Valentine's Fun

I know it's not Valentine's Day yet, but growing up I found it to be one awesome holiday. For the following reasons:

1) My favorite color combo is red and purple (much to the chagrin of ...well, fashion in general)
2) I love flowers.
3) I love chocolate.
4) I love chocolate.

So I have started off Valentine's week the best way I know how...heart garland articulation.

This is a super fun and easy craft I saw on Pintrest and adapted a little bit for speech kiddos sake.

 1) Print activity on Valentine's Colored Paper. You can have students cut the strips or pre-cut to save time. Make sure if you have students cut out strips, that you specify to only cut on the solid lines.

2) Fold paper on the dotted line.

3) Bring pictures on each end together to make a heart shape.

4) Put a folded Strip into the center of the heart and staple

5) repeat

 

You can use it to target sounds in isolation (point at the picture and say the initial sound) , sounds in all positions of words, carrier phrases (I fold/staple the_____ etc) and novel sentences. I call this a win win win situation.

You can find it here at my TPT store

For my language kiddos (and my language in the classroom kiddos) we read one of my all time favorite Valentine's Day Books:

                                                          (picture from Amazon.com)
Boys and girls love this book. It is great for a retell because it has a simple story line. It is also fun for expanding humor. (Why wouldn't the girls want the heart Mortimer is trying to give them? etc)

Reinforcer games: A great way to plan when the school year gets snowy

Well, it seems as if I spoke too soon when I last posted leaving the polar vortex. We have had more days off since that post. I am missing my speech buddies! The worst part of being unexpectedly off school is not being able to plan too many in depth lessons.Who knows when you will get through the whole thing? With lack of opportunities continuous instruction, I have been drilling and killing skills this past month. Not my preferred method of learning in the speech room, but what can you do? Make themed reinforcer games? I think so.

You can find my 3 favorite reinforcer games for the month of February on my TPT site!

Groundhog's day
The student with the most groundhogs who didn't see their shadow (heads up groundhogs) wins!

 Olympic Rings
Roll the dice to collect the Olympic rings

 Cupid's Arrow
The student with the most arrows in their quiver at the end of the game wins!

Happy February everyone!