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 JANUARY

WELCOME BACK!!! It certainly was a nice break.  I hope you all came back refreshed and ready to work!

This month we will be talking about WINTER...brrrrrr.  We will be targeting vocabulary and speech sounds that talk about the season.

Students will be playing snow games, and will continue working on their goals!  It is almost report card time, so I will be working on those progress reports this week.

We read The Biggest, Best Snowman by Margery Cuyler.  This book targeted our skills for sequencing, recall, and social language.  We paired it with a snowman listening worksheet and learned basic concepts for "widest/narrowest" "first, second, third" and first, middle, end".  

Next up, let the Marshmallow games begin! Ask your kids about this! We may get to hot cocoa by the end of January.

We traced our hands to create our classroom snowman!! He's adorable, and I love seeing all the kids hands up on the bulletin board.

When we use books in therapy, we transform them into lessons.  We can learn new vocabulary, strengthen our listening and attention skills, and we can work on answering those "wh" questions about what we heard.  There are always ways to get our speech sound practice in also.

If you want to do this at home, and need help, just ask me!  I can help make up the vocabulary list, talk about ways to improve your child's phonemic awareness skills with sounds/rhyme/letters. I can help you develop those "wh" questions. Besides all this, enjoy reading with your children!!  They love to listen to stories and what a great time to spend with them.

**FLASHCARDS!!!! I love to use flashcards.  I like students to make their own.  I encourage them to use cards as a way to study and practice.  I have tried different websites to create them, and this site is my favorite!  Click HERE to be directed to a link that will let you make cards and save them as a file to your computer! ** 

Stay warm this month!