Valentine's Day Speech Party!

Next week is already Valentine's Day!  Can you believe how fast this year is going?  I know, for me, that this time of year is usually full of IEPs, meetings, report cards, paperwork and everything just seems to be piling up.  It also seems to be the time of year where students start to get bored with the same old therapy games and begin to go a little stir crazy.  Not to mention, I always get little jealous of all the Valentine's Day parties that are happening, in all the classrooms, while I sit in my office billing medicaid... 

So, why not have a Valentine's Speech Party? I know, it sounds like a lot of planning and we have to work on speech goals, right?  Well, I did the planning for you!  Just click here to download the party plans and that's it!  It contains materials needed, a craft and a game to throw the ultimate speech party.  Your students will have a blast, while also working on their goals, of course! 

This specific download contains ideas for articulation therapy, however, you can have your students complete a language task in place of the articulation tasks.  I hope you and your students enjoy!

Valentine's Day Speech Party

ASHA Giveaways!

It's the week of the ASHA convention and I am so excited to be here in Denver!  If you are at the convention, please come and visit booth #345!  I would love to meet you, plus I have some great giveaways, prizes and you can play SLPlinko!  

If you aren't at the convention, don't worry.  I didn't forget about you!  I decided to do a giveaway this week to celebrate ASHA and to make sure that everyone is included in the excitement!  

WIN A $50 TPT CREDIT TO MY STORE 
PLUS

The No Print, Holiday Language & Articulation Game Bundle

 This bundle is worth $48 and includes Language & Articulation activities for 6 different holidays!  Holidays include Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day & Easter.  This bundle is also NO PRINT, which means you never have to print, cut, laminate or prep in any way.  You can use it on your iPad, iPhone or computer!  Your students will love these games!

Here are some examples of the activities included on the Thanksgiving game. 

 First, click on what your students are working on: Prepositions, Pronouns, WH Questions, Following Directions, Categories or Articulation. Then, start to play, while addressing these goals! 

 Spatial concepts such as in front, behind, next to, under, over and more!

50-60 'WH' questions including What, Why, When, Where & Who

Each holiday addresses different categories!

Following directions with temporal concepts such as First, Second, Next, Then, Before & After!

Pronouns section addresses He, She, It & They!

Finally, your students get to build items when they use their good sounds! Each holiday lets them build a different picture!

The best part about this bundle, is that you can switch up activities quickly and easily during the same therapy session.  If you have students that are working on different skills, this product is perfect! 

It's so simple to download (easy enough for us older people to use)!  Just download it on your iPad or iPhone, open it in Adobe Reader or iBooks and it's ready to use!

Get more details by clicking HERE!

Enter this giveaway to try and win $50 Speech Therapy Fun Credit & This No Print Game!

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Congratulations to Krista Dahm!  Thank you to everyone who entered! 

Valentine's FREEBIE!

Happy Valentine's Day! Please download my FREE gift today because it will only be available until midnight!! It is part of a larger bundle that will be coming out in the next week. This download not only contains 27 NO PREP color, cut and paste worksheets, but it also contains progress monitoring sheets! Just print this packet and target /k/ in all positions, in words, phrases and sentences! If you like it, I would love to get your comments below or on my FB page!

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Valentine's Day TPT Follower Appreciation!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!  In celebration of Valentine's Day, my entire TPT store will be on sale this Saturday and Sunday!  In addition to the sale, all of my TPT followers will be receiving a special message within the next 2 days with a special FREEBIE note inside! If you are not a follower yet, just visit my TPT store and click 'Follow Me' at the top of the page.  Then, email me at speechtherapyfun1@gmail.com or comment on this post with your email address.  I will send you the special follower message that contains the FREEBIE note!  I hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day Activity

Need a last minute activity for Valentine's day?  Well, hopefully this will be a fun activity to do with your students this week.  I just bye two boxes of Valentine's day cards for about $1.50 each.  I buy one 'girl' and one 'boy' box.  For example, I just recently bought a princess and a superheroes box of cards.  Besides the box of cards, you will just need crayons or markers, construction paper, glue and some stickers if you would like.  Once in therapy, have your students pick out one or two cards to glue onto their paper.  Once glued, start doing your therapy by asking questions, having them describe it or compare and contrast the pictures.  Here is how I address each goal.

'WH' Questions - Ask the students different questions about the card they picked.  Have them write their answers around the card and then decorate the paper.  Questions could include, 'Why did you pick this card?', 'What is the person doing?', 'Where else can you see this character?', etc.

Describe - Have the students glue a card in the middle of the paper.  Have them decorate around the card with descriptive words.  You can prompt the students by asking them questions or make it harder and don't give them any prompts.

Comparing - Have the students pick 2 cards and glue them next to each other.  Make 2 columns and label one 'Similar' and one 'Different'.  Have the students write down (or name if they can't write) 5 different similarities and differences under each column.  Then, have the students decorate their papers.

I hope you have fun with these Valentine's project ideas!