Elf on the Shelf Language Ideas!

 

Winter Freebie!!

 Here is a cute winter freebie that you can use in speech therapy or as a center in your classroom. The great part is you can use it to target what you want. It is great for verb tenses and pronouns! 

It can also be used as a receptive or expressive language activity.

 And they can say or write- whatever level your kiddos are at, it will fit!!

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Fun Phonemic Awareness Games!

Over the Christmas/COVID break your kids might have some 

Freebie!

 Do you need a quick freebie for your class or therapy! Here is a nice one to use just before Christmas break! You can have the kids sort the items and if that is too easy you can have them compare and contrast the items, name the category name and add 1 or 2 more items from that group. 

Tips on Pencil Grasp

 Some of the students in your class may have a hard time with Pencil Grasp! Here is a quick video to help you!

HIgher Level Language

 If you have older students on your caseload you know that their goals are more complicated than our preschoolers. As students get older we need to meet their needs differently. We need them to be successful in their classrooms. The students need to be able to read, comprehend what they are reading and be able to get their point across when they are writing. With their writing we also need it to be detailed and relevant. 

In order to do that we need to work on their higher-level language. In doing this, there is a sequence. In my Higher level language pack, I take you step by step on working through the skills.

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December Planning Freebie

 

Here is everything you need for December:

• Artic activity
• Language activity
• Reading and Vocabulary
• Preschool
•  Handout for parents
• Small-Group Or Center Activity
• and Speech Therapy plans!

AND 3 of them are free!!!!

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Transportation Theme

 Hey Everyone!!

Now I know it's winter (at least in Alberta) and you are looking at Christmas/winter themes but I use a Transportation teme for a bit. Then I am not totally out of Christmas ideas and it's a nice little break for kids as we get into the winter season. 

I only use this theme for about a week. 

You can also use this pack for one on one, small group, centers in the classroom. Teachers might even like it for a center in the class.

You can pick it up here for $1.50 for a limited time!!!

Visuals!!

 

 

Associations Center

 

 

Ideas to Build Core Strength

First of all: Why does Core strength matter?

 

Ideas to improve it:

How can you work on core strength with your child in speech or in the classroom?

*lay down on the floor

*color or play on the floor

*use an exercise ball

Jack and the Beanstalk!

 

Transition Strategies

 

OT and Speech

 

There have been so many funding cuts in Canada that when I work with children I like to try and see the big picture. Speech is my area but I like to try and target as many areas as I can, so they get the most bang for their buck. Not all speech kids have OT concerns, but some definitely do. 

I found this resource that target vocabulary skills, asking "wh" and yes/no questions, verbs and much more! It is from the OT Butterfly and I think it is a great resource for face to face or distance learning.

 

In her words:

 

"Are you doing Telehealth or distance learning with your OT clients and looking for a virtual, digital interactive game to play with them? This digital "who am I?" game board allows you to pull up the PDF on your screen and screen share it with your client. The game is played similar to "Guess who" but instead of putting down cards to rule out answers, you can click boxes to illustrate this.

 

 

Click on the picture to listen to her preview video.

 

 

Thanks, The OT Butterfly!

 

 

 

 

Little Red Riding Hood

Use this 33-page pack for a week's worth of activities in speech therapy or as literacy centers in your classroom!

Read your book every day and then follow up with these great activities:


Monday-describing & attributes
Tuesday-beginning sounds
Wednesday-categories
Thursday-story sequence 2 versions
Friday-plurals
Bonus-articulation for /g/, /l/ and /r/
wh questions.

 

Teletherapy Idea- Goldilocks!

 

Can't come up with anything for therapy? Try a YouTube video and have the child answer questions and sequence the video!

Also, you can try my Goldilocks Companion!

 

The Wheels on the Bus

 Here are some fun and cute activities that you can use with The Wheels on the Bus theme!😊

To make it fun, we need to incorporate many areas: play, hands-on learning, interactive, etc. Some of the activities are even appropriate for teletherapy!

