This will be my last blog post here on BlogSpot. It has been a great ride the past few months. But I have decided to start a website that has been showcasing my blog posts. If you are interested in what's going on in the Speech Chick's world that is the place to find me now! You can order the TALKBOX from there, following along with therapy posts and find out more about Speech Chick!! I hope everyone has had a great start to the new year. I know I sure have!! I have included the link so that you can find the website easier!
Speech Chick Therapy's new website!!!
Hope to see you all over at the new place!!
Melissa
Showing posts with label Articulation Therapy. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Talking on a Tuesday: Gingerbread Edition
Today's post is all about ARTICULATION!!! Monday morning I was feeling pretty good! I made a giant check list on Sunday and completed every task on it! Several of those tasks were making sure I was prepped for Monday. Pulled up to my first kid to realize I left the paint dauber AND the di at home...on my desk. Time to improvise!! We read our book. Then I pulled out my phone and found a dice roller app (who knew they even had that??). Instead of dot paints, we just colored the pictures. Our first activity of the week was the newly loved "Roll and Say." This one included characters from the story-gingerbread man, fox, old man and old woman.
Our second session of the week included a take home game and an open ended game. Both go well with the story. First, we make the fox puppet while working on our words. After we've made the puppet, we play the game a time or 2 in order for the kids to be able to play it at home. I really like these kinds of games for my kiddos that are 1 session a week. The concept is they "feed" the gingerbread cookies to the fox as they say their words. When we are done, we place all the gingerbread cookies in the bag for storage.
The open ended game can be found in the book buddy along with the first articulation activity above. Print a set of cards (1 page) for each child in your group. If you see kids individually, like I do, print 2 sets. Laminate all for durability and cut apart. I store all my game pieces in manila envelopes. The child produces his target word correctly 5x and then chooses a card from the envelope. The one with the most gingerbread cookies is the winner!! But watch out for the broken cookie and the fox!!!
Until next time, keep 'em talking!
Melissa
Monday, December 7, 2015
Monday Preview of Gingerbread Week!!
With Christmas right around the corner, it is a perfect time for a cute gingerbread theme. I love the smell of gingerbread cookies in the oven around this time of the year!! This week I have put together some fun activities for the kids to do that celebrate all things gingerbread!
When I worked in the school system, I liked to read 3 different versions of the Gingerbread Man. Then we could do the compare/contrast chart, talk about which the kids preferred (and chart the responses) and what we would do if we were the Gingerbread Man. This would be the reason that I have several Gingerbread Man books. I have to say I have 2 favorites. I love "The Jalapeno Man" and "The Gingerbread Girl." "The Jalapeno Man" is a must have for any SLP living in or from Texas!! The figurative language in it is like no other!!! Since I am now in the home setting, I read it to my older kids (like around 2nd-3rd grade, depending on language skills). "The Gingerbread Girl" is a great read for the girls. Usually the boys don't want to hear it because it's about a girl. But I love that it has a different ending. It's not necessarily making the girl smarter. I think it's more about learning from experiences (your own or someone else's) and making a different choice.
"The Gingerbread Man" Book Buddy can be found on the TpT store. It has two drill type articulation sheets that will make the week fun. Kids love those dot paints so feel free to use them with the "Roll and Say" drill. There's also a couple of language activities; one of which is a new form. It is called "Color by Skill" and addresses several skills at once as well as following directions. I can't wait to try it out this week. If you try it, let me know what you think about it!
I also added some cool playdough smush boards. The little ones love them!!! So grab a can of playdough and work on some expressive vocabulary skills. The kiddos can name the objects and smush playdough on them. Or use it for receptive language; name a picture and have the child find it and smush playdough on it. Either way, they'll have a great time!!
Have a great week!!
Until next time, keep 'em talking!
Melissa
When I worked in the school system, I liked to read 3 different versions of the Gingerbread Man. Then we could do the compare/contrast chart, talk about which the kids preferred (and chart the responses) and what we would do if we were the Gingerbread Man. This would be the reason that I have several Gingerbread Man books. I have to say I have 2 favorites. I love "The Jalapeno Man" and "The Gingerbread Girl." "The Jalapeno Man" is a must have for any SLP living in or from Texas!! The figurative language in it is like no other!!! Since I am now in the home setting, I read it to my older kids (like around 2nd-3rd grade, depending on language skills). "The Gingerbread Girl" is a great read for the girls. Usually the boys don't want to hear it because it's about a girl. But I love that it has a different ending. It's not necessarily making the girl smarter. I think it's more about learning from experiences (your own or someone else's) and making a different choice.
