Skeletons, Spiders, and S Blends: Halloween Speech Fun

We’re going to have a little fun today by practicing our S Blends in Halloween words.

Warm up with words, phrases, and sentences to get to the silly riddles at the end.

Halloween S Blends in Words

Here are six Halloween pictures that all start with a different S blend.

Read the list below and find the picture that matches.

  • slug

  • snake

  • skeleton

  • sweets

  • star

  • spider

Halloween S Blends in Phrases

Steward brought his jar collection into class for show and tell.

He pulled them out to show the class,

Uh oh! One of his mom’s jars got mixed in with his.

Can you tell which one doesn’t belong?

What makes you think that?

Let’s practice using s blends in the following phrases

  • jar of slime

  • jar of slugs

  • jar of spiders

  • jar of strawberry jam

  • jar of smelly gas

Halloween S Blends in Sentences

What have we here? Four silly skeletons?

These skeletons want to play the game Charades.

Can you guess the action verb they are acting out? (Think is a verb + ing)

Did you answer

  • dancing

  • reading

  • jumping

  • holding

Now, try using each of these verbs in a sentence and include the word skeleton.

See if you can think of different sentence structures so they don’t all start the same.

Bonus points if you can make up a question using the action verb.

Halloween S Blends in a Picture Scene.

How many S blend words can you find in the picture below?

Scroll down to find the answer.

Did you find these words?

  • Sk: skull, skeleton

  • Sl: slime, slug

  • Sp: spiderweb, spikey dinosaur, spooky, sprout, spider

  • St: stars, stir, sticky hand, straw, stack of books

  • Sw: sweater, sweets,

  • Skr: scrool

  • Skw: squash

Halloween S Blend Riddles

Now see if you can guess the characters in the scene above based on these riddles.

I’m green and I’m tall.

My front arms are small.

Who am I?

I like to purr.

I have orange fur.

If you take a look.

I’m on a book

I stir my pot.

It’s really hot.

Some say my brew,

Tastes like a shoe.

Do you like slime?

I’ll give you mine.

I would take sips.

But I have no lips.

Those that roam,

Stop by my home.

If you’re spooky too.

I’ll welcome you.

Answers

Phrases: Exclusion, jar of strawberry jam does not belong.

Riddles: spikey dinosaur, cat in a sweater, witch stirring brew, skeleton drinking slime, mummy with a scroll

Illustration Credits: Bunny on a Cloud

Lia Kurtin