Seuss-tastic Activities (Part 2)

I'm loving everyone's awesome Dr. Seuss activities! I'm already looking forward to next year to try out everyone's ideas! Here are a few of the activities that will round out my week. Hope you find them useful!

Activity #1: There's a Wocket in my Pocket! Pockets!



This is one of those super easy and versatile activities! I made pockets out of paper and laminated them so they'd last longer than one session. Then, I got out my trusty flashcards and filled each pocket with a few flashcards related to each student's goals. Next, we started reading the book. When we found a "crazy word" (which conveniently, occurred on every page!), the student who was the first to hold up their pocket and yell "crazy word, crazy word" got to pull out their cards and go through their flashcards!

Activity #2: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Same and Different



I have a lot of students who are working on same and different, so this activity has already gotten a good workout this week! I made fish bowls out of construction paper and glued pictures of items to be compared and contrasted onto the fish bowls and wa-la! Easy peasy same and different activity!

Activity #3: Put Me in the Zoo Game



My students seem to like any activity that seems remotely like a game, so that's exactly what this last activity is! My friend's very artistic son drew four different pictures of the character from Put Me in the Zoo and I cut out circles with numbers 2-6 as well as plus and minus signs. Instant game! Here's how it works: Students take turns selecting dots and saying their word (in any position and at any level) as many times as the number on their dot. If they get a plus, they draw another dot and a minus means they have to put one dot back. The student with the most dots collected on their zoo character wins!

I hope you are having an awesome Dr. Seuss celebration week! If you found these activities useful and would like to stay up to date with all of my activities, please "like" my facebook page that you can find here! Also, if you are looking for additional activities, please check out my TpT store here!

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Seuss-tastic Activities (Part 1)

Dr. Seuss week is one of my favorite "therapy theme weeks"! I've been prepping quite a few activities for this week, so I decided to share a few in case you'd like to incorporate them (or your own variation) into your therapy room.

First up, The Cat in the Hat Artic!



This activity is super easy and versatile! All you have to do is cut white paper in the shape of the cat's hat, cut a few red strips of paper, and grab your artic pictures. You can add tons of pictures for extra artic practice too!! As a variation to the activity, you could always read the book together while the students look for words that include their sound and include them on the hat.

Next up, Oh, the Places You'll Go artic!



Oh, the Places You'll Go is my absolute favorite children's book, so you just know I had to include it this week! I'll be using this book and activity with my older artic students to verbalize and write goals that they have for themselves in the future. I started my own hot air balloon filled with my own goals to give them an example of the activity. Writing down our goals will help us collect our thoughts and ideally slow down and monitor our own speech. (Fingers crossed!) :)

Last up, Fox in Socks wh-questions!



I have tons of students working on wh-questions, so I found an easy sock template and wrote "who", "what", "where", "when", and "why" questions on the socks. I like this template by Twisty Noodle. Students can add a little bit of decoration to the socks once they have answered each question too!

I have a few more Dr. Seuss activities planned for this week, but they're still in the "prepping process" right now, so stay tuned for "part 2" of "Seuss-tastic Activities"!!

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“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” ― Dr. Seuss

Happy President's Day!

Happy President's Day! For those of you who still have to work this week, here are a few President's Day ideas for you...

This is actually an activity that we used for Veteran's Day, but it would certainly be a great one for Valentine's Day too. I cut out red, white, and blue hands, but certainly, you could have the kids trace and cut their own out as well. Then, we wrote anything related to each student's goals on the hands. In the picture, you can see that a few students were working on /r/. My language students were also working on describing items with attributes, stating similarities and differences, and determining a category given 3 items that belonged to the category. Obviously, you can really use this activity for any artic and/or language goal, so go to town incorporating your own goals! Here's a picture of the finished product.



If you're looking for more activities to finish off your President's Day week, you could also check out my TpT store for a few materials...

President's Day Listening Comprehension and Context Clues
This leveled activity includes 22 president cards that each have a short story about the president, a context clue question, and a listening comprehension question. One set of 22 cards include multiple choice answers for the context clue question and the other set is open ended without choices to target multiple levels.