"The 10 Gingerbread Men" is a brand new addition this year. I found it before Thanksgiving and knew I had to have it for my little guys.
"The Gingerbread Man" Book Buddy can be found on the TpT store. It has two drill type articulation sheets that will make the week fun. Kids love those dot paints so feel free to use them with the "Roll and Say" drill. There's also a couple of language activities; one of which is a new form. It is called "Color by Skill" and addresses several skills at once as well as following directions. I can't wait to try it out this week. If you try it, let me know what you think about it!
I also added some cool playdough smush boards. The little ones love them!!! So grab a can of playdough and work on some expressive vocabulary skills. The kiddos can name the objects and smush playdough on them. Or use it for receptive language; name a picture and have the child find it and smush playdough on it. Either way, they'll have a great time!!
Have a great week!!
Until next time, keep 'em talking!
Melissa
Friday, December 4, 2015
It's Only Thursday...
Ever have one of those weeks when you have been super busy but then realize it's not Friday yet? That's me today. I've had a busy week. Basketball Monday night...Online book party Tuesday night...Endless planning, website designing, "social media butterflying" (that's a word-not really but it could be) Wednesday night and(probably) tonight too... Then I realized I hadn't blogged about this week's activities!!! What??!! That's one of my favorite things to do! So I will be giving you the condensed version of "Cookie Week."
Since I have mostly boys on my caseload, we only read "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie." No boys were going to ask for "Clara the Cookie Fairy." (boo, I like that book!)
As for language activities, we had a couple of school age coloring sheets. The early childhood kids loved their stuff!! Language for school age kids included working on irregular past tense verbs in sentences and categories. We colored chocolate chips on a cookie as the client made up sentences using the irregular past tense verbs. We also colored cookies when we could name 3-5 items that belonged in a given category.
Since I have mostly boys on my caseload, we only read "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie." No boys were going to ask for "Clara the Cookie Fairy." (boo, I like that book!)
We started out the week with the book and a drill reinforcement activity. I needed to get the kiddos back in the swing of therapy after the holidays. You can find all of the activities in the blog here. The second articulation activity we completed was a "Roll and Say" sheet. The child rolled the die, found the matching one on the worksheet, and produced the word correctly that number of times. Then the child colored/dot painted a picture in the row. The kids really loved doing that! I think we might be adding this one to our usual routine.
As for language activities, we had a couple of school age coloring sheets. The early childhood kids loved their stuff!! Language for school age kids included working on irregular past tense verbs in sentences and categories. We colored chocolate chips on a cookie as the client made up sentences using the irregular past tense verbs. We also colored cookies when we could name 3-5 items that belonged in a given category.
The little guys had a field day with our activities. Since some of my clients cannot follow the book of the week, I made a book that could go along with that is more simple (but could be used with it.) You can find "Cookie, Cookie What Do You See?" on my TpT store as well as the "Mouse has..." board. We practiced different language concepts using the Melissa and Doug Christmas cookie set and the Counting Cookie Jar. The last activity we had was a simple category sort using food, animals and clothing.
Well, I started this post on Thursday. It is now Friday at lunch time. The blog struggle was real this week!! Here's to a more organized and productive week next week!!
Melissa
Monday, November 30, 2015
Aww Man, It's Monday!
Don't we all think that after a long holiday weekend?! I had tons of things I wanted to get done during my time off...got maybe half of it done! I got a couple of home projects done but to be honest I didn't pick up my computer once!! I had big plans to get all of my December activities done and posted to TpT, catch up all my notes and reports, and organize my office. But then it got cold and the hubs lit a fire in the fireplace and the kids found movies to watch. Needless to say none of my work stuff got checked off. Funny how the warmth of a fireplace can zap the motivation right out of you!
