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)