June 1st is here and we have plenty to celebrate.  We finished up the year in speech therapy this past week.  We celebrated with decorate your own cupcakes and played Marble Mixer on the iPad.  All students brought their folders home and can use the papers in them for summer practice. Progress Reports will be sent home with their last report cards.

It has been an awesome year in Speech!  I watched my students grow, not only in their speech and language skills, but in maturity, and some of them in height!!   


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As most of you know, our Webster school will now be a dedicated Kindergarten center.  I will stay at Webster, while my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders will move to different buildings.  Their IEP's and services will not change, just the Speech Therapist and location.  I will miss my kids deeply, but will enjoy exploring language and speech with our littlest Eskymos. 
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Have a wonderful summer and if you need to reach me, please contact Webster Elementary at 786-6118. 

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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 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 29-June 1st**  

Inside the folders are papers they have collected all year.  They can use these to practice over the summer.  

Please check out the Summer Therapy section on my blog. There is a list of speech therapy programs for your child to be involved with. If you are interested in having your child continue speech and language therapy during the summer, please contact me as soon as possible!

Click HERE to learn how each summer month you can help your child with their speech and language skills. 

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APRIL

SPRING HAS ARRIVED!!  Well we think it has... The sun can stay, but the snow needs to go!!  I came back from our Spring break rested, relaxed and ready to work for the next 8 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.  We may even learn the cycle of plants, which goes great with our science units.  

Have you ever thought about using games at home to help with speech and language skills.  Play 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.