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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. It is a busy month. 

This month we will spend time talking about spring, flowers, bugs, and weather.  We will be reading stories to get our vocabulary and speech sounds just perfect. Progress reports will go home with report cards. 

 **Speech Folders will start to come home the week of May 28-31**  

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

**Don't forget about Summer speech therapy!!  Follow my link on my page to learn more about opportunities for your student to keep up their speech skills!**

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APRIL

SPRING HAS ARRIVED!!  Well we think it has.. there is still snow on the ground, but I can see out of my classroom window, finally.  I came back from our Spring break rested, relaxed and ready to work for the next 11 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 an Easter/spring unit for the next 2 months.  We will be learning vocabulary, do a bulletin board project, and read stories about Easter/Spring. We will find words with our sounds in them. We will be creating sentences to help with our expression.  We will continue to work on turn taking, asking/answering our friends, and visual (picture) thinking.  

Have you ever thought about using games at home to help with speech and language skills.  This month we are playing 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 "Superheroes" theme.  All of our doors are decorated as well as our school.  Stop in and take a look! 





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

"This just in"...........I ordered some fun Superhero books to share with the kids! 

Spring break  (March 25-29) 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 and talk and relax!! It is so important to talk and read with your children every day.