Where Can I Scream?

Tips for Parents and Teachers to further engage readers and listeners.

How did Lucky spend his day?

Spend a little extra time on the pages containing the bus interior. Did you or the child/children notice what happened to Lucky?

Give the child/children paper and drawing/coloring tools. Ask them to make up a story about why Lucky missed the bus and what happened afterward. Did anyone pick him up and take him to school? Did he have to walk all the way to school? Or, did Lucky decide this was the perfect excuse to take the day off?

What else happened to Lucky?

Spend a little extra time on the page where Sam screams for ice cream, the page following that and the one after. Then, spend a little extra time on the page where Sam and friends are outside the haunted house after exploring. Notice what happened to Lucky there?

Ask the child/children to draw or write what else happened to Lucky throughout the day.

Where else can Sam scream?

Ask the child/children to come up with other places Sam could scream. Let their imaginations be their guide. Here are a few ideas to spark young minds.

Perhaps Sam can scream on the moon (For you adults, 'In space no one can hear you scream')

Maybe Sam can scream on a submarine, or perhaps Sam screams at a crowded party.

Play a simple game

(Parents can play along in place of children if you wish)

Divide the children into groups. Have one child be Sam to start with and have the other children be whatever characters, (or themselves or their own characters). Each group will be asked to come up with a place Sam can either scream or not scream.

The child who is Sam will then stage scream and the other children will either tell Sam 'This is not the place to scream and suggest a proper place to scream or, they will say 'This is a good place to scream.' (or however you wish to word it.)

What does a scream look like?

Ask the child/children to draw what they believe a scream to look like, have them choose an emotion for said scream and write the answer and their name on the back of the paper.

Then when each child is done with their scream drawing or the alloted time has passed for this activity, put all the drawings on a bullten board or similar. Then have the children try to guess what each pictures emotion is.

If you feel like it, you can turn it into a rewards based game, where the children who guessed the emotion correctly gets a sticker or a candy or whatever class reward. And the child who drew the scream also gets a reward.

Or if you choose not to, this can just be a no stakes fun activity to get the kids playing with the idea of screaming being for various reasons.

Ie: Screaming when someone is hurt. Screaming when you are afraid, or angry, or happy, or playing games.