Trick Or Treating

 Most of my students don't get the opportunity to go trick-or-treating for Halloween for a variety of reasons.  Some students live in bad neighborhoods, others are afraid of all the decorations, and others struggle with behavior in the community.  Regardless, as I have expressed earlier this week, my students are OBSESSED with HALLOWEEN.  Working on our Halloween worksheets this week has been a real hit!  My kids get so excited every time we turn the page to the next worksheet.  And since they are so happy and engaged, time has been flying by for me as well!  And, after our week getting off to a rocky start, we have had a fabulous last couple days!

Now, onto Trick-Or-Treating.  Regardless of if our students are able to go in their neighborhoods with their families or not, we like to include a mock trick-or-treating around our school to give our students the life experience and/or practice.  Since my school has 4 autism classrooms, we go trick-or-treating to each of the other classrooms as well as our speech therapists' room, the office, and the case managers office.  

We walk the kids from room to room, line-up, and have each kid take a turn to say (or use PECS to say) "Trick-or-Treat" in order to get a piece of candy.  (We ask each family to send in a bag of candy so that we have enough to go around).  

Also, when we are in our classrooms, the other 3 autism classrooms come trick-or-treating to our classroom.  This way, my students get a chance to hand out candy as well.

We will be using this social story this year before trick-or-treating!  Click Here to get a copy.