Valentine's Day activities for this week!

As you all know, Valentine's Day is this Thursday!  I love to see the cards students exchange in class and how excited they all get!  I'm sure many of you have seen tons of Valentine's Day themed TpT activities.  Will you be using any this week in your speech room?  I will be using two  of my {FREEBIES}, Valentine's Day Vocabulary Matching and Heart Train of Multiple Meaning Words along with a few other ideas/activities!  A few days ago, I posted about the Valentine's Day speech booklets my students would be making.  Many of my groups worked on the booklets last week and will be finishing up this week.  I love doing little crafts or DIY type activities especially because they can be used as homework/carryover.  

Here is how the Valentine's Day speech booklets have been coming along so far... 

 I love that the students have been practicing writing and saying their speech words, being creative, and having fun with this adorable activity!

Below is a picture of a few other activities we will be doing this week.  My students will be reading/discussing the book, There was an old lady who swallowed a rose!  We will follow it up by using Crazy Speech World's language unit that goes with the book!  

I found this cute "heart" worksheet in a folder that was left by the previous speech therapist.  The idea is to have students color in a piece of the heart each time he/she produces a speech sound correctly.  I am also going to use this with some of my language groups.  For example, if the student answers a "wh" question correctly, he/she will color in a piece.  I love that this worksheet is so versatile! 

Finally, I will be using my two Valentine's Day {FREEBIES}.  You can head over to my TpT store to check out all the details and grab them!

Hope you all can use some of the ideas/activities listed here with your students this week!  

Kristine

Live Love Speech

Superhero Emotions Activity and a VDAY {FREEBIE}

Happy Friday!  I am hoping the blizzard doesn't hit us too hard!  I hope you are all safe tonight!!!  Since I am stuck at home tonight, I want to post about my two newest activities....

Superhero Emotions Activity {Listening & Identifying/Expressing Emotions}

I have used various "superhero" type graphics in several of my activities.  My students absolutely love them!!!  This first activity includes 81 game cards and has been created to target listening skills and identifying/expressing emotions.

Included:

Game board

Emotion “choice” board

Numbered emotion board

2 Sets of number cards: 1 to 12

Set 1: 45 cards with targeted emotional phrases 

Set 2: 36 cards with phrases to be read with various emotional inflections.

How to play:
Set 1: Place the emotion “choice” board in the center of the table. All game cards should be placed in a pile. Students take turns choosing the top card from the pile and read or listen to the phrase. Once the appropriate emotion is named, the student rolls the dice and moves on the game board. 

Set 2: Place the numbered emotion board in the center of the table. Emotion game cards and number cards should be placed in face down and side by side in separate piles. Each student will choose an emotion card and a number card. He/she will locate the emotion that matches the number and read the phrase in a tone of voice that matches the targeted emotion. The first student to raise his/her hand or buzz in and guess the emotion correctly, gets the card! The student with the most cards wins!

Valentine’s Day Vocabulary Matching {FREEBIE}

This freebie can be used with students to work on identifying vocabulary words and meanings while having fun!

Included:

18 Valentine’s Day vocabulary words

18 Valentine’s Day themed vocabulary word meanings

6 wild cards

4 “Candy boxes” 

How to play:

This game was created to be played as a matching game. Vocabulary words and meaning cards should be separated and placed face down. Students take turns choosing cards and try to match the word to the correct meaning. When a word and meaning are correctly matched, the student will collect the matches on their own “candy box”. The student to make the most matches wins the game! If students choose a wild card, they must put back a set of matches!

Here are the links for BOTH activities....

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Superhero-Emotions-listening-skills-identifyingexpressing-emotions

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Valentines-Day-Vocabulary-Matching-FREEBIE

Hope you all enjoy!!!! 
Kristine
Live Love Speech

Easy and Fun Valentine's Day Booklet/Carryover Activities!

Happy Thursday everyone!!!  I wanted to share my quick, simple, and fun Valentine's Day booklet and carryover activities that I will be using in my speech room next week.  I came up with the ideas to use with my articulation students.  I'm not sure about all of you, but my caseload is 50% ESLS students.  I get very bored with the same board games and activities, so I am constantly trying to come up with new ideas! I will be posting many more pictures next week once I use the activities with my students.  So here we go....

