The Little Scarecrow Boy

This week we have read the book The Little Scarecrow Boy and made paper scarecrow puppets. You may be thinking how is the related to speech and language??  Very easily actually.  While reading our book for the week students were asked to predict, determine main characters, setting, problems and solutions.  They did all this while targeting speech sounds...some if them without even knowing it.  They had to follow complex instructions to complete their puppet and discuss what type of emotion they wanted their puppet to have.  We had great fun and made lots of sticky messes!!  Just how we like it!