 I have incorporated many activities in this pack, fine motor skills, language skills, language centers and below is a fun video you can watch. You will also want to do the hand motions too!

Apple Themed Activities!

 

Here are Apple theme activities that are good for preschool, kindergarten and grade 1. It is a really nice theme to pair with a sensory bin!

Some activities target speech, language and fine motor skills.

The OT centers are meant to target fine motor skills that include printing practice, Q-tips, playdoh, blocks and erasers. These centers target hand strength, manipulation, and other fine motor skills needed for young children need.

You can use each of them any way you like them but here are some suggestions:

•Playdoh- the child can use the black and white version to color, or make a face (targeting emotions) in the apple. With the color version, you can use play-doh to practice the outline of the apple or mini erasers.

•Q-tip- using paint, the children can outline the apples. Make sure to cut the Q-tip in half to encourage proper pencil grasp.

•Alphabet practice- can use with dry erase markers, or printing practice in a sensory bin (rice/sand, etc.).

•Number practice- you can have the students practice writing the numbers or put blocks/small erasers that represent the number shown.

These centers are meant to target speech and language skills -like vocabulary, category naming, concepts, phoneme identification, and phoneme counting. Most of these are all skills children need to master before they start to read.

You can use each of them any way you like them but here are some suggestions:

•Apple Basket Categories- depending on the age and skill level you can use as many or as few categories as you like. For young children, you can start with 2 very different categories: for example animals and food. As the children progress, you can make the activity more difficult: animals with fur and animals with feathers. Some other ideas are farm animal/forest animals, ocean animals/ land animals, vehicles that go on land /ocean, etc. Many of the pictures may apply to several groups. Again, use your judgement to include the pictures that will work best for your group.

•One sheet Language center- if you are in a pinch try the no-prep sheet, you can use page 29 for your group and go through the sheet individual, or as a group.

•Category name- if your children are writing they can pick a card from the pile (cut and laminate page 36 and place all pictures in a pile) as they pull a card they can label the category name and write it down. If your children are younger they can just verbally label the category name. Many of the pictures can be called different names (animals/farm animals/pets). Snowman (things outside, things you find in winter, cold things, etc., again, use your judgment as to whether the answer is correct or not. To extend the activity you can have the student name more items from that category.

•Concepts- have the children circle the correct concept. To extend, you can use manipulatives to show the concepts cards around the classroom or use manipulatives with a small group.

•Identify the digraph- have the children pick one of the cards (again cut, laminate and place in a pile) then have the children say the word and place it on the correct apple according to the sound they heard. You can use 1 or 2 sounds or all 3 depending on age and skill.

 

Books Online

Are you looking for ways to build emergent literacy skills in young children?

As we have entered the era of COVID and we are now doing homeschool and a lot of online learning we need to remember books. I love books online and I love how books can increase so many language skills!

Here is a video about turning book reading into a conversation with the fun children’s book Good Night, Gorilla.

Here are some activities I found on Pinterest!

CVC Center for Fall!

  

We need a quick center for all of our kids that will be in the classroom! It needs to be useful and low prep, in case we have to look after 100 other things! LOL

First - you can use this as a CVC center. 

Second, you can use it as a phoneme center- segmenting the sounds in words.

Thirdly, you can use it as a rhyming center.

Any order you like!!

In order to make it COVID friendly, you can laminate and use wipes and hand sanitizer between children. 

Fall Activities

Autumn Literacy Pack
Great for pre-k, kindergarten and grade 1!

• Activities include:
• Syllable sort
• Beginning sounds
• Printing practice
• Writing prompts
• Black and white home reader
• Comprehension questions
• Colored class reader in the Brown Bear format.
• Sequence activity

41 pages in all

*** updated- made a few revisions and made it more printer friendly!
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Fall Speech Therapy Activities

                                                           

Need a quick, inexpensive activity for September

Use this book for speech therapy. This book written in the Brown Bear format to teach vocabulary and the items that are found during autumn. Included are printing practice sheets, prompts for writing about fall and identifying beginning sounds.

Great little package to send home with younger students and its only $1!