Photo booth fun with Seasonal Characters

As I have said in earlier posts, this month our team is focusing on the core word on.  During our brainstorming for our plan this week, we had the idea of using a photo booth to incorporate our core word and use of AAC.  We introduced the topic by using this short interactive book I made that targeted Seasonal Characters.

After reading the book, the kids were able to dress like their favorite characters.  They made their choices by using a grid from grid player on the iPad.

They were even able to make specific choices according to which character they chose.  If they chose Santa, they were able to choose a hat, flashing lights, beard, and sack.  Here are a couple of cute photos that we were able to get from the session.  

Such a fun activity! As I said earlier, this lesson targeted core vocabulary, choice making, increasing MLU for our verbal students, and answering simple questions related to the topic. 

"Baking" in the speech room!

It's going to be a fun day in the speech room! Mrs. Britt has a baking sheet, cinnamon, nutmeg, cookie cutters, and play doh! Wait, did you say play-doh?  I sure did! Today, we are using our imaginations and baking some gingerbread cookies.  First, we took white play-doh and sprinkled nutmeg and cinnamon "on" top.  (Did I mention that our core word for the month is on?) The kids were able to tell me if the smells were yummy or yucky.  I will tell you that the cinnamon was much more popular than the nutmeg!  After mixing, the play-doh, the kids made their cookies.  They made their choices using a static board for different shape cookie cutters.  

The cookies are ready. The students put their cookies on the pan. 

Now, we need to bake our cookies!

When the cookies were "done", they were actually given real teddy grahams to eat. This activity was great for building MLU, and choice making.  Most of the kids enjoyed it so much, they asked to do it over and over again.