Weather is one of my favorite Spring themes! Today's post is about some favorite weather-themed books for therapy with quick and easy book pairing activities for you. Books are SO helpful in structuring my therapy and getting ideas flowing- do they do the same for you? First up on the list.. 1. Bear Feels Scared: The beloved Bear series… in this one, Bear gets lost in the woods during a storm and his friends have to search the woods to find him! Therapy idea: do a flashlight ... read more
St. Patrick’s Day “Party” Theme
So many fun St. Patrick’s Day sensory bin fillers are in the craft stores right now! One of the fillers I added last year to my St. Patrick’s Day sensory bin were sparkly green top hats. I ended up pulling them out of the bin this year to use for another activity with beanie baby/stuffed animals to have a St. Patrick’s Day “party” in therapy! What we used:-sparkly green top hats-beanie babies and stuffed animals, or preferred characters from TV shows, etc…-painter’s tape (you’ll need ... read more
St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin for Preschool Speech Therapy
Do you use a St. Patrick's Day theme with your preschoolers? Keep reading for ideas on how to use ONE sensory bin to address a variety of goals! I first put this bin together a few years ago, challenged myself to use it for as many goals as possible, and found it was easier than I initially thought! I bought all my materials from Hobby Lobby except the plain gold coins, which I bought a few years prior at Dollar Tree. Following Directions: Start with an empty bin and give ... read more
Old MacDonald Had a Band: Circle Time
If you're a preschool SLP, chances are, you base therapy off of themes being used in the classrooms you serve. One of the first themes a preschool classroom usually uses besides a "Back to School" theme is an "All About Me" theme.. which can include body parts and the 5 senses! One of the books I love for the "hearing" part of the 5 senses incorporates music and beloved farm animals: Old MacDonald Had a Band! The Old MacDonald variation books are SO great for working on all kinds of ... read more
“Bear Wants More” activities for Speech Therapy
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 books, which helps with learning story grammar parts and their recall and ability to retell the sequence of events.Here's what I love specifically about ... read more
Simple Itsy Bitsy Spider Speech Therapy Activities for Little Learners
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 plan! Using Itsy Bitsy Spider as a theme within your weather theme is an easy way to incorporate some ... read more
Turn Your Phone into a Document Camera for Teletherapy
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 BOOM cards, I can still use those on the iPad once in-person therapies resume… but in all likelihood, I personally am probably not going to use a document cam once ... read more
5 Literacy-based Halloween Circle Times
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 favorite books to use at circle, though, and thought I'd do a round-up for you! Each of these books has their own blog post, so I'll do a photo and quick ... read more
“What is Halloween?” Circle Time
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 Knock, Trick or Treat” song/video from Super Simple Learning on the iPad. I printed the characters from this song on ... read more
“It’s Pumpkin Time!” Circle Time
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 for around $4).I use this typically more towards the middle or end of October rather than the beginning, when we first start learning about the pumpkin life cycle, because it touches ... read more
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