I am fortunate enough to have a classroom right next to the bathrooms. This placement potential is huge I tell ya! The teachers I work with are so dedicated to their instruction time that they use any transition time as an additional learning opportunity. My first year on this campus, our reading specialist had a word wall outside my door….
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These are a few of my favorite things….at the SNF
We all have our favorite, go-to items whether at home or at work. These things are familiar and usually are something you have used a lot. Something that is reliable and flexible. I have some therapy materials that are that way for me. Any time I show up at a facility to work PRN, these are the things I scan…
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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…
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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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