Summer Vacation...

Ah... It's been 3 days of vacation, and I'm thinking...I'm not ready to start Summer Speech Services!!  Luckily I also have next week off, but I don't know if I'm ready to go back to work.  I was at the school Monday for a meeting, and looking up some things for summer services.  I stumbled upon this website:
www.1plus1plus1equals1.net and found these great free downloads!!  They are easy readers that you can download on ibooks on the iPad, that way this summer, while I'm traveling around from house to house, I'll have a bunch of books with me to use.  Here is the link for the Easy readers: http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net/tag/easy-readers/ 
I'm getting kind of excited to have a couple days out of the house this summer, but lounging around is definitely okay with me for now!  Have a great summer!

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-Mrs. Speech Teacher

Last Day...

As I sit and look at my empty speech room, I am a little sad. 

I was here a couple days a week for 2 years, but now they have hired their own SLP.  I'm okay with it.  I can't wait to see how life will be next year when I am at one school 4 days, and another school (still unknown) for 1 day.  It will be interesting I'm sure, but I am SO READY for it! It just makes me a tiny bit sad that I am leaving behind a great office, and some great teachers, but a lot of the teachers that have made me feel welcome here are setting off for new adventures next year as well, and I'm sure our paths will meet again. 

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-Mrs. Speech Teacher

Last week of school...ALREADY?

I can't believe this is the last few days of school!  One of my schools gets out early Wednesday and one early on Thursday, then a few inservice days and WOW, it'll be over!  Treats for the last speech day are always tricky, but this is what I did this year:

Have a KOOL Summer!

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-Mrs. Speech Teacher

Mother's Day Flower...

I heard about this activity over at Speech Lady Liz: http://speechladyliz.blogspot.com/2012/05/end-of-week-slp-blues-mothers-day.html
 Who found it at: http://chocoholic-say-what.blogspot.com/2012/04/mothers-day-adjective-flower.html
It's a flower for mother's day!

 I had some different groups of kids for this activity.  In one group we had been working on adjectives, so we used adjectives about our moms to fill in the flower. 
In the second group we were working on articulating and repairing.  It's 2 little guys who are hard to understand, so we were working on speaking, and being about to repair the speech if the listener couldn't understand without getting frustrated.  It was so cute! Those little preschoolers were saying such AWESOME things about their moms, like "I plant flowers with she, she and me make a good team!", (so we also worked on some pronouns!!).  It was fun though, and pretty cute too! 

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-Mrs. Speech Teacher

Sundae Funday!

I got this idea for an articulation activity from Melissa over at "Today in First Grade." She came up with this idea for addition sundaes, so I tweaked it just a bit to work on articulation.  They are articulation Sundaes!  I had my younger kids use pictures of the target, along with the word, like in this sundae:

And I had my older kids do a word sort (attached at the bottom) and write the words on their ice cream scoops, like this:

The kids had fun making their sundaes and it was also an activity they could take home and read with their family.  Any activity that can also double as homework is good in my book!
Grab the documents here:

Dishing Up document: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4w6xrPI1D0vdFlKQTRId0wxZEk

R Word Sort: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4w6xrPI1D0vdW9JSW41M1RsQnc

S Word Sort: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4w6xrPI1D0vX0NxWTQ1bm1hbkU

Th word Sort: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4w6xrPI1D0va0NZWVN2T3dwVnc

V Words: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WUN8VJ9tVoFC1noa37vabUCo0mdgqKr3EVm57aTE2kA/edit

Finished Product: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4w6xrPI1D0vcmEzZ2dtdWloZEE

And don't forget to stop by Today In First Grade to look at the original! What good ideas she has!
http://todayinfirstgrade.blogspot.com/2012/03/iou-ice-cream-sundaes.html



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-Mrs. Speech Teacher

My name is...

Mrs. Speech Teacher, Right?  For any of you speechies out there, you may notice that kids often forget, if they ever learn, your name.  So for all of you, my name is Jenna, but you can call me Mae, (or Mrs. Speech Teacher), and I'm working as a Speech Technician while I am going to school to get my master's in Speech-Language Pathology.  This blog is for fun activities I learn about from all you other bloggers out there, come up with myself, or just use during therapy sessions.

For you to know a little background about me, I graduated with a bachelors in Elementary Education.  I have a masters in Elementary Education/Reading Specialist, and then took leveling courses to get into the SLP program.  I just finished up my first year of SLP last week, and BOY, does it feel good!  I live on a farm in Nebraska, with Mr. Farmer...my husband, Miss Punky, my 6-year old daughter and Mr. Tractor Man, my 2 year old son.  Life is pretty full right now, but blogging helps me relax, so I'm hoping this will help me!  I may at time throw in some things about my life, or my photography, so bear with me!

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-Mrs. Speech Teacher