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NOVEMBER

This month we are going to be talking about Thanksgiving!  I have planned to read a few stories, make a few turkeys, and enrich the kids lives with fun facts! 

See the updated "poll results" below!!



Books we are reading this month: 

Who Will Carve the Turkey This Thanksgiving? by Jerry Pallotta
The Great Turkey Race by:  Steve Metzger
10 Fat Turkeys by:  Tony Johnston
Pete the Cat The First Thanksgiving by Kimberly and James Dean 



Skills we are targeting this month are sequencing, categories, vocabulary, and recall and retell.  We always find ways to get our good speech sounds into our sessions.  


We have another "poll"!!  In talking about turkey, traditions, food, some of the kids started to tell me that they don't eat turkey!  So I wrote the question on the board:  

           Do You Eat Turkey??  Yes or No.. 
        YES = 22          NO = 4


Also we will take a "poll" for who likes pumpkin pie!?  

           Do You Like Pumpkin Pie??   Yes or No........

                    YES= 18         NO=  8

I was so happy to see most of my students enjoy eating Turkey and Pumpkin Pie.  This is one of my favorite meals!!!     

DON'T FORGET ABOUT PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES:  PROGRESS REPORTS WILL BE SENT HOME WITH THE REPORT CARDS!

              WEDNESDAY NOV. 9TH 
              THURSDAY, NOV. 10TH  
              FRIDAY, NOV. 11TH 

We have a few 1/2 days on Thursday Nov. 10th and Friday Nov. 11th. 

Thanksgiving break:   Wed. 11/23-25 - 
                         NO SCHOOL  

A few fun ideas to keep your kids busy during the holiday gathering:  

*Write out the word Thanksgiving Dinner - see how many words you can make using these letters. 

*Have the kids make placemats.  Use a piece of paper and have them draw pictures of Thanksgiving, or something they are thankful for.    

*Talk about Thanksgiving traditions your family might have. Maybe your kid has a new tradition they would like to try?!

*Take lots of pictures and make a scrapbook so your child can use their memory, recall, sequencing, and retelling skills. 

Still looking for more things to do? Click HERE to get some great coloring and activity pages! 

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OCTOBER

October has arrived and we are celebrating my favorite time of the year FALL!!!!! 

This month we will explore a different theme each week: We read stories, have worksheets, and spooky speech words.  We learn new vocabulary, put them in sentences, draw pictures and talk about same/different.   We are carrying over their skills in the classroom with Unlocking the Code and using our lip, tongue and throat poppers. We are also talking about vowel sounds.   

October 3-7 -  All About Fall

October 10-14 -  All About Pumpkins

October 17-21 - All About Ghosts

October 24-28 - All About Halloween

We have finally gotten into the swing of school, and speech therapy classes! The students are working hard to get a smiley stamp each time they attend speech, do their best work, and follow the rules.  Some of the kids are getting a chance to dig through the prize box!  So much fun... 

Some months we make a project for the bulletin board.   We found that some of our speech sounds were in those FALL words!   We even talked about the leaves changing colors and decorated leaves for the board.   

We took a "poll", which means we asked all the kids a question... 

Have you carved your pumpkin yet?     

                           YES = 16          NO = 21

It looks like I am ready for school! My Webster classroom is cleaned, restocked, and the bulletin board is up! Stop by Webster Open House on Wednesday, August 31st from 6pm-7pm, find your name and pick out a folder.  You will get a free "stamp" just for saying hello!