If you happen to walk into my speech room and find me playing go fish with two or three students, please know that we ARE doing something related to their IEP, not just playing games.Today I played go fish for the first time in a LOOOOOONG time. I mean, like years. When I worked in a school servicing older elementary kids, they always wanted to play go fish. I would comply about once every couple of weeks and think to myself...is this really good therapy?Then I came to the Prek and Kinder ... Read More about Playing Go Fish IS effective in Speech Therapy after all!
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Target Final Sounds and Asking WHO Questions
For several of my groups in speech therapy today, I used the Penguin and Polar Bear "I have, who has" Game by Jennifer Drake at Crayons and Cuties in Kindergarten.Jennifer's free version targets the short 'a' sound, but we used it to work on articulation, ending sounds, asking "who" questions and formulating sentences with "I have". The game is played by passing all of the cards out, divided evenly between players. As I passed them out, we did basic vocabulary to identify the ... Read More about Target Final Sounds and Asking WHO Questions
‘Twas the last week of Speech: Day Two
Counting down! Four more days to Christmas Break...Today I decided to get technologically coooool. After all, kids LOVE technology. I just rarely find time to really get it into my therapy sessions. After downloading this Christmas Attributes Freebie by Kim Lewis the Activity Tailor from Creative Common Attribution, I hesitated a couple of weeks.....but I said HEY! It's the last week before Christmas! So we did it...and I'm so glad we did.Another activity we worked on today was a ... Read More about ‘Twas the last week of Speech: Day Two
Interactive Bulletin Boards for Christmas
I am fortunate enough to have a classroom right next to the bathrooms. This location is noisy but the space is frequently visited by all! The teachers I work with are so dedicated to their instruction time that they use any transition time as an additional learning opportunity. Who can use an interactive bulletin board? In my first year on the early childhood campus, our reading specialist had a word wall outside my door. Every day I would sit in my room and marvel at the fact that the teachers ... Read More about Interactive Bulletin Boards for Christmas
The Canoe
My wonderful principal ordered a new and unique toy for our campus..."The Canoe". Amazon has a GREAT price on it right now (affiliate link): Lucky for me, it made it's debut in The Speech Room!The Pea Pod comes in three sizes. We have the small 48" size and two kindergartners fit in it well. I actually got three preK kids in it at one time! (let's just say we worked on some social skills that group as well)..."The Canoe" is for kids who need that little extra snuggle. ... Read More about The Canoe