President's Day by Anne Rockwell: A Companion Pack
Target interrogative reversals/question asking, listening comprehension, character description, story retelling, regular past tense verbs, irregular past tense verbs, tier 2 vocabulary, subjective pronouns, possessive pronouns, and auxiliary verbs (“is” vs. “are”) with this 67-page pack!

President's Day Asking Questions and Interrogative Reversals
This activity includes 24 short stories about United States presidents, as well as 21 question word cue cards. Every story also includes three cards that state a topic (related to the story) that the student must ask about.

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Hope you find these ideas and materials useful! Thanks for reading!

A 'Thank You' and a FREEBIE!

Thank you so much for your wonderful TpT support over the last few days!! You all are amazing! As a 'thank you', please enjoy this FREEBIE, "Star Power /s/-Blends"! This activity includes 24 /st/ cards, 24 /sk/ cards, 24 /sp/ cards, 16 /sm/ cards, and 16 /sn/ cards with super cute star graphics!!

Here are a few examples of the cards...

/st/ cards,

and some /sp/ cards!!

You can grab this FREEBIE at my TpT store HERE!! Enjoy! Thanks again for your support!

Winter Round-Up!

Mittens, packing peanuts, a children's game, and styrofoam balls. What do these things all have in common? Well, they are great therapy materials and games! Allow me to present to you my winter round-up!

Winter Round-Up Activity #1: Mittens in the Snow

This is one of my favorite activities to use with my students because it's so versatile! Start by getting a large container, then gather some packing peanuts, and find a few mittens. Put anything you'd like into the mittens (actual objects for younger students, artic/phonology pictures, note cards with words to define, etc) and bury them in the "snow" (aka, packing peanuts). Then, have students take turns searching for a mitten! This gets kids up and moving, plus it's just a fun winter activity! I purchased four different colors/patterns of mittens at the dollar store so that if I have a group of students that are all working on different goals, I can assign them a color/pattern of mitten to find in the snow. We did this activity last year and a few of my students actually requested it again this year, so I hope it will be a hit with your students as well!

Winter Round-Up Activity #2: Don't Break the Ice

This may seem like an obvious choice, but I've changed up the game, Don't Break the Ice, a bit to suit my needs as well as support students academically. This activity is geared more for artic sessions and/or language sessions with targets that can be rapidly reviewed. As students knock down the ice cubes, they not only score as many points as are on the cubes, but they also must say that many artic words and/or go through that many language targets. We used this game in the majority of my artic sessions last week and it allowed for tons of repetitions without the students even really noticing how much work they were doing! My 2nd - 6th graders also had to add up and/or multiply their points (think addition as well as multiplication, here!) and had to decide who had the most/least points and who was in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and/or 4th place.

Winter Round-Up Activity #3: Snowball Fight Match-Up

You'll never look at a styrofoam ball the same again when you realize that they are the makings of a great language snowball fight! Last week, I used these for a synonym and antonym match-up game in an inclusive activity that I did with a classroom teacher. Although we had a synonym and antonym snowball fight, you could have any type of snowball fight you'd like with pair-ups: associations, an item and its function, present tense verbs with past tense verbs, singular nouns with plural nouns, etc. First, pass out all of the target cards to the students, have them spread the cards out on their desk/in their area, and pick one student to begin. That student is given a "snowball" and then reads the word on his/her card. Next, the person who has the antonym match, synonym match, associated word, etc. stands up and reads their word. If the match is correct, the "snowball" is thrown to the person with the match and he/she reads another one of their cards. If you're really adventurous, you could get more than one snowball going to make it a real "fight". This activity was really engaging for our students, so I hope your students will like it just as much!

With the thought of this last activity in mind, I created a Winter Match-Ups FREEBIE for you! This activity includes: 24 antonym cards, 24 synonym cards, and 24 irregular plural noun cards. Take a look!

