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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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Therapy today…More Fall Fun!

Today at work we continued the fall activities and crafts by flipping through magazines and cutting out pictures and words that are reminisce of fall. The patients then arranged the clippings on a piece of construction paper in a collage format.  Isn’t our therapy room beautiful?

Descriptive Language Activity: Detectives Search it Out!

Today I bring to you another activity from my TpT store: Descriptive Detectives.  These detectives use clues to figure out the words being described. Instructions are included how to introduce the activity including vocabulary words students may not be familiar with, advance to a memory game where students try to figure out the clues and identify which cards they have…
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Constructing Sentences: Speech Therapy

When I started therapy with this year’s group of kids, I discovered we had one thing we needed to work on first: Making a sentence. Not only for the language delayed kids, but also for my ESL and articulation delayed kiddos, making sentences was not an easy task. I tried modeling, written and visual prompts, more modeling with no good…
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