Three years of winter themed posts have been updated. Visit these posts for FREE downloads and links to FREE activities featuring snow, penguins, mittens, Groundhog's Day, Valentine's Day and more.
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Saturday, January 2, 2016
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Fall and Halloween - Updated and FREE
Three years of fall and Halloween posts have been
updated (October 2019).
Visit these posts for FREE downloads and links to FREE activities.
Visit these posts for FREE downloads and links to FREE activities.
Diana
© 2015
Some graphics from Sweet Clip Art - http://sweetclipart.com/
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Fire Safety
Updated October 2018
Fire Safety week begins tomorrow and I noticed that my 2012 post, Therapy in the Classroom: Part I, was getting many hits. It's not in the title, but the language activities involve fire safety and fire trucks. Find FREE PowerPoint books, a preposition activity, and much more - all links have been updated.
At Teachers Pay Teachers, find almost 200 FREE items with a search for "fire safety." Check out the Fire Safety Vocabulary Cards from Teaching Talking and the Fire Safety - What ifs from Elementary Matters.
There are many FREE fire safety apps in the iTunes App Store. Sparky's Match Game is a great activity to remind children to leave the house when they hear the smoke alarm.
Sparky's Firehouse and Operation Edith are good apps to project onto a whiteboard. To maximize student language, you control the apps and students direct the actions.
Sparky's apps, videos, and much more can also be played on any computer! Visit Sparky.org at the National Fire Protection Association's site for kids.
Diana
© 2015
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Back to School with the Mouse
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Your students will love this animated version of If you Take a Mouse to School on YouTube. Check out Andrew Ghio's other animated books as well.
At Teachers Pay Teachers find FREE If You Take a Mouse to School Visuals and If You Take a Mouse to School Spatial Concept Flashcards.
Find more visual supports at Boardmaker Online and look at my Why Question - Companion Activity for If You Take a Mouse to the Movies. It can easily be used with If You Take a Mouse to School.
Kristen, at Pinning With a Purpose, used this book to teach her children the setting of a story. Her activity could be adapted to use in therapy to teach setting or where questions.
Visit Kinder Gals to see their version of If You Take a Mouse to School. They use the book to introduce their students to school personnel and locations.
At Teachers Pay Teachers find FREE If You Take a Mouse to School Visuals and If You Take a Mouse to School Spatial Concept Flashcards.
Find more visual supports at Boardmaker Online and look at my Why Question - Companion Activity for If You Take a Mouse to the Movies. It can easily be used with If You Take a Mouse to School.
Kristen, at Pinning With a Purpose, used this book to teach her children the setting of a story. Her activity could be adapted to use in therapy to teach setting or where questions.
Visit Kinder Gals to see their version of If You Take a Mouse to School. They use the book to introduce their students to school personnel and locations.
Find free word cards (with visuals), a snack idea, and mouse craft at 1st Grade hip hip Hooray.
2 Teaching Mommies offers a free printable "school supply unit." The pictures can be printed and used for numerous classroom activities. The Which is Different Activity would make a nice why/how question activity.
There are many activity suggestions for this book to elicit oral language at Promoting Success for You and and Your Students. Here are just a few.
The interactive, printable book In My Backpack can be found at 4GASLPs. Recite "Backpack, backpack, what is in the backpack?" as you pull items out of a backpack. Students can name the items and answer questions about the functions of the objects. I created a simple PowerPoint book to go along with the activity. You can download Backpack, Backpack here.
Take pictures of student's backpacks and lunchboxes. Students can respond to the questions, "Whose backpack is this?" or "Whose lunchbox is this?" Responses might include mine, my, pointing to self or others, or possessive nouns such Mary's backpack.
At MouseCookieBooks.com find activities, games, songs, printables and a teaching guide with over 40 activity ideas to use with Laura Numeroff's books.
This book and other Laura Numeroff books are easily used for discussing wants and needs.
Have fun describing school supplies. Use magnifying glasses or a document camera to inspect a variety of school supplies.
I hope that you found this post useful. My posts will occur about once each month - minus summer break of course. However, I am always looking for freebies and new therapy ideas and will share these weekly on my Facebook Page. 2 Teaching Mommies offers a free printable "school supply unit." The pictures can be printed and used for numerous classroom activities. The Which is Different Activity would make a nice why/how question activity.
