Fall Activities in the Special Education Classroom

I love October!! It is my favorite month. Fall is here 🍂, decorations are up🎃, and it's my birthday month 🎂! 

October is also a fun time in the classroom. Each year we take a field trip to a farm for a petting zoo, pumpkin patch, and hayride! It is a great way to kick off the month. 

It is one of my favorite months for our thematic units too. We finish our Apples Unit from September, then go into Fall & Leaves, and end the month with Halloween of course! 

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My favorite books for Halloween are Big Pumpkin and The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything. One year on our hayride at the farm they did a "spooky storytime" and did the Little Old Lady with props. It was SO MUCH FUN! And was a great way to get the kids engaged. 

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Some fun Halloween crafts we have done was a group pumpkin pinata project for our Halloween Party and some footprint ghosts! Having classmates paint each others feet led to LOTS of giggles!

We end the month with our big Halloween celebration. All three of our special education classrooms celebrate by doing rotations in the morning and then my students can go to their inclusion classroom parties in the afternoon. I always chose to do the pumpkin carving rotation. The students each designed their own pumpkin by drawing or selecting online (Starfall.com has a great option!). Then, the class would vote on their favorite and that would be the one we used for the class pumpkin! Don't miss my Top 5 Tips for Carving Pumpkins in the Special Education Classroom. 

What a busy month! I love how my little class can mix in so much fun with our learning. 

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