Summer Gift Tags

I always try to give my students a little end of the year gift. They have worked so hard all year and I want to be sure to encourage them and let them know how proud I am!

Earlier this week I walked into Dollar General and saw a box of 24 bubbles for $3. Score! I was able to get a little treat for all 48 of my students for only $6! Score!

My gift this year will be a small bottle of bubbles with a tag that says ‘You blew me away this year!’

Last year I put together a package of KoolAide and a crazy straw with a tag that said ‘Have a Kool Summer!’ 

I have also seen on Pinterest giving a beach ball with a tag that reads 'Have a ball this summer!'

Go here to grab our summer gift tags for FREE!

What do you do for your students at the end of the year?

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Erik X. Raj has done it again! His new app I Dare You Articulation is out for only $4.99! (If you haven’t heard of his other app Multiple Choice Articulation go HERE.) 

I am always on the lookout for activities to target the conversation/ carryover level, especially this time of year when I am assessing end of the year progress! It is also great because it keeps my little guys active! And boy are they FULL of energy here at the end. 

What does this app do? Well first choose a phoneme (S, Z, R, L, SH, CH, TH). 

Then choose initial, medial or final.

Next Have your student read the ‘dare’ using their good speech! Next act out the dare!

Your kids will have fun and you will get a kick out of watching them act out the dare!

Now it is your turn to try it out! Enter to win this app for free!

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TpT Giveaway

I hope you all were able to stop by TpT’s Teacher Appreciation Sale and stock up on some goodies for the end of the year!


If you missed out, don’t worry!

In honor of BSHM and Teacher Appreciation week we have decided to do a giveaway!

You can win the product of your choice from The Speech Ladies TpT store! To enter, just leave a comment with the product you would like and your email address!

Happy May!

Digital Problem Solver App

*This is not an official app review. Social Express did not contact me to write about the DPS app, I just like it and wanted to share with you!

I am a big fan of The Social Express! My kids love using their app and it opens up great opportunities to talk about different pragmatic situations. In this app the characters use a DPS (digital problem solver) that helps them identify their feelings and allows them to select a coping strategy. 

This March I attended the SHAA conference and learned that there was a real Digital Problem Solving app you can purchase for .99 cents! I have been using it with a few of my students and it has been great! 

Students choose an emotion.

Then they can scroll through different coping strategies and choose the one they want to use. The Social Express character then demonstrates how to use that coping strategy. 

Mostly I find it effective because it forces my kids to slow down and process through their emotions (how they feel, what triggered that feeling, what to do with the feeling, ect.).

What apps do you like use when teaching your kiddos about feelings?

Teacher Appreciation Sale

Today and tomorrow TpT is having a site wide sale in honor of teacher appreciation week! Use code TAD13 for an additional 10% off!

To honor all the SLPs who work in schools, we are calling this the ‘Speecher Appreciation Sale’!

Stop by The Speech Ladies store to rack up on products that are 20% off! (28% off with your special code!)

Some of our new items include:

 

 

Articulation Process Posters (to learn about this product see this post.)

 

 

 

 

WH Question Scramble Card Game

This product includes 60 WH question cards, 12 bonus cards and an answer key. As usual, print, cut and laminate. Mix cards up and lay card stack face down on the table. Students draw one card at a time. The questions on the card are scrambled. The student must unscramble the words to ask the question, then other students may answer. Watch out for cats who may steal your cards! Whoever has the most cards in the end wins!

Enjoy the sale!

Articualtion Process Posters

15 DAYS TILL SUMMER! I don’t know about you, but summer can’t get here fast enough! I can tell my students feel the same way. Around this time of year, they tend to give up and seem to need a little extra motivation. 

My kiddos tend to be very visual, so I was brainstorming ways to create a visual chart so they could take an active part in their progress. Thus the Articulation Process Chart was born!

The idea is very simple. I took 6 steps SLPs use in articulation therapy and wrote out student friendly definitions. (I realize that you could break this down into more than 6 steps but my goal here was to keep it simple.) The 6 steps I used were generalization, conversation, reading, sentences, words and isolation.

I printed out the pages, laminated them and hot glued them to a ribbon. Then I attached the ribbon to a ring and displayed it in my classroom! It comes in 2 fonts - leopard print letters and pink polka dot letters. 

To grab this product go to Articulation Process Posters!

Each student was given a clothespin with their name and sound written on it. (If they are working on more than one sound they were given multiple clothespins.) The students put their clothespins on the current level they were working on. This has worked as a great visual to show how far they have come with their sound and how much farther they have to go. 

I wish I had done this at the beginning of the year so that they could have been focusing on reaching the top of the ribbon all year! I think that when they get to the top (generalization) I will let them pick a special prize form the treasure box as a reward!

As an added bonus, this has been a helpful visual for my teachers and administrators to see. So few of them understand articulation therapy and how it works. It has opened up opportunities for me to talk about what I am doing with my students and how far they have come!

What are you doing to motivate your students at the end of the year?

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