MBHSM

What are you all doing to get ready for BHSM?  Every year, I try to hand out some informational text to teachers.  Some years I'm more creative than others, depending on how crazy my year is going. This year I decided to use boardmaker pictures of lips and ears.  On the back side of each picture, I compiled a list of strategies that I found online (I can't remember the website).

 

Baby Animals

This week in Kindergarten, vocabulary instruction is focusing on baby animal names.  We are reading many stories on the various names given to baby animals, concentrating on 8 vocabulary words.  I'm including a couple matching activities, a sound puzzle, and finger puppets to address this goal.  Each activity (with the exception of the print out) comes from my daughter's room!  

Easter Home Kit

I know I am not alone when I say that this time of year is super chaotic!  To top if off, St. Patrick's Day and Easter are extremely too close.  I felt like my planning for both holidays has been rushed. With that said, I still wanted to squeeze in some time to put together a home Easter kit for my students.  I tried to include activities specific to each individual goal.  I stuffed pieces of paper in each egg that targeted different skills, such as following directions, articulation, synoyms, antonyms, vocabulary, and sentence formulation.  I also added a bunny to work on prepositions.  They all included fun, decorative pencils in a cute carrot pouch.  Anytime I can incorporate carryover while still engaging the students, makes me happy!  Happy Easter!

   

St. Patrick's Day

Are you looking for a quick and fun St. Patrick's Day activity?  This new freebie includes 4 pages of vocabulary words related to St. Patrick's Day and 2 blank pages that can be used to target articulation.

Dr. Seuss's Birthday

In celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday, we are reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.  I paired this book with a rhyming activity.  I used words found in the book and wrote them on colored construction paper.  Students picked cards from a pile and matched it to its rhyming pair.  To modify this activity, some students were given one fish word and two choices (one that rhymed and one that did not).

Tying in Conjunctions

Are you looking for fresh new ideas to target conjunctions into your therapy sessions?  Check out my new activity that incorporates coordinating and subordinating conjunctions into sentences.  My students enjoyed using their "tie" to combine sentences.

Valentine's Day

One of my favorite times of the year has come...Valentine's Day! I relish in the opportunity to express how much my loved ones mean to me and Valentine's Day is no different!  A few times a year I allow my students to work on crafts and playdoh.  I mean who doesn't love playdoh?! This year our V-Day cards came out so cute (the one shown is from my daughter to her Dado).  In the center is a heart that says, "I love you because..." and the surrounding flaps describes the many reasons why they are loved so much.  Then, we made playdoh "cookies" just because it's so fun to squish and squeeze.