This week our theme is cookies. It's always a fun week. When I worked in the clinic setting, we were able to bake cookies and decorate them. Since I am a traveling therapist now, I don't get to do that. We do play a game called "Cookin' Cookies" though. It's a form of memory that the kids love! You have to gather all your ingredients from the recipe card to make your cookies (or win the game!)
Our book is "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" but I also like to use "The Best Mouse Cookie" and (for the girls) "Clara, the Cookie Fairy." Our activities this week are centered around "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." I even bring the little mouse from the book with me to finish up the week.
We have dot sheets, coloring activities and even a little take home game for articulation. As always there will be a more in-depth post about articulation and language activities later on in the week.
Today's post is short and sweet. After all, it is the Monday after a break.
Until next time, keep 'em talking!
Melissa
This week our theme is cookies. It's always a fun week. When I worked in the clinic setting, we were able to bake cookies and decorate them. Since I am a traveling therapist now, I don't get to do that. We do play a game called "Cookin' Cookies" though. It's a form of memory that the kids love! You have to gather all your ingredients from the recipe card to make your cookies (or win the game!)
Our book is "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" but I also like to use "The Best Mouse Cookie" and (for the girls) "Clara, the Cookie Fairy." Our activities this week are centered around "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." I even bring the little mouse from the book with me to finish up the week.
We have dot sheets, coloring activities and even a little take home game for articulation. As always there will be a more in-depth post about articulation and language activities later on in the week.
Today's post is short and sweet. After all, it is the Monday after a break.
Until next time, keep 'em talking!
Melissa
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Thanksgiving Dinner in Speech!
I gathered brown and white construction paper to make the turkey leg and dinner roll. I used 4 cotton balls as mashed potatoes with a small yellow square as the butter. I glued yellow pony beads as corn kernels and green pony beads as peas. Of course, what's a good dinner roll without butter? So I cut a small yellow square for butter on it too. We sprinkle just a touch of poultry seasoning (which none of the kids think it smells good!) on the turkey leg. Everything was glued onto a small paper plate. The small paper plate was glued a 9x12 piece of orange construction paper.
To address articulation: I still drilled the kiddos with their target words if they were at word level. To get a food on their plate, they had to say their target 5x. Some of my kids are at phrase/sentence level so this is where we used the sentence above the food. The kids would say their sentence 3x correctly after we glued the food onto the plate. The sentence was "I know a little boy/girl who swallowed (corn.)" Only at the very end did we read the entire sentence with all the foods listed.
To address language: We worked answering "what" questions such as "what do you want?" and using 3-4 word phrases to answer those questions like "I want corn please." If you are working in a group setting, you could easily work on table manners at this time. Kids would have to say "Please pass the (potatoes)." You could even put the different "foods" in plastic serving dishes and prepare the table as if it were a real Thanksgiving dinner!! (Man, times I wished I worked in a school setting!!) Spatial concepts are easily addressed. "Where do you want the corn?" Answers could be "beside the turkey," or "between the peas and potatoes."
Sorry I had to take a break from the regular "Wee One Wednesday" post. This activity deserved it's own post!!! It is so much fun!! You can change up the foods too. One year we used elbow noodles as macaroni. You could cut strips of green paper to make a salad. Get creative with it!! Then come back and tell what you did!!
Until next time, keep 'em talking!!
Melissa
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Talking on Tuesday-Artic is a Piece of Pie!
Before taking some time off, I always like to pack our sessions with the most reps we can get in. Holidays get busy and with no sessions, sometimes my clients regress a little. I made 2 dot sheets for this week. The first goes with our story "I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie." We read the story, talk about the food she has eaten, practice any words with our sounds and (if we are lucky) use them in phrases from the story. Afterwards, I choose target words from either the story or an app (Little Bee Articulation) to complete the dot sheet with a paint dauber. I though the kids would be tired of these by now. Guess I was wrong!
For our second session of the week, I made another dot sheet with pies.
We can drill our sounds and then complete a craft activity or play a game. I am actually changing up our craft a little. The last time I did this craft, it looked similar to the picture below. There was turkey leg (complete with poultry seasoning), macaroni (elbow noodles), mashed potatoes with butter (cotton balls with yellow square) and pumpkin pie (complete with cinnamon and cotton ball whipped cream!). The kids had a blast!!! We could also work in some question asking with "May I have...?" or table manners with "Please pass the..."
