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September 2-12, 2014 Peek At Speech: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Peek At Speech: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Theme: Family/Manners

Book:  Goldilocks and the Three Bears By: Paul Galdone

Vocabulary: porridge, chair, bed, Papa Bear, Mama Bear, Baby Bear, Goldilocks, forest, house, big, medium, little

 

This week in speech we are reading The Three Bears by Paul Galdone to go with our family/manners theme.  This week we are working on comprehending and identifying BIG, MEDIUM, and LITTLE and sorting objects/characters/etc into these categories.  In centers, we will be working on vocabulary, describing, and requesting.  We will also complete a sorting activity with items found in our story.  In addition, we will continue to discuss the concepts of Who is in our story, Where our story takes place, and How do the characters in our story feel?  We will incorporate Braidy the Story Braid puppet to help visualize these concepts.  Suggested activities to complete with your child to incorporate both language enhancing strategies and articulation practice include:

1. Go to the Speech Room News blog and use the resources there to continue talking about our story this week.  It includes many activities that will work on describing actions, answering questions, sequencing, sorting by size and same/different, and pronouns, to name a few.  The link is http://thespeechroomnews.com/2012/12/goldilocks-3-bears-book-companion.html

2.  Included in the folder is a sizing activity.  You and your child can cut these cards out and practice identifying big, medium, and little for each item.  While completing this activity, you can use the pictures as prompts for having your child retell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

3. Here are the characters from our story.  Use the above size sorting activity along with the characters to practice retelling the story.  

4. Review vocabulary from our unit.

**Use these activities to practice articulation for target sounds.  If your child says his/her target sound incorrectly, take the opportunity to repeat back what your child said and over emphasize the target sounds.  Talk about how your child can HEAR the sounds produced and can LOOK in a mirror to watch their mouth produce the sounds.

 

August 25-29, 2014 Peek At Speech: My Five Senses

Peek At Speech: My Five Senses

Theme: Five Senses

Book:  My Five Senses By: Aliki

Vocabulary: five, senses, eyes, see, nose, smell, ear, hear, tongue, taste, finger, touch

This week in speech we are reading My Five Senses by Aliki as part of our five senses theme.  We will work on describing our five senses and what body parts are used to sense.  We will complete multiple activities that allow students to use their five senses such as going on a color scavenger hunt or guessing different sounds.  Suggested activities to complete with your child to incorporate both language enhancing strategies and articulation practice include:

1.  Attached is a link to a book called My Five Senses.  Complete the book by finding pictures or drawing pictures of things your child may see, hear, taste, touch, or smell in your home.  Next, look at each page of the book together and discuss each page and decide what sense the child uses. Finally, read the story together, and for each page ask questions like, “what does a __ look like?” or “what does a car horn sound like?”

http://www.worksheetplace.com/mf/A-5-Sense-Book.pdf

2.  Attached is a link to a five senses sorting activity.  Complete with your child.  Once again, highlight the five senses and the body parts that help you sense.

http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/media/images/free_resources/teachers_corner/printables/5sensessortinggame.pdf

3.  Review vocabulary from our unit.

 

**Use these activities to practice articulation for target sounds.  If your child says his/her target sound incorrectly, take the opportunity to repeat back what your child said and over emphasize the target sounds.  Talk about how your child can HEAR the sounds produced and can LOOK in a mirror to watch their mouth produce the sounds.

 

August 18-22, 2014 Peek At Speech: The Way I Feel

Peek At Speech: The Way I Feel

Theme:  Emotions/Feelings

Book: The Way I Feel  By: Janan Cain

Vocabulary: smile, feelings, silly, jealous, frown, happy, scared, excited, bored, proud, angry, sad

 

This week in speech we are reading The Way I Feel by Janan Cain as part of our feelings theme.  We will be talking about our feelings and what can make us feel certain ways.  We will also be working on associating facial expressions (smiles vs. frowns) to understand what others are feeling.  We will work on describing and telling stories about times when we felt certain ways.  In centers this week, we will be working on individual goals and objectives as we read an interactive book entitled Happy Face, Happy Face What Do You See?  The book activity allows for practice on identifying and describing feelings.  In addition, we will incorporate a Mr. Potato Head activity where your child can practice describing how he feels by changing his facial expressions.  Suggested activities to complete with your child to incorporate both language enhancing strategies and articulation practice include:

1. Read the emergent reader Feelings.  Have your child color the pictures and then take the opportunity to read the story to your child.  Each page identifies a different feeling with pictures of children.  As you read the book together, ask your child about WHAT makes him/her happy/sad/etc?

