Sharing Speech & Language Therapy Ideas!
Spring is here, which means it’s time to pull out my favorite “Bear” book of the whole series… “Bear Wants More.” I love using book series like the Bear books or the Turkey books throughout the year because the characters, and, in the case of the Bear books, the setting, become familiar and the style is similar throughout the… Read More
It’s April, and your preschool classrooms are probably doing a weather unit. This was always one of my favorite themes in the Spring, but, also with Spring time comes the end-of-year sprint with 5,000 evaluations, between annual IEPs, birth-to-three services initial evaluations for kids turning 3 in the spring and summer, kindergarten transitions, etc… which leaves basically no time to… Read More
At this point, I’m hoping teletherapy is a short-lived way of life, and that it’s not going to continue into the Fall (Aren’t we all?) Keeping that hope alive also means that spending $50+ on a document cam for a situation so short-term isn’t really at the top of my list! At least with investing in digital materials like… Read More
With so many Halloween books out there- how do you narrow it down?! Truth be told, I’m still struggling with that (my husband and the friends we had in town visiting pretty much had to peel me away from the Halloween kids’ book section at Target last weekend- but it’s fine. Everything’s fine.) I have narrowed down some of my… Read More
I looove this circle time activity because it’s super simple, fun, and interactive! We start out using the book, “What is Halloween?” by Harriet Ziefert. (Find it here on Amazon or here on Thriftbooks.) This is a really simple lift-the-flap book, and is great for introducing some basic concepts surrounding Halloween! After reading the book, we watched the adorable “Knock… Read More
So many good pumpkin books are out there to choose from, but one October book I like to use at circle is called “It’s Pumpkin Time!” by Zoe Hall. (This is a Scholastic book I can’t find on their website anymore, or on Amazon or Thriftbooks, BUT.. at the time of this post, there are several copies available on eBay… Read More