For our second session of the week, I made another dot sheet with pies.
I will say doing a couple of days of this craft will make you hungry for Thanksgiving dinner!!
If you are interested in the dot sheets above, they are located in the TpT store. You can click here to find it.
Until next time, keep 'em talking!
Melissa
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Talking on a Tuesday-It's a turKey; not a turTey.
A good majority of my caseload (right now) is articulation. I like that it makes it a little easier to plan. But there's always pressure (usually self-inflicted) to get the most repetitions during a session. I want to make sure the client is getting the most of the session. To get a large number of reps, I have found this little dot sheets to be very helpful. The kids are really enjoying them as well. I created this turkey one to go with our theme this week. You can find it in the book buddy.
We have a couple of different games for this week. The first one is a matching game. Pretty simple... just match the two turkeys of the same color. This little game is good because you can use it with your smallest articulation kiddos. The other game is a little more appropriate for slightly older kids (around 5 and up). Say your target word 5x, then choose a card from the envelope. The one with the most turkeys on their fence wins.
The last activity is a take home game for the kids. I love to make these in therapy, show the kids how to play them and then send them home! I often have parents ask me for things to do at home. This is a quick activity they can do at home throughout the week. It takes 5-10 minutes to play and families can play it multiple times during the day if they want to. "Turkey Feathers" requires very little materials. I used a paper lunch sack, 2 large googly eyes and construction paper in different colors. Glue the two eyes, beak and waddle in the middle of the bag. Cut out several feathers in assorted colors. Write a target word on each feather. Each word that is said correctly 5x can be placed behind the sack so that it sticks out over it. Once all the feathers have been said, store them in the bag. I like to pair this activity with one of the little games above for our last session of the week. Both resemble "drill and kill" with a little fun added in!
As always, use your book of the week to help you target articulation as well! Our book this week is great for blends, /l/ and /s/.
Until next time, keep 'em talking!
Melissa
We have a couple of different games for this week. The first one is a matching game. Pretty simple... just match the two turkeys of the same color. This little game is good because you can use it with your smallest articulation kiddos. The other game is a little more appropriate for slightly older kids (around 5 and up). Say your target word 5x, then choose a card from the envelope. The one with the most turkeys on their fence wins.
The last activity is a take home game for the kids. I love to make these in therapy, show the kids how to play them and then send them home! I often have parents ask me for things to do at home. This is a quick activity they can do at home throughout the week. It takes 5-10 minutes to play and families can play it multiple times during the day if they want to. "Turkey Feathers" requires very little materials. I used a paper lunch sack, 2 large googly eyes and construction paper in different colors. Glue the two eyes, beak and waddle in the middle of the bag. Cut out several feathers in assorted colors. Write a target word on each feather. Each word that is said correctly 5x can be placed behind the sack so that it sticks out over it. Once all the feathers have been said, store them in the bag. I like to pair this activity with one of the little games above for our last session of the week. Both resemble "drill and kill" with a little fun added in!
As always, use your book of the week to help you target articulation as well! Our book this week is great for blends, /l/ and /s/.
Until next time, keep 'em talking!
Melissa
Monday, November 9, 2015
Monday Preview-Here Turkey Turkey!
I know when I pull out my turkey lesson plans, it's almost Thanksgiving!! I find my "second wind" to get me through the next 2 busy weeks to a peaceful few days off with family. Sleeping late and eating way too much are my motivational thoughts.
Since today is Monday, that means I preview the activities and books for the week. The first book of the week is a good one. The kids laugh every year at all the funny things the turkeys do. I like it because of all the "-ing" verbs it uses! Plus it's a countdown book since I like to reinforce counting and simple subtraction (which is about the only math I am good at!). You can find it here.
I created a book buddy to go with this book. It comes with activities for articulation such as the kids' favorite dot sheet. You can also use the turkey matching game or "Fat Turkeys Fooling on the Fence" game to drill articulation. For language, there's a coloring activity to work on irregular past tense verbs and a spatial concept activity. The games included are open ended so they could be used during language sessions as well.
