Theme Based Activities: October and Halloween

	Mouse Saw...Halloween (CS-3) Created with templates from The Writing Bin (www.LearningMagicInc.com) this is a simple companion activity to the book,"Mouse's First Halloween" by Lauren Thompson. Students can select a photograph of something Mouse sees to create a book of their own. Text is automatically placed on pages giving student exposure to the words to match their pictures. >> Download
	Mouse's First Halloween (DV4/MT4, V/Vmax) Lucy shares our affection for little Mouse. Here's a page for your Dynavox devices so that children can read right along! Thanks, Lucy! >> Download
	Mouse's First Halloween (CS-3) Our favorite little mouse is exploring the house this October. He sees some pretty confusing stuff! Mouse decides it's "not so scary, after all!" Based on the book Mouse's First Halloween, this writing activity lets users play with the objects in the story and decide how they feel about them. >> Download
	What's Up Jack? (CS-3) Jack O'Lantern is having a confusing day. This simple click-through storybook explores emotions with animation, text and familiar concepts. >> Download
	Ghost Cookies (DV4/MT4, V/Vmax) Lucy Nutt has cooked up another fun page for the Dynavox devices to make ghost cookies. Yummy! >> Download
	Pick A Word Patch (BM6) An open content articulation board with pumpkins for you to write your students' target words on. >> Download
	Big Pumpkin sentence strips (BM6) These are sentence strips to go along with the book, Big Pumpkin. Simply cut out the strips and attach to the pages of your book using strips of contact paper. >> Download
	Halloween Spatial Concepts (BM6) A cute worksheet to address spatial concepts. Where's that ghost? He's beside, in front, on top, and behind the pumpkin! Can your student fill in the blanks? >> Download

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Classroom Suite activities (CS) require you to own Classroom Suite from Intellitools. Classroom Suite from either Dunamis Inc or Intellitools.com.

To use the activities from our website, click on the screenshot, select "save" on the popup and save the activity file somewhere on your computer (I recommend the desktop so you don't forget where you put it!). Do not unzip the file. Open Classroom Suite and click on "import." Browse for the activity (on your desktop) and double click it. Classroom Suite will do the rest of the work for you.

Boardmaker files (BM) also require you to own Boardmaker software. Basic Boardmaker will allow you to print and use the BM6 activities above. To access the interactive boards you need either Boardmaker/SDPro, Boardmaker Plus or Boardmaker Plus Player. Boardmaker Plus Player is now available for a limited time for $99.00. "Boardmaker Plus Player is a new product from Mayer-Johnson that allows you to easily deliver adapted curriculum to the students who can benefit from it. By purchasing a copy of Boardmaker Plus Player for each of the computers in your classroom and media center, you allow every student to use the activities you create. Parents can purchase Boardmaker Plus Player and teacher created activities can go home so that parents can work with their children on their home computer." Boardmaker is an unbeatable tool for creating visual schedules, communication boards, recipes, worksheets and more.

Clicker 5 (C5) activities also require you to own the original software. Clicker 5 and related products can be purchased from Dunamis Inc or at www.cricksoft.com/us.

To use the activities on our website, click on the screenshot. You will be asked whether you want to open or save the file. I suggest you save it to your My Boards folder. When you're ready to look at your board, open Boardmaker, select "Open a saved board" and browse for your board.