International Children's Day

June 1st is International Children's Day and what better way to end the year than by having a day to celebrate children!  The World Conference for the Well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland, announced June 1 as International Children's Day in 1925. There are usually speeches on children's rights and wellbeing, and other events involving or dedicated to children on this day.  So celebrate your children this Sunday in some special way. They truly deserve it!

Summer Programs

If any of you were here last year, you know that I offered speech and language packets to work on throughout the summer.  This year, I am going to do things a little different.  I will provide wordlists of your child's sounds for the articulation calendars (if you request these lists), but the calendars for articulation and language activities will all be listed below.  No paper copies will be sent home this year.  I have included a PDF version, so it should be very easy to print one off each month.  This way I am able to offer a variety of packets, and you as parents can chose the packet that best fits your child's developmental level or interests.  I have also included some general ideas/activities you can just quickly look over and choose from.  

• June Summer Language Calendars:

Nonverbal PDF

Verbal PDF

• July Summer Language Calendars:

Nonverbal PDF

Verbal PDF

• August Summer Language Calendar:

Nonverbal PDF

Note: First Day of School for Elementary is actually August 20th!

Verbal PDF

• June Summer Articulation Calendar (be sure to keep the sound collage mentioned on the 10th for practice all throughout the summer). 

PDF

• July Summer Articulation Calendar 

PDF

• August Summer Articulation Calendar:

PDF

• Nonverbal Children: Summer Language Stimulation 
• Verbal Children: Summer Language Stimulation
• Speech & Language Activities for Each Day of the Week: Six Weeks of Summer
• Speech & Language worksheets: Summer Speech-Language Activities
• Toddler-Pre-k Activities: Summertime Speech & Language Activities
• More Toddler-Pre-k Activities: Top 10 Summer Activities 
• Activities to Maintain Skills Over the Summer: Handy Handout
• Summer Activities for Language: 5 Super-Cool Speech & Language Activities 
• *Natural Ways to Work on Speech: Encouraging Speech Development in Children 
• 5-tips to Make it Through Summer Speech & Language Practice: Heather's Speech Therapy

Enjoy your summer break! 

Better Hearing and Speech Month

Songtree

With end of year madness, we will be doing our Songtree for Large Group next week.  This includes singing lots of fun songs,  specifically including one of our latest favorites, "London Bridge Is Falling Down," nursery rhymes, and chants.  We will focus on pronouns, keeping a beat, doing the actions, and phonemic awareness.  There will be no learning card or weekly handout for this week. 

Next Year Changes

Some of you may have already heard, but if not I wanted to let you all know that next year I will not be coming back to Willow Springs.  :(  My husband has accepted a position in Seattle, so we will be moving up there this summer.  It has been fun these last 2 years, and I am so sad to leave all the students who will be returning next year.  I plan to keep this blog though, so feel free to check back often for handouts and information related to speech and language development.  I wish you all the best, and hope that you keep in touch. I love hearing from past students about their wonderful progress!  :)

Better Hearing and Speech Month

Mr. Potato Re-visited

Next week for Large Group we will be doing Mr. Potato Head again.  The students LOVED this one and got a kick out of putting his body parts on.  If you would like to read more about it, check out this post.  There will not be a learning card for this Large Group sent out this time.  Just refer to the one listed in the original post, or if you happen to still have the paper copy.