Celebrating National Pizza Month with Good Sound Pizzas!

Hard to believe it is already October?!  Usually, this month is all about Halloween-pumpkins, bats, spiders, monsters, etc.  This year I decided to put a theme back on the schedule-PIZZA.  I had done this one several years ago when I worked in the public schools.  Using the same book, I tweaked the plans to make them more age appropriate for my current caseload.  The kids are loving it!!  Not everyone is hearing the book but they all love making the pizza!!  Since it is difficult to carry around pizza dough, cheese and sauce to each and every house/daycare/private school, we make a paper version.  A lot of my caseload is articulation right now so we are making "sound pizzas."  Before we make the "pizza", we read "Pete's a Pizza" by William Steig.  The kids love it and get a huge kick out of it!  Now we start working on our pizza!  I copy a page from my Super Duper Jumbo articulation drill book for each client.  Each kiddo gets 4 pictures so 1 page can last 2 kids.  If you shrink the pictures, then each kid could get all nine pictures.

Here's the rest of your supply list:
short strips of yellow paper (cheese)
red dot stickers (pepperonis)
green dot stickers (green peppers is the what the kids call them)
paper plate colored or painted brown

Now here's what you do:
Cut out the 4 target words.  During the first set of trials (3-5 repetitions of each target word), the child gets 2-3 strips of "cheese" to glue on his pizza for each target word said correctly 3-5 times.  During the second set of trials, he earns a pepperoni for each word.  Then we glue the target pictures on the pizza (after he says each one correctly 3-5 times).  Lastly, this is where he can earn more pepperonis or green peppers by saying each word again 3-5 times correctly.  You could get up to 80 reps in this activity alone!!!

We made ours a little differently this week since I had a blank pizza crust for the kids to color.  We just glued their pizza on a sheet of manila paper.  As you can see, I underlined the sounds so that parents knew what we worked on.