Since today is Monday, that means I preview the activities and books for the week. The first book of the week is a good one. The kids laugh every year at all the funny things the turkeys do. I like it because of all the "-ing" verbs it uses! Plus it's a countdown book since I like to reinforce counting and simple subtraction (which is about the only math I am good at!). You can find it here.
I created a book buddy to go with this book. It comes with activities for articulation such as the kids' favorite dot sheet. You can also use the turkey matching game or "Fat Turkeys Fooling on the Fence" game to drill articulation. For language, there's a coloring activity to work on irregular past tense verbs and a spatial concept activity. The games included are open ended so they could be used during language sessions as well.
As for my preschool kiddos, I am working on simple book for them that is similar to a "Brown Bear" book (Look for it on Wednesday's blog!!). We will also use our popular playdough SMUSH boards to work on naming vegetables and fruits. There's also new activity called "The Turkey Eats..." (Freebie Alert!!!) that works on vocabulary as well as increasing the child's MLU. The little ones will get to dig around in the Thanksgiving themed sensory box too.
Until next time, keep 'em talking,
Melissa
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Talking on a Tuesday: Articulation is a HOOT!
I have struggled with how often to blog, how I wanted to structure posts, and if I wanted "theme-y" posts or not... I am playing with a format for the next few weeks to see how it goes and if I like it. Feel free leave feedback if you find a particular thread that you like! Either Fridays or Mondays (I have not decided which) will be my preview day. This will include what books I am using for the week, quick overview of the activities, etc. Tuesdays will be my articulation activity post! There might be a quick video on how I am using a book to address articulation, the activities we are doing and anything else articulation related. So that brings us to this week's activities!!!
"Little Owl's Night" is really great for blends. I noticed this as I was analyzing the book. At first glance, I did not notice it. But when you start going through a book, writing down different target words, you notice. I included an articulation word list in my "book buddy" for this book. You can find it listed in my TpT store.
Usually I start the first session of the week with reading the book. As I read each page (or 2), I ask simple questions to engage the client as well as practice our target sound. I continue this way throughout the book. I like to use books to target articulation because my little friends have NO IDEA they are practicing their sounds. After we read our book, I ask a few general questions about the story. Then we break out our activity. Lately, the kids have been into paper sack crafts and dot reinforcement sheets using paint daubers. I like to drill the first session of the week so we will usually use a dot sheet or a cut and glue activity. This week we have a dot sheet. Kiddos put a dot on each owl as we practice their words. I adapt the activity to phrase or sentence level if needed. The dot sheet for this week is included in the book buddy as well. This sheet is set up to get 80 reps alone!
The second session of the week includes a game that we make in therapy for the child to take home and play. We work on the child's target words as we make the activity. Then we play it so that they know how to play it at home. I also try to include directions on the back for the parents. We made the game "Owls Sitting in a Tree." I took a brown lunch sack and glued a tree to it. I cut out several owls. We practice words as I write them on the owls. Then we begin to play the game!! For each word, they can produce correctly 5x, they can put the owl on the tree. They continue this way until all the owls are on the tree. Once we are done, we can take the owls off and play again OR place them all in the bag for storage. Then I can just send home the paper bag with all the pieces in it. As you can see below this one was added as a freebie on my TpT store!!
"Whoooo" is thinking articulation practice is a "hoot?!"
Until next time,
Keep 'em talking!
Melissa
"Little Owl's Night" is really great for blends. I noticed this as I was analyzing the book. At first glance, I did not notice it. But when you start going through a book, writing down different target words, you notice. I included an articulation word list in my "book buddy" for this book. You can find it listed in my TpT store.
Usually I start the first session of the week with reading the book. As I read each page (or 2), I ask simple questions to engage the client as well as practice our target sound. I continue this way throughout the book. I like to use books to target articulation because my little friends have NO IDEA they are practicing their sounds. After we read our book, I ask a few general questions about the story. Then we break out our activity. Lately, the kids have been into paper sack crafts and dot reinforcement sheets using paint daubers. I like to drill the first session of the week so we will usually use a dot sheet or a cut and glue activity. This week we have a dot sheet. Kiddos put a dot on each owl as we practice their words. I adapt the activity to phrase or sentence level if needed. The dot sheet for this week is included in the book buddy as well. This sheet is set up to get 80 reps alone!
