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SPRING HAS ARRIVED!!  Well we think it has.. there is still snow on the ground, but I can see out of my classroom window, finally.  I came back from our Spring break rested, relaxed and ready to work for the next 11 weeks. 

This month we will be looking at our individual goals and taking lots of data.  I usually see a huge amount of progress from my students.   

We will be starting an Easter/spring unit for the next 2 months.  We will be learning vocabulary, do a bulletin board project, and read stories about Easter/Spring. We will find words with our sounds in them. We will be creating sentences to help with our expression.  We will continue to work on turn taking, asking/answering our friends, and visual (picture) thinking.  

Have you ever thought about using games at home to help with speech and language skills.  This month we are playing Go Fish!  

This simple game can help students with: turn taking, learning names, syntax (word order) listening, remembering, sequencing, grammar, vocabulary, and speech sounds, and math if using a regular deck of cards. We use pictures cards with our sounds on them.  Cards can be hard to hold for little hands.  We have long erasers or use card holders to help us. I think I bought them at the teacher store. We put a fishing pond in the center of the table and let the skills grow.  
If you would like a set of pictures cards, just let me know!



May will be coming quickly....so stay tuned.