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 Language Therapy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Language Therapy. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
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
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Thursday Thoughts on Language: Food!!
Let's be honest...one week from Thanksgiving, we're not thinking about work or cleaning or even Christmas shopping! We are all thinking about how much food we are about to consume!! This week's theme on Thanksgiving food has not helped at all!! I've spent the entire week talking about turkey, salads, veggies (yuck!), and desserts!!! Do you know how hard it is to speak when your mouth is watering?!
Our language activities have been just as fun as the articulation ones. I mean did you see the activity I posted about yesterday?!!?!! I liked it so much it got it's own post!
I made this little pronoun activity since I have several that needed to work on using "she." The great thing about this one is you can also turn it into an articulation activity for the short sentence level. Plus I also used it to address "what" questions asking the question "What did she eat?" AND I used it to work on increasing MLU with 3 word phrases and vocabulary.
This is my last post about Thanksgiving food. I know most of my school SLPs friends are out all next week. Not going to lie...I'm a little jealous! But I have a short 2 day week next week so I think I will manage!!
Until next time, keep 'em talking!
Melissa
Our language activities have been just as fun as the articulation ones. I mean did you see the activity I posted about yesterday?!!?!! I liked it so much it got it's own post!
I made this little pronoun activity since I have several that needed to work on using "she." The great thing about this one is you can also turn it into an articulation activity for the short sentence level. Plus I also used it to address "what" questions asking the question "What did she eat?" AND I used it to work on increasing MLU with 3 word phrases and vocabulary.
Since I did not write the preschool post this week, I am adding the cute little book we read here. Some of my little guys aren't old enough to follow the main book of the week. Sometimes, I am wanting to emphasize certain vocabulary. I made a little book for this week along with a naming/identifying food SMUSH board. "Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Pie" is perfect for working on food vocabulary!
Until next time, keep 'em talking!
Melissa
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