There are many activity suggestions for this book to elicit oral language at Promoting Success for You and and Your Students. Here are just a few.
- Look at the illustrations of the boy and mouse getting ready for school. Ask your students to tell what they do to get ready for school each morning.
- Create a pretend story of a stuffed animal's adventures in school.
- Do a simple science experiment (Adapt this for therapy by taking photos of the steps and allowing students to tell the procedure using the photos for support.).
The interactive, printable book In My Backpack can be found at 4GASLPs. Recite "Backpack, backpack, what is in the backpack?" as you pull items out of a backpack. Students can name the items and answer questions about the functions of the objects. I created a simple PowerPoint book to go along with the activity. You can download Backpack, Backpack here.
Take pictures of student's backpacks and lunchboxes. Students can respond to the questions, "Whose backpack is this?" or "Whose lunchbox is this?" Responses might include mine, my, pointing to self or others, or possessive nouns such Mary's backpack.
At MouseCookieBooks.com find activities, games, songs, printables and a teaching guide with over 40 activity ideas to use with Laura Numeroff's books.
This book and other Laura Numeroff books are easily used for discussing wants and needs.
Have fun describing school supplies. Use magnifying glasses or a document camera to inspect a variety of school supplies.
Diana
© 2015
Friday, May 1, 2015
Hop into Better Speech and Language Month with these 40+ Frog Themed Links to Activities
Frogs can live in most habitats and
climates, lay hundreds of eggs, breathe through their skin, and make very long
jumps. AND, frogs can be found, as the main characters, in numerous children's
literature selections making them the perfect candidates for thematic lessons.
All About Frogs
The life cycle of the frog
pairs well with sequencing, retelling, verb tense, and more. Search for
"frogs" at We Give Books.org to find three online books about the frogs and their life cycle.
Both Make
Learning Fun and A Child's
Place have free frog life cycle sequence cards in color and black and
white. Carrie Manchester, at Carrie's Speech Corner has FREE Frog
Life Cycle booklets in her TpT store. Find a Frog Life Cycle
Craft at DLTK's Crafts for Kids.
If you are reading any of
Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books,
visit The
Virtual Vine for a good comparison of
frogs and toads. You will learn some new facts and find many frog themed
activities as well.
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See how Speech
Gadget uses Jump, Frog, Jump in therapy.
I like the Jump, Frog,
Jump stick puppets and word walls at Make
Learning Fun.
Teach color matching at
Learning and Teaching Preschoolers' Jump
Frog Jump Color Floor Game
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The
Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog {Book Pictures and Questions} from Autism Helper's TpT store.
There Was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Frog story props by Curly Q Speech.
Froggy
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Froggy is everyone's favorite! Did you know that he went to
Hawaii? Read the FREE online version of Froggy Goes to Hawaii at We Give Books.org. Find a good
wh-question activity for this book at the Utah Education
Network and a FREE comparison printable for this book at Wise Owl Factory.
Rebecca Bond does a nice job of reading Froggy Goes to Hawaii on You
Tube. This might be a great way for students to review the book at home or
in a center.
There are over 20 Froggy books. Here are links to activities to
use with some of these books.
- Pizza Hut's Book It site
has Read
and Do Activities for eight of the Froggy books. Vocabulary words,
definitions, and wh questions are presented for each book.
- FREE printable for Froggy
Builds a Tree House at The Wise Owl
Factory.com
- Story props for Froggy Gets
Dressed at Kizclub.com.
- Froggy Gets
Dressed Lotto.
Five Green and Speckled Frogs
Find very cute story props (complete with a log) and a mini-book for Five Green and Speckled Frogs at Kizclub.com.
Itsy Bitsy Spider and Green Speckled Frogs, visual supports for familiar
preschool songs made by SLP Overloaded.
Find very cute story props (complete with a log) and a mini-book for Five Green and Speckled Frogs at Kizclub.com.
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Another cute printable to use as story props for Five Green
Speckled Frogs can be found at Activity Village.co.uk.
