Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner!

WOO HOO! I am celebrating my 500 followers on TPT! 

First of all, thank you to all of my followers! I love the speech world, and making products!

I am grateful to all who read my blog, looked at my store, purchased/downloaded items and given me feedback! 

You have made my day!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

To celebrate I am giving away anything in my TPT store! The first 10 people who email me, follow my shop and pin this any item from my TPT shop! Just be sure to let me know what you would like!

creatingcommunicators@hotmail.com

Thanks again!
Cheers,

Mindy

Wild About Books Wednesday!

 

I think everyone in the world has read and used this book in their classroom or therapy!
Here is my book buddy to go with 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar book buddy
Great for classrooms, and speech therapy.
Includes phonemic awareness activities, sequencing and plurals. There are many extra's including math and printing practice!
A 35 page must have for and SLP or teacher!

How have you used The Very Hungry Caterpillar?

Speech at the ..... Beach!

Hey Everyone, again!

During the summer many kids do not attend speech therapy (usually because they receive it at school) and I thought what can I do to help? So, this summer every Monday I will be posting ideas of how you can enhance your child's speech and language skills at different spots that people frequent during the summer. I will be posting on the zoo, carnival, parade, camping, and much more!

Today is my forth post at the beach!!
Here are pics of my kids when they were younger- 
and sometimes you just can't get to the beach!

Today I'm doing my post a little different... I posting some of my favorite beach themed speech activities!

1.

 

Here is my pack- Speech at the Beach!

Awesome little language package with a tiny bit of speech in it!
This package includes:

• Initial /k/ artic cards
• Printing practice for initial k cards
• Following directions
• concepts
• Pronoun practice
• Plurals
• A home reader
• Sequencing practice
• Comprehension activity
• Coloring pages




2.
 
Beach Prepositional Phrases by Laura Jay



3.

Beach Cookie Sheet Activities by File Folder Heaven

4.


Beach lovin' Bundle- Functions, Categories and What Doesn't Belong by A Speechie's World!
 
For more ideas check out my pinterest board- Useful SLP Resources!

I hope you enjoyed this post!
I would love to hear some of your ideas and any requests for places you would like me to post on!

Cheers,
Mindy

Speech at the .... Parade!

Hey Everyone!

During the summer many kids do not attend speech therapy (usually because they receive it at school) and I thought what can I do to help? So, this summer every Monday I will be posting ideas of how you can enhance your child's speech and language skills at different spots that people frequent during the summer. I will be posting on the zoo, carnival, parade, camping, and much more!

Today is my third post at the PARADE!!

Trick 1- Sequencing the Floats! When you are watching the parade you will see and use words like first, next, last, second, third, to talk about the order that you see the floats. You can also use phrases like "behind the red one" or "before the float with the big yellow bird, etc."


These are pics from when my kids were much younger!

Trick 2- Labeling the attributes of the floats! Talk about the floats, and their attributes like that one has animals on it, or it is being pulled by a---, and this one is large and that one is small, etc.

Trick 3- Model grammar- remember to use correct grammar with plurals and verb tenses. That one that went by is - or here come 10 horses, and the one that is coming is--, etc.

For more ideas check out my pinterest board- Useful SLP Resources!

I hope you enjoyed this post!
I would love to hear some of your ideas and any requests for places you would like me to post on!

Cheers,
Mindy

Freebie Linky Party!

Freebie Linky Party Time!

Linky Freebie Party!

On the 15th of every month I would like to host a favorite freebie linky party!

All you have to do is link up and post your favorite speech and language freebie- it can be from your shop or another freebie you've found.

 Just link up and use my button and link back to this blog!

 

Here is a new freebie I've created. 



It is a quick visual handout for your kiddies to help them

when they are working on the vocabulary goal. 

It helps them identify the important attributes to list when 

categorizing, labeling and naming an items attributes.

I hope you like it!

 Please follow my store  or shop and leave me some feedback!
 

Cheers,

Mindy

An InLinkz Link-up

Fun In The Sun Linky

 

Here is my blog post on Favorite Summer Time Therapy Games! 

1. Water Table and Sand Toys- you can use these to elicit language and summer time vocabulary.

2. Hot Potato Game- you can use this for artic. and have the child say a word with their target sound every time they pass the potato  or for vocabulary you can have the child name an item from a group.

3. Carson Adventure Pak- This is great is you can go outside! You can use this to find and identify bugs, leaves and other fun things outside!

4. Learning Resources Camp out and Tent- And if you can't go outside bring the outside in! (hopefully  you have a lot of room!) Have a pretend camp out to talk about vocabulary related to camping or you can say a verb and then have the child act it out. Another idea is look on TPT there are many camping related items you can purchase to target many different language goals.

5. Jumbo Farm Animals And Barn (Tent)- Here is another great one for little guys. They love playing! You can use the animals (again) for vocab and then talk about the animals by labeling attributes and comparing and contrasting them. Basically anything you can think of! I know the kids will love this!!
 

ARTICULATION FOLDS

Here is my new articulation folds pack that contains /f/, /v/, /l/, /k/ and s blends. It is an easy way to work on articulation- its no prep! Just print and go. This pack includes color (for use in therapy) and black and white (for homework practice).
It is free just for a short time and then will be available for $2.50! So grab it while its hot!! Here is a sneak peak!

There are 2 ways to use them:

If you like it follow my shop and  leave me some feedback, I would really appreciate it! :)

Articulation Folds

Articulation Folds!

Here is a new product I've made! It is a quick game for initial /k/ that can be used in therapy and for homework. 

Download it for free and keep an eye out for more activities for other sounds!

Cheers,
Mindy

Speech at the ......Zoo

Hey Everyone!

During the summer many kids do not attend speech therapy (usually because they receive it at school) and I thought what can I do to help? So, this summer every Monday I will be posting ideas of how you can enhance your child's speech and language skills at different spots that people frequent during the summer. I will be posting on the zoo, carnival, parade, camping, and much more!

Today is my second post
The Zoo!

Trick 1- Sequencing the Animals!When you are looking at a map or making a plan for your day talk about which animals you will see  and use words like first, next, last, second, third, etc.


Trick 2- Labeling the attributes of the Animals! Talk about the animals, and thier attributes like a giraffe has fur, 4 legs and a long neck, etc.

Trick 3- Talk about how the animals are the same and different. For example the a bear and polar bear are both bears but a polar bear is white and lives in the arctic, etc.

Trick 4-Talk about the rhyming animals-  You can rhyme with real or nonsense words. Tiger, liger, miger, etc. 


For more ideas check out my pinterest board- Useful SLP Resources!

I hope you enjoyed this post!
I would love to hear some of your ideas and any requests for places you would like me to post on!

Cheers,
Mindy

Wild About Books Wednesday

I am linking up with Speech is Sweet and her Wild about Books Wednesday!

 

Today I am posting about "Gilbert the Great" and "Don't Eat the Teacher!"

I found 2 really cute books that I thought would be great for social skills - Gilbert the Great and Don't Eat the Teacher!

Gilbert the Great is a story about a shark and how he deals with his best friend moving, and Don't Eat the Teacher is about a shark that bites everything on his first day of school. They are a great introduction to younger kids on how to behave in certain social situations. I really like these books as they get the conversation going on how to act and also forces the children to come up with a better option.

In this pack I've included 2 social games:

It also includes /sh/ articulation cards and a craft that goes along with the articulation cards.

 

Here is a cute pic my 6 month old in a shark mask!!

He is so cute!

Cheers,

Mindy