Falling Leaves WH questions

Just a quick idea for getting your students up and moving. Many of my students are working on WH inferencing questions. In the craft store last week, I found these foam leaves for cheap. I wrote the answers to the WH questions on the leaves, and added magnets to the back of them.

The Speech Room looked colorful with the language activity. My students love anything that doesn't include sitting at a desk doing paper/pencil work!

Hope this gets you thinking about getting your students up from the desk! 

Articulation Eye Spy Bags

Hi friends. I'm sharing a project with you today that I made over the summer. It's a quick and easy tutorial for a speech therapy activity.

You’ve likely seen ‘Eye Spy’ activities floating around.  They’re available here on Amazon. I thought they would be a good quiet activity for articulation kids. In small groups they keep on student  busy when I’m spending a few minutes of 1-1 time with another student. They are also something I use to occupy the kids for a second if I need to jot something down in their treatment notes, if I have to answer a call to take a msg. or if I need to talk to another teacher.   I made my own eye spy bags for the /k/ and /f/ sound.

There are some nice tutorials out there in blog land, so google it if you want yours fancier! I wanted mine cheap, fast and easy so here is what I came up with.

Articulation Eye Spy Bags.

1 bag poly-pellets (I got mine at Michael’s Craft Store) – 1 bag of this will make 2 eye spy bags

1 pencil case with a clear front (From WalMart for 50 cents!)

10 Trinkets with target sounds (gathered from misc. places. You could order a bag of them from etsy if needed)

10 Trinkets WITHOUT target sound.

Hot Glue

Ribbon

Camera

Lay out only your target sound trinkets. Take a picture of them. Print and laminate the picture. Place half a bag of pellets into the pencil case. Add trinkets with target sounds. Pick about 10 other trinkets that don’t include the target sound. Close the pencil case, check to make sure the filling seems like the right amount. It shouldn’t be so stuffed you can’t search for your items! Hot glue over your pencil case zipper to prevent a terrible pellet spill! Use a ribbon to tie the picture of the target sounds to your pencil case. That’s it! It just took me about 5 minutes to assemble them once I had all the materials.

This bag has /f/ items such as butterfly, fish, and leaf. It's been a great activity for preschoolers!

Let me know if you have any questions.

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Resonance Feedback

One of my new students this year is working on resonance issues. He has a nasal emission in place of strident sounds. He's been checked out and cleared by the ENT of any structural or anatomical defects. We've been working on producing strident sounds and are making some good progress. He can produce sounds in isolation and we're working on sounds in words. A fellow SLP in my district gave me a heads up about a few applications to use to give my little guy some bio-feedback. I thought maybe you could use them too!

The Audacity program is a free download. It's easy to use. You just open it, press the red record button, and go! In this example below you can see the difference between 'snack' and 'nack'. We use it by comparing my good recording to his recording. He tried to make his word long like mine (we exaggerate the /s/.)

Download the program at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

You can also use the 'Garage Band' application that comes on Macs. I have tried both, but find the sounds are easier to compare on Audacity because they are easier to view.

Contact Paper Collage

Happy Tuesday Everybody!! This is a quick activity that I did today. My little ones (think age 3-5) LOVED it. For the older preschoolers it went a little too fast but we still had fun! We read a book about fall and then we made this collage. I taped a strip of contact paper to the cabinet, sticky side out. Then we added objects. (YES - I did get this idea from pinterest - but I can't find my link!)

 We used fall shapes (turkey, apples, pumpkins, leaves), small foam leaves and a box of confetti I had laying around!




We had lots to work on. Some friends said articulation words to earn confetti. Others working on following multistep directions, positional concepts, vocab, etc!  They thought it was especially funny to be told to put leaves on top of the turkey's head! For nonverbal preschoolers we worked on requesting items with signs and initial consonants of words. It was highly motivating! Hope it gives you a little inspiration!

Straw Planes Receptive Language Activity

Hey friends. Just posting this quick activity I did last week with some kids. I saw these cute planes at Allfortheboys.com. They're a little different than the same old paper airplane activity

Target 1 & 2 step directions while you build a straw plane. You can then work on just about any goals while you race your planes and discuss them. Verb tenses, comparatives/superlatives, retelling/sequencing and sentence expansion - Just to name a few! I also did this with my kiddo's working on /s/ and /s/ blends! Lots of opportunity for carryover into conversation!

Download it for free HERE.

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Cars Roll & Remove Reinforcer

So many of my speech groups contain very diverse groups of kids. I love this quick game because the kids can manage it themselves, it's fast and it works for those diverse groups where no 2 kids are working on similar goals. Although it's titled as a articulation reinforcer... it works for anything.

Students just cover their game card with bingo chips. They roll the dice and then remove the chip on the number they roll. Quick and Easy!

Download Roll & Remove HERE.

Have a great weekend!

Phineas & Ferb Make Inferences

Phineas & Ferb have been busy in my speech room. As far as speech and language therapy materials go, they're pretty cute! This free speech and language resource helps students decide which inference makes sense!

Download these guys for free HERE!!!

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