Letter Search

Talk to your child about letters this summer! Do this letter search activity and have them find the different letters.  Have them circle the letters they find.  Then, have them count how many they found.  Match the number with the number of letters they found!

Find all of the "A"s!

Find all of the "B"s!

 Find all of the "C"s!

Find all of the "D"s!

Match the numbers with each picture!  Talk about the difference between numbers and letters.

Easter Story

This is the Easter vocabulary story we are doing in Mary's class this week. Please print out the story and work on it with your child!  The words in bold are the vocabulary words for the month.

 Page 1:  Mary is going to hunt for some Easter eggs!  She wants to find a purple, pink, green, orange, and blue Easter egg.
Questions: What does Mary want to find?  What color Easter eggs does she want to see?

 Page 2: First Mary looks in a basket.  She doesn't see any eggs!  She only sees candy.  Mary still wants to find the Easter eggs!
Questions: What does Mary want to find?  What does Mary find in the basket?

Page 3: Next, Mary sees a bunny, chick, and duck. She says "Have you guys seen the Easter eggs?"  "No, sorry!" they all say.

Questions: Who does Mary talk to?  What do they say?  

Page 4: Then, Mary looks in the flowers.  She doesn't see any Easter eggs!  She only sees butterflies!

Questions: Where does Mary look next?  What does she see in the flowers?

Page 5: Mary looks in the grass next.  Yay!  She found her Easter eggs!

Questions: Where does Mary look next?  What does she see in the grass?  How does Mary feel?

Pig Pig Activity

This week in APPLE and KIWI we will be reading "Pig Pig Gets a Job."  We will be focusing on final /g/ words.  If you would like to do this activity at home, please print out the following pages:

Give your child the following directions:

Put the pink pig on the school.

Put the purple pig in the garden

Put the orange pig above the balloons

Put the yellow  pig on the plane

Put the blue pig under the cloud

Put the red pig next to the school.

Put the green pig  in the cloud.

While you say a word with a /k/ or /g/ sound, but your hand to your throat to symbolize that you are putting your tongue back to produce the word. 

After they have completed the steps, have them tell you where the pigs are using a complete sentence.  Tell them to put their tongue back when they say words with /k/ and /g/.  Again, put your hand to your throat as a cue to put their tongue back if they are having trouble.  

Example:  “The pink pig is _____.”

                  “The purple pig is  ___.”

We will also be singing the following pig song:

We are also using a "farm" sensory bin.  We will work on using our "good sounds" to talk about the animals, where they are, and what they are doing.

Garden Story

Here is the garden story we will be using after spring break.  Please print out the pictures and tell the story to your child. When you are done, you can have your child retell the story to you. They can also tell you about what they see in the pictures or answer wh-questions.

The following are the vocabulary words that will be targeted: garden, soil, flowers, seeds, water, sun

Page 1: Maria wants to make a garden full of flowers! She plants lots of seeds in the soil.

Questions: What does Maria plant? What does she want to grow?

Page 2: Maria wants the flowers to grow, so she gives the garden a taco.  Nothing grows!  

Questions: What does Maria give the garden first?  Does anything happen to the garden?

Page 3: Next, Maria gives the garden cheese.  Nothing happens to the garden!  There are still no flowers.

Questions: What does Maria give next?  What happens? What color is the cheese?

Page 4: Next, Maria gives the garden a cupcake.  Once again nothing happens!  Maria still wants flowers!

Questions: What did Maria give the garden next?  What happened?  

Page 5: Maria has an idea!  She uses a watering can and gives the garden lots of water.

Questions: What did Maria give the garden? What do you think will happen?

Page 6: Because Maria gives the garden water, lots of flowers grow!  Maria is so happy!  She finally has a garden full of flowers!

Questions: What grew in the garden? What did the garden need to grow flowers?  How did Maria feel?

Echo Reading

Echo reading is when a parent or therapist reads a text and the student "copies" the reader. This activity can be introduced by saying "I'll read, then you copy me." Read a section of the book or song and exaggerate. A great book to try this out with is "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?" by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle Say the whole phrase "Polar bear, polar, what do you hear?" (Then the student repeats what you say using the same intonation). Next say "I hear a lion roaring in my ear." (Then the student again repeats using the same intonatinon). Continue using this format until the book is finished!

Some other books to try with echo reading are "Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers" by Merle Peek and James Cross Giblin "5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" by Eileen Christelow "Down by the Bay (Raffi Songs to Read)" by Raffi and Nadine Bernard Westcott