articulation)
· Ned’s Scary Head (Describing Game)
· Making a ghost craft activity (Following Directions/Listening/Sequencing)
· Role Playing Halloween Trick or Treating (Pragmatic Language/Articulation)
· Candy Comparison (compare/contrast, describing)
· Adjective Mad Libs
· Spider Snacks
· Parents send in picture of your child on Halloween. Students will tell a personal narrative trying to include people, setting, 2-3 events
Homework: you can use some of your child’s words from their take-home sheets to play bingo, wear a blind fold and have them describe the taste, feel, texture, etc of candy, ask them to tell you the steps of making the ghost
General Halloween Conversational Questions:
1) Do you dress up for Halloween? What were you last year? What are you going to be this year?
2) What is your favorite candy? What is your least favorite candy?
3) Tell about Halloween traditions from your family. Jack O Lanterns, Pumpkin Patch, etc?
4) Would you go to a Haunted House? Why or why not?
Articulation (all words from the books of the week):
Homework: 10 words will come home on bats, candy, or moons to practice. Practice words at least 5x each. Students can also borrow one of the book to read aloud at home to practice their sounds. There are additional practice words listed below:
/r/: fourth, air, there, were, third, care, read, rolled, carrots, scared, rat, run, clever, her, angry, dark, fair, monster, tore, breathing, threw, toothbrush, vampire, Crackenhopper, grew, crisp, creepy, screamed, ridiculous, Jasper, door, Trick or Treat, parents, real, wrong, rabbit, terrible, heard, bedroom
/s/: scared, skeleton, screamed, monster, spider, first, school, snack, started, strange, smiled, supplies, Saturday, house, ghosts, six, sitting, second, sun, pumpkins, six, seven, crisp, some, something, soft, sinister, slowly, son, dresser, searched, closet, seeing, Frankenstein, tombstone, scarecrow, costumes,
/sh/: shed, she, passion, brushing, shaking, shadows, sure, shaped, imagination, shouted
/th/: then, breathing, thumped, threw, through, thing, them, three, together, third, fourth, fifth, nothing, imagination, thought, toothbrush, teeth, there, they
/ch/ & /j/: just, Jasper, strange, hatched, patch, cheered, searched, reached, approached, such, witch, imagination
/l/: laughed, later, late, lights, little, Halloween, following, clever, looked, houl, ghoul, old, skeleton, school, smiled, terrible, ridiculous, jack-o-lantern, owl, league, supplies, plan, finally
/f/ and /v/: flew, moved, laugh, heaven, seven, dive, five, vampire, four, brave, fourth, fifth, laughed, Frankenstein, fat, field, free, for, from, few, following, valley, soft, first, faster, himself, floor, arrived, evening, everywhere, finally, enough
/k/ & /g/: ghost, ghoul, cat, dark, tricky, trick or treat, good, pumpkin, gate, creepy, carrots, crisp, crackenhopper, grew, game, kind, taking, snack, school, practice, ground, get, victory, against, tunktunktunk, ridiculous, coming, wrong, grabbed, again
Language (from Ten Timid Ghosts):
Wh-questions:
1.) What were the four ways did the ghosts feel?
2.) Why were the ghosts scared of the witch?
3.) What were some of the things she used to scare the ghosts?
4.) How did the ghosts scare the witch and get her out?
5.) Who lived in the story at the end of the book?
Drawing conclusions/Inferencing:
1.) Why were the ghosts angry at the witch?
2.) What kind of party were the ghosts having at the end of the story?
3.) Will the witch come back? Why or why not?
Feelings:
1.) What does timid mean? Who felt timid in the story? When have you felt timid?
2.) What does clever mean? Who felt clever in the story? Why was that ghost clever when the others were timid? Can you think of a time you were clever?
3.) What does angry mean? Who felt angry in the story? Why did they feel angry? What makes you angry?
4.) What does brave mean? When were the ghosts brave? Can you think of a time you were brave?
Language (from Pete the Cat Five Little Pumpkins):
1.) Use timing words to retell the story
2.) Sequence pictures from story using timing words
Language (from Creepy Carrots):
Wh-Questions:
1.) Who is the main character of the story?
2.) What is the main idea of the story?
3.) What does Jasper like to eat?
4.) What sport did Jasper play?
5.) Why did the carrots start following Jasper?
Drawing conclusions/Inferencing:
1.) Were the carrots really following Jasper?
2.) Why did Jasper’s parents not believe the carrots were following Jasper?
3.) Why were the carrots happy to have the fence built around the carrot patch?
4.) Will Jasper ever pull carrots from that patch again? Do you think he will find a new patch of carrots?
Feelings:
1.) How did Jasper feel about carrots following him?
2.) How did Jasper feel once the fence was built?
3.) How did the carrots feel about Jasper eating so many of them?
4.) How do the carrots feel once the fence was built?
Sequencing/Retell/Describe/Compare/Contrast
· Retell the events of the story using timing words such as first, next, third, finally
· Use pictures to sequence the story
· Sequence the steps of making ghosts (with pictures, without pictures)
· Compare/Contrast the different candy (taste, look, size, etc)
Homework: Ask your child questions listed above, or explore more Halloween books asking similar questions to those above.
Vocabulary:
Discuss meaning of words, Identify antonyms/synonyms, Use words in sentences, Context Clues etc.
1.) Timid
2.) Brave
3.) Clever
4.) Angry
Homework: Ask your child the definition of these words or to use them in a sentence.