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…
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Teaching basic WH questions
HOW do I teach WHAT questions? When working with my Head Start and PreK students, I have found that it is easier to use photos, pictures, gestures, objects, basically anything that may get their attention and help them remember the purpose of the activity we are working on. So I created these printable flash cards to use as visual…
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Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers: A Speech, Language and Literacy unit
Today I wanted to share how I used ONE book to work on MANY things over the course of a month of speech therapy sessions…January! We used the book Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. (affiliate link) Session #1: Read the book and make our penguins We read the book first! It’s a precious story about a little boy who finds…
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The Old Lady Who Swallows Everything in Sight!
The kids loved last week’s unit on There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. It was slightly morbid but…hey! it got their attention. This week I decided to resurrect The old Lady and read There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves. (affiliate links abound!) I found the printables online and bought the canister at Walmart. After cutting…
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Kids Town and Lisa Marie
Lisa Marie got to go to church today. She was asked to be an actor in the skit for Kids Town. We are continuing our “survivor” theme and discussion on Fear and trusting in God. Today, Jane was “afraid” of a big scary dog named Hercules. She worried and shared with everyone her fears. After much discussion about Joseph and…
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