Pumpkin Fun!

Small foam pumpkins and Mr. Potato Head parts - use an ice-pick to make the holes. 

Great for requesting, labeling, responding to questions, barrier games, expanding phrase length, and motivation. 
Have fun!

Diana

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Story Props for The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

I just saw new story props/pictures for Linda William's book, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, on the Kizclub website. I read this book almost every October. I used real clothing as props and the students participated.  

The Kizclub story props are great used as felt board pictures, as pull-offs, on device overlays, for sequencing, and in PowerPoint stories and whiteboard activities. 

If you read this book next month, make sure that you check out Playing With Words 365 for the 2011 blog post about this book. She had many activities and links to activities to go along with this book. 

Diana

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Fabulous Fall Links

Enjoy fabulous fall links to activities that require little or no cost and preparation, but can be used for a variety of speech and language objectives.

Pick a Pumpkin and read Pumpkin, Pumpkin at Starfall.com

Make the Autumn Things Box at Kizclub.com

Play Halloween and Fall games at Sesame Street.org.

Orange Pumpkin, Orange Pumpkin, a book, along printables for students to make and sequence their own books, can be found at First Grade a la carte. 

A pumpkin sequencing activity with a link to the really nice photographs from The First Grade Parade. 

Diana

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Winners of the Apps from the Mobile Education Store

Today is the day to announce the winners of promotional codes for three apps from the Mobile Education Store; one each for Rainbow Sentences, Preposition Builder, and the new TenseBuilder. 

I assigned a number to each person who commented on the The Budget SLP Facebook page and on this blog. Thank you to all who participated. I used the app, Winning Ticket , to randomly choose the numbers.  This is a good app to use when you have multiple prizes to give away! 

The winners are Nikki Heyman, Patti (who commented on 9/19), and Sarah Lively. Winners, please contact me at Diana@thebudgetslp.com. The first to contact me gets their choice of apps. 

Thank you to Kyle Tomson, president of the Mobile Education Store for the three great apps. 

Diana

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A Chance to Win Apps for Your Therapy Sessions

A reminder - Comment on my blog post or my Facebook page for a chance to win one of three apps from the Mobile Education Store.

I have three promotional codes for giveaways; one each for Rainbow Sentences, Preposition Builder, and the new TenseBuilder. If you would like a chance to win one of these apps, comment about a Mobile Education Store app that you use or that you want on my Facebook page or on this post before 6:00P.M.  The winners will be chosen randomly and announced Monday, September 24th after 6:00 P.M. 

Diana

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Laminate Your Leaves!

 Every fall, the early childhood teachers talked about fall and falling leaves and in speech/language group, I often read one of Jean Warren's Object Rhymes. The one for fall goes like this:

Leaves on the dog. 

Leaves on the street.

Leaves on the ground. 

Leaves on the wagon. 

Leaves on the pumpkin. 

Leaves on the house.

Leaves on me. 

Leaves on the car. 

Leaves on the feet. 

Leaves on the bear. 

Leaves everywhere! 

I used objects (a toy dog, bear, paper street, etc.) and the children moved around the room putting the leaves on the objects. I took pictures of the leaves on the objects, made PowerPoints, and device overlays. 

I liked using real leaves, but they were easily crumbled, could be chewed on, and  just downright messy. So, I laminated about 25 different leaves and after the "fall leaves" lesson was over, I put my leaves into my fall file to use for another year. 

Diana

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App Giveaway From the Mobile Education Store

Last week, I was contacted by the Kyle Tomson, president of the Mobile Education Store (MES), with an offer of promotional app codes to some of his company’s apps.  I know many SLPs that like the MES apps and they get great reviews; however, I cannot use the apps as I no longer work in the traditional therapy setting and my students have much different language needs.  

So, instead, Kyle gave me three promotional codes for giveaways; one each for Rainbow Sentences, Preposition Builder, and the new TenseBuilder. If you would like a chance to win one of these apps, comment about a Mobile Education Store app that you use or that you want on my Facebook page or on this post.  The winners will be chosen randomly and announced on Monday, September 24th after 6:00 P.M. 

These are only three of several Mobile Education Store apps for iPad and iPhone and there are more in the works. To find out about about new MES products and other promotions, sign up for the MES newsletter. 

Free materials are always a good thing - thank you MES!

Diana

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