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FEBRUARY

Where is the time going??!! This weather is making me a little stir crazy.  Hopefully we can get back into the swing of things and work hard until Spring Break!





We missed the actual Groundhogs day because it was on Saturday.  Do you know if the groundhog saw his shadow?  Hint... it will be an early spring!








This month we will begin our Valentine unit.  Targeted areas will be vocabulary, traditions, speech sounds and reading a few books.

***Of course I have a game with "chocolate"!!****

We will read the book Love, Ruby Valentine by Laurie Friedman.  Ruby is a busy little girl, who realizes she slept through Valentines Day!  

We will be talking about our Presidents and celebrating them with board games, bingo games, and of course talking about money!

DON'T FORGET WE DON'T HAVE SCHOOL ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22TH. Teachers will be in Professional Development that day.  I personally will be attending the the Special Education conference and will be gone on Thursday, Feb. 21st as well.

SNEAK PEEK!!!!  Next month we celebrate Reading Month!  It's always a lot of fun, and we do such fun lessons..... just a "hint" as to the theme this year.....

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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! 

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

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

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! ** 

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DECEMBER

     **Christmas break is Dec. 21-Jan.4.  Come back to school on Monday Jan. 7th.  

How did we make it to the Christmas season...again??!!!  Students have been making ornaments to decorate the speech tree.  We are coloring candy canes, elves, and of course reading some of my favorite books!

December words we have been talking about: 

Santa, Stocking, Sleigh, Decorations, Ornament, Wreath, Reindeer, Candle, present, glistening, joyous, Elf, poinsettia, holly berries, Eve

All the kids are starting to make progress that I can hear and see!  We are working on beginning sounds of words and a few rhymes too!  Some of the kids are starting to read words too!  How exciting.

  

Just a few of the books we have been reading this month!

**Click HERE for some fun activities to do during the holidays!

**and even MORE websites to have Christmas fun!

I will be talking to my students about a neat website to watch Santa's Reindeer!  Click HERE to see it.  I think Santa shows up at 11am, 6pm and 9pm. We leave it on the computer all day to see the antics those reindeer cause.  This year I saw "The Grinch" steal a stocking and a wreath, while Santa was reading some mail!!  So exciting to share and watch as a family.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of my students and their families. Have a great winter break!!