Here's a Poster for Five Green and Speckled Frogs from Make Learning Fun.
Directions at Preschool Speechie's Green Speckled Frogs suggest that wikki stix be used as tongues so that the flies will stick to the tongues.
For Articulation
Nina McKenzie, at TpT, made this FREE, 39 page, Articulation Frog Toss Game to use with s, sh, and s-blends.
Feed the frog as you say the words with Final Consonant Flies from Kari Radovich (Rock Chalk Speech Talk).
AND, MORE!!!
Where
is Little Frog? - A book for Positional Concepts from Jessica Finch
(The Speech Peach).
Leaping
Lily Pads for Object Function from Kari Radovich (Rock Chalk
Speech Talk).
Look at all the frog themed ideas found at The Busy Speech Path's
Pinterest Board - All About
Pond Life.
Hoppin' on Multiple Meaning Words from Pitner's Potpourri.
Emergent Readers Who am I? and Five
Buzzing Flies are found at MakeLearning
Fun. These will match goals involving sentence length, verb tense,
descriptive words, and the concept "around."
Frogs
and Flies: Quantity Concepts More, Less, Altogether from Speech
Sprouts' TpT store.
Frog Hop Barrier Game from Speech Path Track.
Build a Frog and Friends - Rainy Day Rewards is a no-print interactive activity designed for use on a computer or iPad. Use with an individual or small group as reinforcement with almost any lesson.
The
Lost Button Story Sequencing Cards to use with Arnold Lobel's Frog
and Toad are Friends: The Lost Button.
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Diana
© 2015
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Six Weeks of Summer - Interactive Speech and Language Practice Activities
I have just updated my page, Six Weeks of Summer - Interactive Speech and Language Practice Activities. This page includes links and free apps easily available to parents with Internet access and/or mobile technology.
Customize summer activities for your students by choosing apps and links to add to a calender, make a hotlist, or post the links to your web page.
Enjoy!
Diana
© 2015
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
What's that Smell?
This is not a typical post for the Budget SLP, but something that needs to be passed on to all educators. And, maybe not just educators . . .
I have a chemical sensitivity usually triggered by, but not limited to, fragrances. When exposed, my eyes and nose burn and I can often taste the chemicals in the fragrance. Extended exposure causes headaches and sometimes nausea. In my home, most detergents, cleaning products, and personal care products are fragrance free.
I work in the special education world and have been overpowered by fragrances in classrooms, conference rooms, therapy rooms, and restrooms. Culprits include cologne or perfume (worn by parents, SLPs, teachers, and administrators), air fresheners, cleaning supplies, and insecticides.
If these fragrances cause me such physical discomfort, how do they affect our young students with allergies and asthma? What about our students with sensory issues?
Students with autism can be hypersensitive to odors. These students may also have difficulty communicating their discomfort. Inappropriate behaviors may occur as they resist being with a person or in a place due to what is perceived as an intense smell. Undesirable smells can even cause toileting issues, difficulty eating, and nausea.
For your students' comfort (and possibly your co-workers’), consider removing air fresheners, take home the flowery soaps and lotions, and save your perfume for date night.
I have a chemical sensitivity usually triggered by, but not limited to, fragrances. When exposed, my eyes and nose burn and I can often taste the chemicals in the fragrance. Extended exposure causes headaches and sometimes nausea. In my home, most detergents, cleaning products, and personal care products are fragrance free.
I work in the special education world and have been overpowered by fragrances in classrooms, conference rooms, therapy rooms, and restrooms. Culprits include cologne or perfume (worn by parents, SLPs, teachers, and administrators), air fresheners, cleaning supplies, and insecticides.
If these fragrances cause me such physical discomfort, how do they affect our young students with allergies and asthma? What about our students with sensory issues?
Students with autism can be hypersensitive to odors. These students may also have difficulty communicating their discomfort. Inappropriate behaviors may occur as they resist being with a person or in a place due to what is perceived as an intense smell. Undesirable smells can even cause toileting issues, difficulty eating, and nausea.
For your students' comfort (and possibly your co-workers’), consider removing air fresheners, take home the flowery soaps and lotions, and save your perfume for date night.
Diana
© 2015
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