END OF THE YEAR REMINDERS: 

*Speech Progress reports will go home with the report cards

*Speech folders are coming home this week! 

*Don't forget about  summer.  Just like reading, writing, and math, speech skills need practice too!  Please check out my Summer therapy tab on this blog.  It gives you therapy options, as well as some simple ideas you can do at home 

*If you have questions, concerns or need more information,  I can always be reached by my email:   emarlett@eskymos.com 

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MAY

HERE WE GO!!! Our final full month of speech therapy.  As usual, I attend a lot of meetings out of my buildings to get ready for next year.  Kids are going on lots of field trips, and Spring programs will be starting.  It is a busy month. 

This month we will spend time reviewing what we have accomplished in speech this year. We will be talking about the goals they worked on.  Progress reports will go home with report cards. 

 **Speech Folders will start to come home the week of May 23-27**  

It's Speech Party Time!!!  Decorate your own cupcakes, and Marble Monsters game all week long!! Every year we celebrate our speech class with a well deserved party! I am so proud of all of my students and their progress this year. 

Inside your child's speech folder are papers they have collected all year.  They can use these to practice over the summer.  There may be a few calendars to help with carryover summer speech skills.  

Summer Speech Therapy can be an option!!  Please click the link on my blog page "summer speech" for all the latest information.  

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APRIL

SPRING HAS ARRIVED!! So happy to see the snow melt away.  Not so happy about the rain.  But our plants and grass will need it.  I came back from our Spring break rested, relaxed and ready to work for the next 9 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 a spring unit this month.  We will be using spring vocabulary, do a bulletin board project, and read stories about Spring. We will find words with our sounds in them. We will be creating sentences to help with our expression and grammar. 

Our Bulletin Board "Speech Garden" turned out great!  It is not often that we get to color in speech, so the kids really liked this activity.  They were so creative in their coloring, and it was a great opportunity to have fun spontaneous conversations.  Of course it was a good opportunity for me to listen and see if they are carrying over their skills too!