2.  Next is a worksheet that allows your child to draw the faces for many different feelings.  You can work on describing faces such as a happy face would have a smile while a sad face would have a frown.  Demonstrate these features while you describe them.  Have your child show you these different faces.

3.  Look in the mirror and practice making “feelings faces.”  You can say, “Show me a happy face,” and both you and your child can look in the mirror together.  Talk about/describe the face you see in the mirror.

4. Review vocabulary from our unit.

 

**Use these activities to practice articulation for target sounds.  If your child says his/her target sound incorrectly, take the opportunity to repeat back what your child said and over emphasize the target sounds.

 

 

 

Peek At Speech: If You Take A Mouse To School

I have many exciting units planned for this year, starting with Back to School. On this blog, you will find the books we are reading, unit vocabulary and songs, and suggested activities to work on speech/language skills at home. I encourage you to sing the songs and read the books at home with your child as well as use the resources suggested to carryover speech/language skills from the therapy room to your home.  

Peek At Speech:  If You Take A Mouse To School

Theme: Back to School

Book: If You Take a Mouse to School  By: Laura Numeroff

Vocabulary: lunchbox, bus, ball, backpack, pencil, crayon, read, paper, sandwich, mouse, blocks, school, book

Song:

Wheels on the Bus

The wheels on the bus go round and round

Round and round, round and round

The wheels on the bus go round and round

All through the town.

 

Repeat With New Verses

The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish

The door on the bus goes open and shut

The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep

The gas on the bus goes glug, glug, glug

The money on the bus goes clink, clink, clink,

The baby on the bus says, wah, wah, wah!

The people on the bus say, shh, shh, shh,

The mommy on the bus says, I love you

This week in speech we are reading If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff.  We will be talking about all the school related vocabulary and the different activities in which the mouse participates.  Also, we will practice requesting, using spatial concepts (in my backpack), and answering questions about our story.  In addition, we will talk about the concept of IF…THEN or CAUSE…EFFECT as this concept is seen throughout our story.  In order to demonstrate the cause/effect concept, we will be building a "mouse house" from our story with Legos and then knocking it down.  While completing this activity, we will also practice describing blocks by color and size.  Suggested activities to complete with your child to incorporate both language enhancing strategies and articulation practice include:

1.  On The First Day Of School is about a mouse and what he does and sees on his first day of school.  Have your child color the pictures in the story and then read the story to your child. Talk about what the mouse sees at his school, and have your child talk about what he/she sees at Russell.  Also, ask your child WHO is in the story, WHERE the story takes place, and WHAT the mouse sees.  Below is the link to the story.

 http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/MousesFirstDayofSchool-EmergentReader.htm

2.  Color vocabulary words.  Practice describing and labeling/identifying new vocabulary.  Just copy and paste the picture below into a word document, print, and practice!!!

 

3. School Supply Scavenger Hunt: As a family, "search" for school supplies from the vocabulary list.  Practice labeling vocabulary, describing objects, increasing utterance length, i.e. "I see a yellow crayon."  You can model the increased utterance and have your child repeat it back to you.

4. Review the copy of vocabulary words for this week.  Have your child practice labeling and expressing these words.  Just print this picture off to review or look at the picture together on the computer!!

**Use these activities to practice articulation for target sounds.  If your child says his/her target sound incorrectly, take the opportunity to repeat back what your child said and over emphasize the target sounds.

It is my pleasure to serve your child, if you have any questions, please contact me at [email protected]

Sarah Beckman M.Ed., CCC-SLP