Antonym pairs

Synonym pairs

Irregular plural noun and singular noun pairs

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I hope that you find these activities useful and that they save you a little bit of time as far as planning and preparing are concerned! Thanks for reading!

Valentine's Day Round-Up

This Valentine's Day post is inspired by Pinterest and altered for speech and language goals and therapy!! These are some of the activities that my students will be doing to celebrate Valentine's Day!!

Valentine's Day Round-Up Activity #1: Articulation Heart Caterpillars

This activity is super easy and so much fun! Start by cutting out paper pink, red, and purple hearts. Next, print and cut out pictures of each student's target sounds and glue the pictures to the hearts. Add a head, antennae, legs, and googly eyes and you've got yourself one awesome Valentine's Day bug! (Challenge your students to make their bug really long for lots of practice!)

Valentine's Day Round-Up Activity #2: A Reinforcer Sealed with a Kiss (or a Hug)

I love any excuse to incorporate candy into my sessions and this is such an easy activity to prepare! First, start by writing numbers (I'd suggest 2-6) onto the bottom of chocolate kisses and/or hugs. (This indicates how many words a student working on articulation or phonology sounds must say, or the amount of language questions a student must answer.)

Next, put the candies upright and allow students to take turns drawing a hug or a kiss. If the student tries his/her best at their turn, they get to keep the chocolate treat!

Valentine's Day Round-Up Activity #3: Valentine's Day Grammar

This next activity can be used to target pronouns, "is" vs. "are", the "ing" ending, and syntax (to name just a few), but I'm sure you can come up with even more variations for your students' needs. Start with large paper hearts that have a large hole in the center so that students can put the heart around the item/answer they choose. If you are working on any of the goal areas that I mentioned above, this is how I would suggest targeting these areas. First, I grabbed boy and girl dolls so that my students can work on "she", "he", and "they". Students put the heart around the boy and use the word "he", the girl and use the word "she", or both dolls to target "they".

Two note cards with "is" or "are" encourage a student to choose an auxiliary verb to correctly match with the subject of their sentence.

Next, set out a few different action word cards to choose from. I love these Preschool Vocabulary Action Cards by Linguisystems, because in my opinion, the product is very versatile. Once the student selects the action that they would like, they put a post-it with "ing" at the end of the card and put another heart around that card.

To target basic syntax, have the student "read" the sentence to practice correct structure.

Valentine's Day Round-Up Activity #4: FREEBIE - Conversation Heart Reinforcer

Here is a FREEBIE that can be used for any age group and any targeted goal! This activity was inspired by Busy Bee Speech's marshmallow freebie, which you can find here. First, print and laminate a conversation heart mat for each student in your group. Students can keep any conversation heart candies that they earn throughout the session on this mat.

Next, make a few copies of the conversation heart page.

Finally, go to town targeting speech and language goals and allowing students to pick cards and enjoy their Valentine's Day treats!

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I hope that you find these activities useful and that they save you a little bit of time as far as planning and preparing are concerned! Thanks for reading!

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

In the majority of classrooms that I walked into today, teachers were discussing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with their students. I loved hearing all of their ideas of what we can do to honor Dr. King's memory. If you are spending your week working on MLK activities, here are a few ideas.

First up, a companion pack to accompany the book "Martin Luther King Jr." by Marion Dane Bauer. This packet includes:

12 listening comprehension questions related to the story,

20 association and/or compare/contrast cards,

8 past tense verb pairs,

11 past tense verb pairs,

1 character description sheet,

9 vocabulary and definition match cards,

and 18 fact vs. opinion cards!

If you'd like to pick up this activity, you can do so here!

If you're looking for an MLK activity to target similes, look no further! First, take a large piece of constriction paper and fold both sides of it into the center. Then, trace two hands and glue them on the front.

Next, make a list of all of the characteristics that MLK possessed and make a simile list! Here's ours, but I'm sure you can think of many more qualities.

Finally, go to town filling in the blanks to compare MLK to other people and things using similes!

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I'll be doing a giveaway of this activity, so please comment below to enter!