What Did You Do? Wednesday

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

I am attempting to get on a blog schedule, so I decided I would start "What did you do?" Wednesdays! I will try to post every Wednesday with pictures of what I did in therapy.

A student of mine has to wear an eye patch to strengthen one of her eyes. Guess what? In first grade I did too! I wanted to help her feel a bit more normal,  so I showed her how I used to wear mine (hers is much fancier now that technology makes one use patches).  I think it made her feel better and hopefully more motivated to wear the patch!

I finally got around to playing my Who Are You? {Describing Game} with my preschoolers. They loved it and the bright colors of the graphics made it fun!

 
Last but not least, it was the first day of Spring/The Very Hungry Caterpillar Day! I pulled out my Spanish and English versions of the book. Some of my worksheet pages, my stickers, and die cuts. We had fun welcoming Spring in the Speech Room! 

Share what fun thing you did today! 

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SLP Spring Fever Blog Hop!

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Welcome to the SLP Spring Fever Blog Hop!
You will get the chance to win prizes and get freebies by touring 12 fantastic blogs!
Here is the lineup:
12. SLP for Me – guest posting on Figuratively Speeching SLP

12 WINNERS will receive a goodie basket of one Spring-themed activity from each participating blog owner/page owner in the blog hop. (12 activities total!)

1 GRAND PRIZE WINNER will receive the following in addition to the activities:

For information about the prize that I have contributed to the goodie basket:
 Hopping Down the Bunny Trail
Opposites, Prepositions, Game Board and more!
  
The rules of the contest are simple:
  • You must decode a secret message. 
  • In order to complete this task, you will need to visit each of the 12 blogs and download a freebie. 
  • The freebie will contain a word that is part of the code. 
  • When you enter the contest through Giveaway Tools on Figuratively Speeching SLP's blog, you will be asked to type in the secret code. Have fun and enjoy blog hopping with us! The contest will run from Sunday, March 17, 2013 through Saturday, March 23, 2013.

FREEBIE to find my secret word download:  
Snail Sentence Repetition!

Sentence Repetition Tasks are a great skills to practice! Sentence repetition skills are closely tied to expressive language abilities. Full version of this activity will be out this week! Check back soon!

To hop on over to the next blog click on the frog!
Enjoy reading through the blogs, downloading the freebies, and participating in our Blog Hop! Good luck everyone!

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It's Your Lucky Day!

Saturday, March 16, 2013

PLUS A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TOMORROW AFTERNOON!

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WH-Whale Questions {Who, What, Where, When, Why, & How}

Monday, March 11, 2013

Do your students know how to ASK and ANSWER WH questions? 
Do they need more practice? 
This is a comprehensive WH- Question Pack that will target the following:

 Only $2.50--Click the image to go to my Teachers Pay Teachers store!

Targets: receptive/expressive language, WH- Questions
 (Who, What, Where, When, Why, How)


Ages: 6+

 Includes: 39 pages (not all pages shown on the thumbnail it wouldn't fit!)=
Page 1 title, Page 2 Information
WH Definition Pages (Pages 3-8)= 6 pages, each defines a WH question (Who, What, Where, When, Why, How).
WH Definition Matching Cards (pages 9-10)=Use these cards to have students match the WH question to what it asks.
WH Question Cards (pages 11-34)= Open and Close-Ended Questions= 24 Who, 24 What, 24 Where, 24 When, 24 Why, 24 How cards= 144 cards total
WH Quiz (page 35)= students draw a line from the WH question to it’s meaning. Then must pick two WH words and formulate their own questions.
WH Question Die (page 36)= use this WH Question Die alone to have students formulate questions, and then practice answering their own questions. Use WH Question Cards, Whale Generic Game Board and WH Question Die together to play a game!
Whale Generic Game Board (page 37) = use this in conjunction with WH question Cards, die or any other skill you want to target.
Page 38 terms of use, Page 39 credits page.



Enjoy and let me know what you think of my new product!

Just for fun I will be giving away a copy of my WH Whale Questions!
Raffle ends Friday March 15th at 8pm!
a Rafflecopter giveaway

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CSHA Convention NEW Material Review Part 1

Saturday, March 9, 2013

I seriously enjoy attending the California Speech-Language, Hearing, Association (CSHA) convention every year. I get re-inspired every time I attend and I remember all the reasons why I love our field. I like it even better when companies provide discounts at the convention! Hello new materials!

