Taking Santa to the Salon

Have you seen the the free Christmas themed app from Toca Boca?  What a fun way to get into the spirit of the season and work on language skills at the same time. Don't have the app yet?  Check it out here!
Here are some of my ideas for using the app in therapy.

Describing:
- have the student make up a sentence describing each thing they do to Santa.
- have the student use concept cards (free download) to help describe what is being done to Santa for those kids who need a little extra help generating a sentence.
-Have the student describe how Santa is feeling at each stage of the makeover (emotion cards included in the download) 

Following Directions
- Give the student specific directions as to what they should do to Santa. The student has to follow your directions precisely.
 *****If you are crazy lucky to have two iPads you could even have the students use the app for a barrier activity.  
- Have the student give you directions as to what you should do to Santa.

 Sequencing
-Give the student single or multiple step directions and have them carry them out.
- Have the the student do 2 or 3 things to Santa and then tell you what they did in order.

Choose from two characters

Get to work on Santa's makeover

Check out my TPT site for the full 7 page download

Free download here

My favorite Speecher Teachers Pay Teacher pages (so far)

 So my last post talked a little about my new love, Teachers Pay Teachers.  I have downloaded an insane amount of new materials this week!  Some that I cut up and used within the hour!  Too bad my school is out of laminator film and can't afford more till next month. :(  

Anyway, I thought I would share a few of my favorites that I have found so far.  Some of them I heard of from other bloggers, others I found on my own.  I'm sure there are lots of other great ones that I haven't found yet so if you know of more, leave them in the comments below.  

So here are the ones I like so far, in no particular order.  Check them out and follow them if you like their stuff.
Dean Trout
Whitneyslp
SLPinGA
Dawn Belacic
Lisa Goodell
Heather Bates
PrAACtical AAC
Activity Tailor
SLP Gone Wild
Jenna Rayburn
Kristine Lamb
and of course.... don't' forget me, Heather Strebel!

Let's talk turkey Freebie

I created this activity called Let's Talk Turkey to work on describing with attributes and comparing/contrasting.  I have posted the whole download(17 full color pages) on my Teachers Pay Teachers page.  If you aren't familiar with TPT yet, you are missing out!   There are a ton of really great products created by teachers, speech therapists and special educators just like us!  There are lots of free downloads as well as affordable items to purchase. Plus you can download and use them immediately!

Click on the widget below to go directly to my TPT store and get this download!

Toca Hair Salon and Story Pals | The Spectronics Blog

I had to share this awesome blog post from Amanda Hartmann at Spectronics.  She features one of my favorite apps, Toca Hair Salon along with the an app I was not familiar with,  Story Pals.   I guess I will be making an app request for Story Pals soon!   I love her idea of using the two apps together and I had tons of ideas of how to make these two apps work well with my students. Take a look and see what inspires you!

Practical App Ideas – Featuring: Toca Hair Salon and Story Pals | The Spectronics Blog


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Multiple Meaning Bingo

One of my favorite things to work on in speech therapy is multiple meaning words.  I created this bingo game and multiple meaning cards with Boardmaker and  I want to share it with all of you.  You can download the entire pdf file from my Teachers Pay Teachers page with the link below.  There are four different boards and two pages of the teaching cards (also can be used for "calling" in the bingo game) I hope you enjoy it.

Download this file at my TPT site!

STICK to simple

So this is a silly little post about a common product that works great for me in therapy. You know how you have some of those cards that are multiple choice and you really want the kids to be able to generate their own answer? Well I used to use regular post-it's to try and cover up the answer but found that the kids can see through them and they don't stay stuck to well. This year I bought some post-it labels at my local discount store. These ate a thicker colored paper and the entire back of the post it is sticky. One post-it label will make it through a whole session of repositioning it on each card. I know it is a silly thing to post about but I was so giddy about how well this worked for me, I thought I would share.

post-it labels work great!