April Fool's SLP resources!

Why is everyone so tired on April 1st? 

Because they've just finished a long March!

But fear not SLPs and be all set to bring on the fooling with these fun activities. 

April Fools' Absurdities by SLP Runner

April Foolish- by Sparkle SLP 

April Fool's Articulation by Teach Speech 365

April Fools- A social language packet on humor and jokes by Smartmouth SLP

April Fool's Cause and Effect and Perspective by Speech Snacks

Socially Smart Pranks by Speech Paths

Don't forget to get your prank on. Choose from these Top Favorite April Fool's Day Tricks.  

S-peachy Feedback linky party!

Yay, S-peachy feedback is back.  Thanks Nicole Allison from Speech Peeps for hosting the party and giving us a chance to highlight some great feedback from the recent sale.

Multi-Syllabic All Star

Thank you Annie, I appreciate your kind feedback, fun attitude, and your continued support!   Email me at: jenng12slp@gmail.com with a product you would like from my store.

Head on back to Allison's Speech Peeps for more S-peachy Feedback 

What's in your Cart - linky party

Thank you Speech Room News for hosting another What's in Your Cart linky party.  Definitely check out Jenna's store which is filled with high quality products. 

My SLP Runner store will be 20% off including already reduced bundles!!!!  Use the upcoming Code: ThankYou for the full 28% off! I also have a couple of new products I would like to tell you about.  

I'm thrilled to present to you Sasquatch Watch for UPPER GRADES.  The vocabulary is higher level as are the fun inferencing questions.  I may be a little bias, but I think this is a must-have and can tell you that my students have really had a blast playing it all week!  

My Multi-Syllablic Basketball product has a new partner!  Multi-Syllabic All-Star combines a fun sports-theme with apraxia work.  3-4 syllable higher level words are great for the UPPER GRADE students who struggle with pacing and fluent speech.  

I've completed my Year Full of Figurative Language Bundle.  This is a great deal at 20% off full price with another 28% off with the code: Thank You

Here's a sneak peek at what's in my cart:

Secret Messages for Main Idea is a unique product with an array of great main idea questions and fun secret messages to motivate students. 

Apraxia Tx for Later Sounds-  I'm so happy to find another apraxia product that's appropriate for older students.

Mustache Monsters I'm excited to get my hands on these adorable monsters to help with context cues and summarizing.  

I hope you have as much fun shopping and I will.  Head on over to Speech Room News to see what the other SLP blogger are buying.  

Earth Day Ideas

This is an Earth Day middle school project lead by our special educators.  

Hey all,  I was trying to complete a freebie for you but just couldn't seem to get it all together during this crazy time of year.  Instead I'll share with you how I'm celebrating Earth Day with my students.

                                                                      I'm so proud to be a part of a school that values recycling.

1. Outside: We are taking services outside to green up.

a.  EET students will be donning the medical gloves to pick up trash and describe their finds.

b.  Social skills groups will learn how to add some mindfulness strategies to their bag of tools by using sense meditation.  Students will experience the sense of walking, sounds of nature, and feeling of the outdoors.

c.  Articulation students will search for their sound in the great outdoors.

2.  Touring the Building: I work at an amazing school that focuses on reducing, reusing, and recycling.   We have a full composting program which has tremendously reduced our landfill contribution.  You won't see more than one bag of garbage each day in our cafeteria which serves almost 400 students!  We also have filtered water fountains throughout our school.  Students are encouraged to bring their own reusable water bottles to school to fill up.   My students will tour the building in search of ways that our school celebrates Earth Day every day, and they will sequence their thoughts and language by writing a paragraph about their finds.

3.  Figurative Language:  You know I'm all about the themed idioms!  Here are 10 idioms that I plan to teach that pair nicely with Earth Day: 1. Down to Earth 2. World of Difference 3. Out of this World 4. Tree Hugger 5. Green Thumb 6. Call of Nature 7. Salt of the Earth 8. Heaven on Earth 9. Where on Earth 10. Earth Shattering.

Top 3 April Fool's Pranks

My top 3 April Fool's Pranks 

Countdown!

3.  Trick 'em with food! Ask your students if they want some ice cream.  They say yes: you scream!  Well that wasn't nice so share some brownies.  Check out Teaching In The Tongass Freebie:

2.  Post a "Please Use Other Door" sign on your office door.  Obviously this will only work if you have one door like me.  I am excited to peek out my door to see staff and students pause at my door.  Grab your free sign HERE.

1.  Challenge your students to an eye-hand coordination test.  You'll need a quarter, pencil, and paper for this trick.  Ask your students to firmly trace a quarter with a pencil to make a circle on the page.  Students need to roll the quarter down their face from their forehead to chin and try to drop the quarter in the circle.  Wait until your students look up to see everyone's face covered in pencil marks, including their own!

Here's my good sport daughter who agreed to let me post this pix.  In turn I had to agree to help her trick her sisters on Wednesday.

I'm a sucker for holiday and seasonal idioms.  Here's a list of April Fool's Idioms that I'll post on my board and review.

• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
• A fool and his money are soon parted.
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
• A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.
• Fool’s paradise or Fool's gold.

Check out my post from last year HERE for another idea with a freebie.  

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Life's a Beach ~Cabin Fever Freebie!

It's cabin fever week at my school and I went all out with my speech room luau!  Complete with  Hawaiian music, island food and festive decor, my office made quite the splash.  It was a treat to see the reactions of my students as they showed up for their sessions!

I found pomegranate coconut juice and offered healthy snacks of pineapple and watermelon.  Many of my kids tried the fruits for the first time and even ventured out to sample the macaroons.

Beach balls were bouncing, shades and leis were donned, but no current party would be compete without photo props.