Thanks to my Teachers Pay Teachers store, I do not feel so guilty buying products anymore! 
I plan on reviewing everything I got AND I made some new friends that may help me with app reviews! 
1) English For Beginners Flashcards- Usborne Books product, Price $9.99 
  • Over 200 words! They are double sided and have great colorful pictures for early vocabulary development.
  • Just look at the clothing pictures; if you flip them over there are more clothing items. 
  • Includes: transportation, places, weather, family, body parts, food, common household items and more! I can already tell I am going to be using these often.
  • Uses: labeling, categorizing, sentence building, matching, opposites
2) You are a Social Detective- Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke, Price, $20.00
  • Where do I start? Pamela Crooke was a assessment supervisor at my university back in 2008 and we had the pleasure of sitting with Pam and Michelle on our flight to Lousiana. Michelle is a GREAT speaker, if you ever get the chance to see her, do it! 
  • Michelle's seminars are usually totally packed, get there early!
  • Social Thinking will blow your mind, and her perspectives/tips/tricks will help greatly with students with pragmatic deficits.
  • I have been waiting to buy this book for a while, it has received many, many awards. 
  • It is like having a big book of social stories. I love that it teaches our students to be "detectives" and search out what they are/are not supposed to be doing to become a social thinker! 
  • Gives students tools to figure out what to do in certain social situations. Examples: Listening with our eyes and our brains! (I could do a whole post just on Michelle's work!)
 
3) Kimochis- They have updated their website since I last visited. It's adorable! Prices vary depending on what you want! I bought a new pack of feelings for 11.99. 
  • I own Huggtopus, I have had her for a year and just love her! She is overly friendly and invades people's space. People get mad when she invades their space, then she is sad and confused. She has to learn that it is not the best thing to be hugging everyone all the time!
  • With my younger students with pragmatic needs this is a great tool for role playing and perspective taking. 
  • Let's just take a look at how cute she is!  

 4)  Usborne Phonics Readers-Ted and Friends- Price $19.99
  • Great way to target specific phonemes and phonic patterns!
  • Includes 12 books that target specific word families 
  • Also includes a CD that will read the stories aloud! 
  • I took a picture of a Frog on a Log! Great for /fr/ blends, final /g/, and there are 12 stories like this.
  • The pages fold out, which was hard to take a picture of. 
  • There is also a hidden duck on each page of this BIG book of stories, practice prepositions. Where is the duck? 
More reviews to come!

*NOTE: I receive NO compensation for these reviews and I am not affiliated with these companies in any way. I bought these products with my own money, love them and wanted to share the reasons why with all of you!  

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Celebration Sale!

Thursday, March 7, 2013

My Teachers pay Teachers store has been open 1 month! 

Starting March 9-10 ALL my products will by 15% off. A big thanks to all of you who have purchased and used my products, who have followed me on Facebook and read my blog! Enjoy the full two days of the SALE!

I will be at the California Speech-Language and Hearing Association Convention for the next four days. Look for more new products soon!

To show you how much I love your support, I am GIVING AWAY a copy of my SHAMROCK SEMANTICS! Raffle ends Sunday night 8pm pacific! a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Who Are You? Animal and Insect Edition

Sunday, March 3, 2013

New Product! CURRENTLY FREE UNTIL 8:00 PM MARCH 4th! Thank you for all the likes!
Now how fast can we get to 300? I will offer another freebie! Like  my facebook page

 Who Are You? A fun guessing game targeting receptive language, expressive language and semantics! 

 

 Targets: receptive language, expressive language, and semantics!

All graphics property of mycutegraphics.com

Ages: 3+

Includes: 22 pages (not all pages shown on the thumbnail it wouldn't fit!)=
Page 1 title, Page 2 Information
Receptive Language skills (pages 3-6)= 20 animal cards. SLP or students may lead (you decide), Use the green animal cards to target receptive language! Read each clue to students and wait. See how many clues it takes for them to guess the animal!
Expressive Language and Semantics (pages7-14): use the pink and blue cards to have students come up with descriptions and lead the game themselves. Have students think of a word for each category and let the group guess. This will expand students descriptive vocabulary skills
Bingo Cards (pages15-19): use the receptive/expressive/semantics cards to play bingo!
Descriptive Mat (page 20) :To practice how to describe the animal as a group, place a pink animal card in the middle, as a group talk about the features of that animal! 



Multiple ways to play! SLP lead with green cards, student lead with blue cards, or work at as a group with pink cards and the descriptive mat!

 

Include 5 different BINGO cards! 
 


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