The second session of the week includes a game that we make in therapy for the child to take home and play. We work on the child's target words as we make the activity. Then we play it so that they know how to play it at home. I also try to include directions on the back for the parents. We made the game "Owls Sitting in a Tree." I took a brown lunch sack and glued a tree to it. I cut out several owls. We practice words as I write them on the owls. Then we begin to play the game!! For each word, they can produce correctly 5x, they can put the owl on the tree. They continue this way until all the owls are on the tree. Once we are done, we can take the owls off and play again OR place them all in the bag for storage. Then I can just send home the paper bag with all the pieces in it. As you can see below this one was added as a freebie on my TpT store!!
Until next time,
Keep 'em talking!
Melissa
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
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.
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.
Friday, September 4, 2015
Mouse Paint Craft Activity for Articulation
One thing I have figured out with my preschool bunch...They love when we make stuff with lunch bags!! I have no clue why but if we can turn it into anything, they are so excited!!
This week I decided to make them happy and come up with an activity to use their beloved lunch bags. They are cheap enough anyways, right?! I also came up with a language activity using the same craft.
I have uploaded the mouse template as well as a printable set of directions and supply list. This craft is pretty simple and can be sent home for the child to practice with a family member. First, have the child color each mouse a color from the story. You should end up with 2 white mice and 1 of each color: red, blue, yellow, orange, green and purple. As they color, feel free to discuss how to make orange, green and purple. Talk about their favorite color too! Since I work with little ones, I color their lunch bag to look like a paint can while they are coloring their mice. If you work with older kids, they can take care of this part too. Once they are done, I cut the mice out. A target word is written on each mouse. You can either use 4 words and write them twice OR use 8 words to practice. Stand up the "paint can" and get ready to begin! Have the child say a target word. Provide a verbal model since they {TYPICALLY} can't read at this age. (There are no picture cues on these!) Once the child has produced the word correctly 5x, he can put the mouse in the paint! With my kiddos working on final consonant deletion, we work on saying "in the paint!" with a focus on the final "t." For my kiddos that I want to push toward sentence level, I wrote a sentence on the front of the bag. Some of my kiddos were able to play just once during our session and some could play twice. Either way, they had a great time and super excited to take a game home to play!
If you are working in a school setting with a group, allow the students to hold onto their mice and choose one when it is their turn to practice.
TIP: I like to underline the sound in each of the words we are working on. It shows the child the sound in the word as well as notifies the parent what we worked on.
Peace, Love and Speech!
Melissa
This week I decided to make them happy and come up with an activity to use their beloved lunch bags. They are cheap enough anyways, right?! I also came up with a language activity using the same craft.
I have uploaded the mouse template as well as a printable set of directions and supply list. This craft is pretty simple and can be sent home for the child to practice with a family member. First, have the child color each mouse a color from the story. You should end up with 2 white mice and 1 of each color: red, blue, yellow, orange, green and purple. As they color, feel free to discuss how to make orange, green and purple. Talk about their favorite color too! Since I work with little ones, I color their lunch bag to look like a paint can while they are coloring their mice. If you work with older kids, they can take care of this part too. Once they are done, I cut the mice out. A target word is written on each mouse. You can either use 4 words and write them twice OR use 8 words to practice. Stand up the "paint can" and get ready to begin! Have the child say a target word. Provide a verbal model since they {TYPICALLY} can't read at this age. (There are no picture cues on these!) Once the child has produced the word correctly 5x, he can put the mouse in the paint! With my kiddos working on final consonant deletion, we work on saying "in the paint!" with a focus on the final "t." For my kiddos that I want to push toward sentence level, I wrote a sentence on the front of the bag. Some of my kiddos were able to play just once during our session and some could play twice. Either way, they had a great time and super excited to take a game home to play!
Those blobs of color are actually mice!
If you are working in a school setting with a group, allow the students to hold onto their mice and choose one when it is their turn to practice.
TIP: I like to underline the sound in each of the words we are working on. It shows the child the sound in the word as well as notifies the parent what we worked on.
Peace, Love and Speech!
Melissa
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