When my youngest students come to speech therapy, we follow a strict routine that always starts our session with a song. Since I have had the chance to preview a LOT of songs this way, I wanted to share my favorites with you! I look for songs that target basic vocabulary as well as concepts. Color words and descriptives, nouns, and action words are at the top on my priority list. Here are my favorites right now: The Kiboomers have a ton of great songs and The Mitten Song is a great ... Read More about Songs for Preschoolers: Winter Vocabulary
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Spring Preschool Vocabulary Lessons About Insects
Spring Preschool Vocabulary Lessons With Spring's arrival, Winter activities are put away and the next file cabinet is opened in my speech therapy room. It's time for spring preschool vocabulary lessons. I try to keep up with the themes of our prekindergarten and kindergarten teams. If possible, I pre-teach the vocabulary that I know they will be discussing in the upcoming weeks. The first set of vocabulary I focused on this year was bugs and insects. This was partly because of the upcoming unit ... Read More about Spring Preschool Vocabulary Lessons About Insects
Measuring Progress on Vocabulary Skills
It's progress monitoring time in our school district. That amazing week where you get to write all 50+ progress reports on your students! I know it can be long and tedious, but if you look at it like I usually try to ...it's amazing. Don't get me wrong, not all of my students make extreme gains each nine weeks, but most of them make good ones...the kind that gets you motivated for the next nine weeks! One of my kinder kiddos has been working hard and making some crazy good progress on animal ... Read More about Measuring Progress on Vocabulary Skills
Learning New Vocabulary One Morning at a Time: Skiing
It's mid-October in Texas and the high temperature is still in the 90's. We are anxiously awaiting some Fall weather, even going so far as to wear scarves with sleeveless tops. Apparently The Persistent Principal was longing for frigid weather because she bought a pair of skis at a yard sale to use for our morning vocabulary lessons. It's not often that we have enough snow in our area to use skis. As a matter of fact, it is NEVER. So the skis made the PERFECT vocabulary lesson for our Prek and ... Read More about Learning New Vocabulary One Morning at a Time: Skiing
Teaching Vocabulary One Recess at a Time
It's Spring in our Early Childhood Center so this round of vocabulary instruction was focused completely on gardening equipment. The week began with The Persistent Principal introducing the word RAKE. She brought in her rake to school one morning. It wasn't a leaf rake but more of a bow rake. We began our morning introductions just like we did in our quilt instruction where we taught vocabulary one morning at a time. A few of the kids recognized it. They said, "My dad has one!" It was ... Read More about Teaching Vocabulary One Recess at a Time
