Monster Theme

I love using the Monster theme in the preschool and kinder classrooms. I incorporate Speech and OT.

There are so many fun ideas and activities. 

You can pair with the OT centers to make your centers a language rich experience.
We did Wet, Dry, Try with the letter M- for Monster, then we made monsters with play dough and made fun monsters using add-ons like buttons, straws and other $ store items. 
M- make the m sound with the kids, talk about words that start with the m sound and explicitly describe how to make the m sound (putting your lips together, etc.).
Play Dough- make the monster and describe what they are doing- you put the eyes in the middle, you made a mouth at the bottom, just explain what they are doing using concepts. Remember- don't ask questions, model what they are saying. 
Take a look:

And I also use my Monster Sort Freebie as a language center.

Here is a fun song to pair with your Monster Theme.

 

Camping Theme for Preschoolers

 

Here is a great language activity pack for preschoolers!

•You can use this as a bus theme or pair it with a camping book.

Activities:

1.Sorting – camping items and items that are not for camping.

2. Free play center- language ideas

3.Fine Motor dabbing

4.Coloring page

5.Printing practice for the letter /c/ mats- used for coloring, dry erase markers, play-doh, and/or posters for visuals.

6.Printing practice- lower case- used for mini erasers, pencil, crayons, pom-poms, dry erase or play-doh.

7.Dabbing practice- lower case- you can use with bingo dabbers, or Q-tips and paint.

8. Interactive Book

9. Jar and Bug Go togethers

10. Opposite Tent Match up

11. Fishing for Concepts

I like to pair this theme with some of my favourite toys!

Seven Sacred Teachings Freebie

Here is a great freebie that you students can show to demonstrate the knowledge of each of the 7 teachings. They can carry out an activity/action that represents each of the 7 teachings:

Love

Respect

Courage

Honesty 

Humility

Wisdom

and Truth.

First you can read a book and introduce each of the teachings and which animal represents each teaching.

Then you can explain why they are important and how you can use each of these qualities 

at home,

school 

and in the community.

After they understand each of the teachings, give them a week to demonstrate each quality by demonstrating them in their home, school or community.

Then have them do an oral report on what they did and how it showed each of the 7 sacred teachings.

They will feel so proud and it will be a great exercise for their classmates also.

After they have filled out their sheet have them take it home and show their parents.

Arctic Language Activities

Do you need some phonological activities for centers during December? 

Here are some fun activities for 

rhyming

segmenting 

beginning sounds and more!

 

 

I pair this activity pack with a fun sensory bin. There are so many ideas you can do!

The Wheels on the Bus

 

 

 

• Here it is!

A week of The Wheels on the Bus Preschool Package!

It includes detailed information on how to turn this song into a language opportunity for preschoolers!

Included:

• coloring book
• what are the parts of a bus-interactive book
• find similar items in and out of the classroom based on colour
• "wh" questions
• Vocabulary activity
• Sequencing Activity targeting first, next, last, and then, etc.
• and much more!

Camping Theme

 

You can use this as a bus theme or pair it with a camping book.
Activities included are:

1.Sorting – camping items and items that are not for camping.

2. Free play center- language ideas

3.Fine Motor dabbing

4.Coloring page

5.Printing practice for the letter /c/ mats- used for coloring, dry erase markers, play-doh, and/or posters for visuals.

6.Printing practice- lower case- used for mini erasers, pencil, crayons, pom-poms, dry erase or play-doh.

7.Dabbing practice- lower case- you can use with bingo dabbers, or Q-tips and paint.

8. Interactive Book

9. Jar and Bug Go togethers

10. Opposite Tent Match up

11. Fishing for Concepts

 

Sequencing and Concepts

 

Are you having trouble with students following directions and understanding first, next, last, before and after? I know these are some of the more common issues children face. 
I made a package to help learn these concepts as well as sequencing. 

Use this package in your special ed. class, speech therapy or classroom. You can use this with many different abilities. There are sheets where they have to explain the concepts (before/after, first, next and last) and sheets that they write what happened before/after, etc. On many of the sheets there is no right/wrong answer- use your judgement and let the child explain their answer, if it makes sense accept it. For example, some people brush their teeth first thing in the am and others after they eat breakfast.

I’ve included mats that you can use for centers in your class (pages 3-34), task cards (35-38), and color, cut and paste worksheets (39-55).
There are also blank pages that you can use however you like 
I hope you enjoy it and it works for your students.