I contacted Linda from Love the Day and she gave me permission to share her way cool Photo Booth props.  I look forward to sharing my students' pix with their parents at our open house this week.

Summer Photo Booth Props

Students worked on summertime games and activities while relaxing in their lounge chairs.  

Summertime Products

It's funny how mixing it up a bit can really cheer everyone up and help with the hum-drum of the same ol'.  If you're sick of feeling stir crazy with cabin fever shake it up with a luau!

Time for the FREEBIE!  If you haven't tried language logic tasks with your students, you're in for a treat.  I made a cabin fever themed logic puzzle for you to enjoy.  

Cabin Fever Freebie!

What's in Your TpT Cart Linky Party.

Thanks Speech Room News for putting together this linky party for the BIG Spring Sale!  

Speaking of Speech Room News, Jenna's store is exploding with Interactive Vocabulary Books which are perfect for preschool-1st graders or use them for your life skills learners with language needs.  Check them out HERE

My SLP Runner store will be 28% off, including already reduced BUNDLES! with the code: HEROES!  

I would like to highlight some of my Spring products that include data charting pages and fun activities to see your students bloom with progress! 

My Spring Figurative Language product has multiple meaning words, idioms, personification, similes, and metaphors.  It includes at least two activities for each area as well as black/white printables for easy prep.  Data tracking forms are included for baseline and progress charting.  

The skill of describing is so important in all modes of expressive language.  Dazzling Daisies is able to be used with Sara Smith's EET and comes with bulletin board daisies, printable daisies, cuing daisies, and describing data may be collected in oral and written forms. 

 

My highly rated negation product was recently updated to add data pages as well.  Which one Doesn't Belong? 

Here's what's in my cart! 

I'm going to be all set with these awesome March products from some of my favorite stores!  

 Gotcha Leprechaun Basic Concepts by The Dabbling Speechie

Mystery Pictures from Gold Country SLP

All Ya' All Need Shamrock Spatial Concepts

Have fun shopping for spring and don't forget to add the code: HEROES Head on back to Speech Room News for the linky party! 

For the Love of SPEECH Blog Hop! Freebie!

A big thank you to The Speech Owl and Speech to the Core for organizing this lovely blog hop.    

 Social Valentine includes: emotional hearts, more carnation feelings, and perspective taking activities is 20% off this week ONLY!

If you're looking for more upper grade materials for the holiday, check out my NEW product Box of Chocolates Figurative Language: 

I hope you enjoy my middle school materials and have a happy month of February!  

Calendar Activities of Language Bundle and June FREEBIE!

* Update 9/14/14: Data tracking pages have been added to the bundle in order to track your students' month-to-month progress!   You may grab the progress charts HERE or re-download from teacherspayteachers.  Even if you don't have the entire bundle, these pages will help you keep tabs on the progress from the months that you do have.  Enjoy!

I'm excited to share with you a Year Full of Calendars for Language!  This HUGE bundle has been a year in the works and a labor of love.  My students have shown tremendous growth in their language and calendar skills.  Following directions, temporal/spatial concepts, executive functioning,answering "wh" questions, inferencing, and sequencing are just some of the many goal targets provided in these monthly activities.  

Here are some recent feedback comments:

For me, these calendar activities mean quick monthly prep, routine that students look forward to, functional calendar skills, and tangible language work samples for easy progress/data tracking! 

Not sure if they're for you, try a the month of June free HERE. 

For those of you who have collected the months of the year along this journey, I have the final July/August month completed HERE:

For those teachers, specialists, and parents who are interested in seeing month-to-month progress this bundle is the way to go.  You will save over 20% off the full price (worth 2 free months + free June). 

 Find it HERE. 

Purchase the bundle ANY time year as the calendars are updated each calendar year free of charge.  

Thanks for all of your kind words and feedback!  

What's in Your Cart? Linky Party. Teacher Appreciation Sale!

Thanks so much for hosting another What's in Your Cart? Linky Party.  I'm so excited and honored that Jenna at Speech Room News highlighted my Topic Text Product on her page.  The next TPT store-wide sale is coming up May 6 and 7th.  

Here are some of my wish list items that I'll be purchasing during this last sale of the school year.  

My PlayHome Stores: 

I'm so excited to purchase this app companion activity.  My students and I love the PlayHome Stores app and this companion will be a great addition to help focus on language goals with iPad use.    

3 Strikes You're Out!

I think that this product will be perfect for my older students.  I have a lot of baseball players and problem solving and perspective taking go hand and hand with this activity.  Looking forward to downloading this!  

Shades of Meaning Puzzles

I put this on my wish list as soon as I saw Speech Time Fun post it on her Facebook page.  What a fabulous fun way to introduce the many shades of meaning.  

I have many spring themed products at my store and I thought I would highlight a few that will be on sale for 20% off.  Use the code TPTXO for an additional 10% off!

Spring Figurative Language

This is a comprehensive thematic product for older students who are working on higher level language functions.  There are many printable pages including black and white.  Data forms come with the pages to easily track student progress. 

Community Buildings and Helpers

This is my first Life Skills focus activity on Teacherspayteachers.  I have been using it this week with my students and they are doing so well.  It is  is loaded with 160 matching cards and 20 building cards in both floor and table size, and black/white coloring pages.  Check this one out if you work with the younger population or life skills students.  

 May Calendar Activities for Language

Warning: Try these calendar activities and you may get hooked.  I use the activities every month and receive a lot of great feedback on them as well. My students are making steady gains and becoming more skilled at reading a calendar, sequencing, understanding temporal and spatial concepts, and following directions.  

Thanks so much for supporting SLPs on Teacherspayteachers! May this sale bring you materials to make your end of the year planning a breeze.