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! 

Makeover Madness!

When I started making therapy games and activities for my students, I didn't really know how to make them look as exciting as they really were.  At the time, I thought they were amazing and so did my students...thankfully.  Well, in the past year, I have learned a lot about how to make these games and activities look amazing.  So, my goal in the next year is to redo some of these therapy materials.  I have been putting off this large endeavor, until now!  Emily Yost, from Third In Hollywood, has set out a challenge (Makeover Madness) to makeover one of your current products.  I accepted the challenge, so here is the first of many upcoming product makeovers. 

The game that I chose was my 'Sports Themed Games for Basic Concepts'.  I absolutely loved this product and it was one of the favorites among the kids that I worked with.  They loved to pick out the game board (there are 5 options) and game pieces (there are 4 options).  I picked the game cards based on what goals the group was working on (feelings, antonyms/synonyms, prepositions, sequence words, following directions, size/quantity or colors/shapes).  There are 329 game cards, so this game never gets old for me or my students! 

Even though I loved this game, there were a few things that I did not like.  Here are the things that I didn't like. 

After a few hours of revamping, I kept the basic items in the games, but redid some backgrounds, graphics and text.  Here are the results!

If you like this product or would like to know more about it, you can purchase it at My Teachers Pay Teachers Store.  To view other teacher's and therapist's product makeovers, visit Third In Hollywood. 

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!

First Day Back Activity

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Need a fun activity to do the first week back to school? Try out this activity and work on multiple goals with all of your students! Ask 'wh' questions, work on articulation, have conversations, work on similarities and differences, have students name colors and more!