Valentine's Day Articulation Booklet

Each student will get the worksheet with blank hearts, a piece of construction paper (color of his/her choice of course!), and a word/picture list (depending on which speech sound he/she is working on).  I have a lot of craft supplies in my room including markers, crayons, colored pencils, stickers, glitter pens, tissue paper, paint, and more!  

Students will write words from their own articulation lists onto the blank hearts.  They can then color in all the hearts and be creative as they would like!  Next, they will cut out all of the hearts and glue them onto the front, inside, and/or back of their booklet.  As you can see in the picture above, I just labeled my sample booklet as "My Valentine's Speech Booklet".  I will have my students write their names and add their speech goal as well to the front of the booklet.

The best part about this Valentine's Day booklet is it can be taken home to use as practice/homework!  SLPs know how important it is for students to practice, practice, practice!!  

Hope you all enjoy this post and cute idea!  I will be posting more pictures and updates next week once my students make their booklets!

Review of Valentine’s Day Pragmatics created by The Speech Bubble

Review of Valentine’s Day Pragmatics created by The Speech Bubble

I had the opportunity to review this AMAZING Valentine’s Day Pragmatic Packet!! This 64 card activity targets many social skills using the cutest Valentine graphics! You can grab this activity here!! Also, be sure to head over to The Speech Bubble’s blog and check out her review of my activity, Skiing Vocabulary.

Here is what you receive in this packet:

Three activities to work on social skills including:

How Sweet It Is: (24 activity cards, 8 wild cards) Expected and unexpected behaviors. Students read the situation and determine if the behavior is appropriate (expected) or inappropriate (unexpected) for the situation and place card on appropriate side of included mat.


I'm Stuck on You: (24 activity cards, 8 wild cards) This activity works on flexible thinking/problem solving. Students read the situation on the card and create a reasonable solution. 

You're the Apple of My Eye: (16 activity cards, 8 wild cards) This activity works on perspective taking. Students read the situation on the card and determine how other students may view the situation.

There are a total of 64 cards!

Goals this activity focuses on:

This is a great game for students working on answering questions, critical thinking, problem solving, reading comprehension, social skills, and listening skills.

How my students played each activity:

How sweet it is:  I used this activity with one of my 3^rd grade groups.  My students took turns flipping over a card and reading the situation and behavior (i.e.  “You are talking while the teacher is giving directions for a game.”).  Then, he/she needed to decide if the behavior stated on the card was appropriate (expected) or inappropriate (unexpected) and place it in the correct column on the mat.  My students really enjoyed this activity and it also sparked many conversations about appropriate/inappropriate behaviors.

I’m stuck on you:  This adorable activity was used with a 3^rd and 4^th grade group.  Students took turns choosing and reading cards which included various situations (i.e. “You are passing out your Valentine’s cards and forgot one for your friend.  What will you do?”  Each student needed to come up with a possible solution to the situation.  For my older students, I had them come up with more than 1 solution which added a challenge!  They really enjoyed choosing a wild card which states “Surprise! Someone sent you a Valentine’s Note. Go again!”  The student who ended up with the most cards was the winner!

You’re the apple of my eye:  This was personally my favorite activity of them all!  I have many students who need work on perspective taking so I used it with a bunch of my groups.  Students took turns choosing cards and reading the social situation (i.e. “A girl doesn’t like the card she got and throws it away.  What will people think?”)    When answered correctly, the student got to keep the card.  If a wild card was chosen (“you got an extra candy for being so sweet. Go again.”), the student got an extra turn.  The student with the most cards was the winner!  My students really enjoyed this activity!!

This is a must have packet that targets so many social skills goals. Your students will love using it for Valentine’s Day.

Here is all the information you need to check out The Speech Bubble and her activities:

Blog: http://thespeechbubbleslp.blogspot.com/

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TPT store: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Speech-Bubble

Be sure to head over to her blog, facebook page, and TPT store to show support.

Head over to her blog to see a review of my activity, Skiing Vocabulary!!
You can grab Skiing into Vocabulary here!

Thanks everyone for checking out my blog!!!