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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. 

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MARCH

Happy Reading Month!  We are starting our celebration with our "Dive into a Good Book" theme. Anything ocean, beach, sun, is a good thing!  All of our doors are decorated as well as our school.  Stop in and take a look! 

This month we are reading stories about sea creatures and we made fish for our bulletin board. The students were very creative with their fish.  Some of the kids have never been fishing...we might have to do some "fishing" in speech this month!

We continue to use stories and books to work on vocabulary, grammar, sequencing, retelling, and of course those speech sounds.  

Here are a few of my favorite books that I read each

week to the kids. You can probably find these books at our local library to read again. Or find some new ones that might be your child's favorite. 

Spring break  (March 26-April 2) is right around the corner.  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, play, talk, and relax!! It is so important to talk and read with your children every day.  

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FEBRUARY

Where is the time going??!! Groundhogs day came and went so quickly, we didn't even get to "predict" about his shadow! Lots of the kids know that he SAW his shadow.  Ugh, 6 more weeks of winter... I sure hope we can get through it!

The week of Feb. 12th-16th we will start our Valentine unit.  Targeted areas will be vocabulary, syntax, grammar, 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?!!  

The week of the 19th-21st we will celebrate our Presidents! Board games, bingo games, and of course talking about money!

DON'T FORGET WE DON'T HAVE SCHOOL ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD. Teachers will be in Professional Development that day.  I personally will be attending the Special Education conference and will be gone on Thursday, Feb. 26th as well.

**Report Cards will be going out toward the end of this month, so I will be sending home progress reports for your students!  Please feel free to call me at Webster 786-6118 with questions or concerns.  I have started seeing progress in almost all of my students.  Great News!**

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.....