What's Shakin' Bacon?

I start my therapy groups bright and early at 7:50am each day. I am usually sipping my coffee during the first two sessions. Just for fun, I designed this breakfast themed game board and cards for my early morning groups. I liked it so much that I didn't want to put it away and ended up using it for all of my groups (anytime is a good time for bacon, right?!). 

The great thing about the bacon board is that is can be used with any learning target - I just pulled out different artic/vocab cards for each group. Download the board and cards for free at my TPT store here.

Enjoy!

I Mustache You a Question...

It is standardized testing week at my school and my students needed something fun and silly to do after spending all morning taking the test (me too since I spent all morning administering it!).

I have several students working on conversational turn taking and topic maintenance. I also have a group of students that are working on their sounds in connected speech so I figured a conversation activity would be best.


I found some mustache tape and stick-on mustaches this weekend and made some conversation starter cards using a mustache template.

If you "mustache", it has been a hit so far. The kids loved seeing me wearing a mustache. We may have done more laughing than talking.

To make this activity yourself, simply pick up some mustache tape at Target, some sticky mustaches (I got mine at Old Navy for $2/pack), and download the free conversation starters at my TPT store. I wrappd an old Play Dough container with the tape and it was the perfect size to hold the cards!

Practically Sharing: Guest Blog Post!

Alexis from Practically Speeching invited me to participate in her fantastic Practically Sharing segment.  I got to write a guest blog post about how I am modifying materials to keep students engaged and interested in therapy these last few weeks of school. Check it out here! 

Also check out my latest freebie in my TPT store - a Super Mario inspired game! 

The Best Nest

Last year I found little chicks on clearance at Michael's and stocked up. I stuffed them into my craft drawer and forgot about them until this week when I discovered them hiding under some tissue paper. Just in time for Easter!

I thought about putting them into plastic eggs and coming up with some kind of game, but ultimately decided that they needed nests. I read The Best Nest to my kindergarten and 1st grade groups and had them follow directions to make little nests out of construction paper, tissue paper, and brown markers/crayons. I just love spring crafts!

Egg-cellent Speech Game

I had tons of plastic eggs at my house so I made an easy do-with-every-group game out of them. I sorted the eggs and assigned a speech sound/skill to each color. I stuffed the eggs with words/directions and bam! Done! I used this activity with every group, grades K-5 for the whole day and everyone loved it.

I had originally planned on surprising students by filling some of the eggs with jellybeans. This caused them to shake each egg wildly before opening it. Jellybeans went flying. I hid the jellybeans after then first session.

This turned out to be super fun (flying jelly beans and all) and was so easy!!

Easter Egg Artic Books

I had my artic groups do drills with flashcards last week as I collected last minute data for progress reports, so this week I am making it up to them by doing some crafts. I have a very crafty group this year -- whenever they walk in and see art supplies on the table they get excited. They love coloring. They love glitter. They love paint. Pretty much anything that is going to require me to stay late at work and clean up will make my students happy, ha! So, we are making mini-books with artic practice words in them - Easter themed of course. 

This is a super quick and easy activity - grab it for free at my TPT store here. Not much longer until spring break!

Don't Put All of Your Eggs in One Basket! Easter Idioms!!

I have been working on figurative language with my 3rd-5th grade students. With Easter being just around the corner, I created an Easter basket idiom match up! Grab it (for free of course!)at my TPT store here.

Included are 24 idioms. Simply print, cut, laminate, and enjoy!