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Rock Chalk Speech Talk https://www.rockchalkspeechtalk.com Sharing Speech & Language Therapy Ideas! Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:42:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.rockchalkspeechtalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-jayhaw-32x32.png Rock Chalk Speech Talk https://www.rockchalkspeechtalk.com 32 32 Dr. Seuss Describing! https://www.rockchalkspeechtalk.com/2014/03/06/dr-seuss-describing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dr-seuss-describing https://www.rockchalkspeechtalk.com/2014/03/06/dr-seuss-describing/#respond Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:42:00 +0000 https://www.rockchalkspeechtalk.com/2014/03/06/dr-seuss-describing/ Last November, I attempted a DIY Hedbanz game with different types of dinosaurs to describe.  I used it with the afternoon prek kids in each classroom for my small group rotation, and they loved it.  They needed a bit of prompting to figure out how to describe each dinosaur, but in general, it went pretty well.  So, I decided to try it out again this week with Dr. Seuss characters!


I just did a Google search for Dr. Seuss characters and pasted them into a PowerPoint slide.  I printed off two copies of this page– one to laminate and put Velcro on for the headband, and one copy for the kids to have in front of them so they had visual choices when guessing the character on their head. 
 
(The person before me forgot to take the colored copy paper out of the printer/copy machine and I didn’t have time to print another copy, so I just dealt with it!) 

I also created visuals to help my kids give clues to their peers about the characters.  I split the objects up into “Person” “Animal” or “Thing” — this is pretty subjective, since the characters are kind of a mix of both animals and people, but I just went for it!

I also created a couple additional pages of visuals to help them in describing.  If the character in question was an animal, they could tell the “guesser” where that animal might live (in a house, in the forest, in the zoo, or in water).  If it was a person, they could describe what the person is wearing.  If it was a “thing,” they could describe what you do with it.  For every category, they could describe the colors found in the pictures.

It went really well, actually– better than I had anticipated!  Some kids didn’t *quite* grasp the concept of not telling what the character was (ie “It’d live in a zoo.. ’cause it’s an elephant!”(insert elephant noise and imitation of elephant’s swinging trunk with the kid’s arm to his nose))-ha- but like I said, for the most part, it worked out!!  I think this would also be a great way to work on describing using the EET as the visual support, too!
Want to grab a copy of these visuals?? Since Dr. Seuss is majorly copyrighted, I can’t give you anything that has his characters included… BUT, you can download this blank, editable page of separating between person/animal/thing HERE and the second page of visuals with colors/homes/clothing items & accessories HERE.
Enjoy!!
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Green Eggs & Ham craftivity https://www.rockchalkspeechtalk.com/2014/03/03/green-eggs-ham-craftivity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=green-eggs-ham-craftivity https://www.rockchalkspeechtalk.com/2014/03/03/green-eggs-ham-craftivity/#respond Mon, 03 Mar 2014 18:18:00 +0000 https://www.rockchalkspeechtalk.com/2014/03/03/green-eggs-ham-craftivity/ Last week during our jungle/wild animal theme, I attempted a hippopotamus craft that ended up being a Pinterest fail– thankfully, a new craftivity I have planned for Dr. Seuss week turned out much more successful! 🙂

I love, love, love the book, Green Eggs And Ham.  I’ve done craftivities for Cat In The Hat and One Fish, Two Fish, but haven’t done one for Green Eggs and Ham yet!  Third year’s a charm, right? 🙂

Just cut out a pan from black construction paper, and cut out some cooked egg-shaped pieces from green construction paper and you are good to go!
I found the idea here, and thought of some ways to adapt it for speech! I did artic words on this example, but there are plenty of other ways to use this, too.
Since frying pans are hot when you’re cooking, I thought it would be great to tie in the concept of hot/cold for some of my little ones.  I also made pictures for sorting by category (breakfast foods vs dinner foods) to glue onto the eggs. Grab those pictures HERE.

My plan is to draw a line across the middle of the pan to divide the two categories, and then have them glue their hot item/cold item eggs and breakfast/dinner foods onto the pans in the correct spots (ie glue the eggs with hot items on the top part of the pan, and the eggs with pictures of cold items on the bottom part of the pan).

You could also work on food vocabulary by gluing pictures of the items onto the eggs.  Work on following directions with spatial concepts using vocab or articulation pictures and this craft, too (telling them where to glue the eggs– “above” one picture, “next to” another picture, etc…)

One of my other favorite crafts to do this week is with One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.  I got the idea from Busy Bee Speech last year, from this great post full of ideas!  She used watercolor paint for her fishbowl, while I just used blue construction paper.  I’ve written speech words on the fish, and worked on spatial concepts with this craft, too (put two yellow fish on top, put a green fish under a purple fish, etc…).

What are some of your favorite crafts for Dr. Seuss week? Stay tuned for more Dr. Seuss ideas later this week!

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