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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! 

 

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MARCH

Its Reading Month! Webster school has been transformed into a Suessville for the month! We are celebrating Dr. Suess, reading, and writing. 

We will continue to use stories and books to work on vocabulary, grammar, sequencing, retelling, rhyming, reading, and of course those speech sounds! Here are a few of my favorite books that I will be reading this month. 

We always create a bulletin board, and this year we are making our "Cat in the Hats"!  They are writing down what they work on in speech therapy.  

                 

We have so many surprises this month the kids are excited! 

           

We started reading One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish..and of course we had to play "GO FISH" game!!  The kids always have fun and it helps carryover their speech sounds, use correct word order, grammar, taking turns, listen, store, and retrieve skills.  

**Spring Break is this month March 25-April 3rd. If you are traveling, please talk about places you are visiting, or model good speech sounds on your trip.  If you are staying home, read and talk and relax!! It is so important to talk and read with your children every day.

**Reminder there is a 1/2 day on Thursday, March 24th for students**

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FEBRUARY

February 2nd was Groundhogs Day! We read a few stories and made shadows in the classroom.  Of course we had a "prediction" question.

"Will the Groundhog see his shadow?" 

        Yes = 14        No = 11 

Do you know what the outcome was???  Ask your student, they should know. Let's just say, Hooray for an early spring!!!

The week of Feb. 8th-12th we will start 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!  Ask your child what the town people thought about it?!!  

We will continue the next week 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 26TH. Teachers will be in Professsional Development that day.  I personally will be attending the the Special Education conference and will be gone on Thursday, Feb. 25th as well.**

Next month we celebrate Reading Month!  It's always a lot of fun, and we do such fun lessons..... Stay Tuned for hints this month about our theme!!