Thanksgiving

Books:

Games:

We played several games with this blow up turkey, although  mine has a hole in it so it was deflating! I bought mine from amazon last year, and they still have some if you want to buy one!

Hot Turkey: The same as hot potato, just with a turkey!

Who has the turkey?: We targeted "who" questions by guessing "who has the turkey?" I hid the turkey behind a students back, and we all said "Who has the turkey?" It ended with the student that hid the turkey displaying the turkey, but we still got to practice "who" questions.

Where is the turkey?:  We targeted "where" questions with the turkey too.  I hid the turkey somewhere in the classroom, and then we all said "Where is the turkey?" Then all of the students walked around the classroom to find the turkey.

Pass the turkey: We stood in a circle and threw the turkey to our friends.  The students had to say the student's name that they were passing the turkey to.  This game was basically to just target social interaction.

Playdough Mats:

Here are the Thanksgiving playdough mats  I made for the kids to use.  They include wh-questions on the top to promote conversation.  You can print them out for free on my site.

Leaves

Book:

This book is so cute and simple!  It is also a great book to teach the change in seasons. 

Art:

I found these trees somewhere online, but I can't remember!  The kids used cue-tips to paint leaves on the trees.  It was supposed to be dots, but they got a little more creative!

Small World Play:

I made a small world play of leaves, lizards, and lady bugs.  Every time the students said their articulation words, they got a one of the objects to put in the small world play.

Sensory Bin:

We put some fall objects in birdseed and beans for the students to play in!

Phonology Activity:

For our phonology activity, we worked on /l/ for leaves.  The students all made a leaf "fall" from the tree.  On the back of each leaf was a picture of a word that begins with  /l/,  You can find the pictures I used here.  

Farm Theme

For the first part of the month we have been focusing on farms! Here are the books and activities we have done for this theme: 

Books:

We have read "The Farm Book" and "This is Daniel Cook at the Farm."  These are both great books for focusing on asking questions and farm vocabulary words.

Here are some other books we had in our library about farms and Thanksgiving.  We didn't specifically target these books, but they would be other great ones to read with your child!

Song Activity:

We sang the song "Old McDonald had a Farm" and used these farm animal masks. You can find them on the website for free!

Small World Play:

I made a farm small world play for the kids to play with.  I used an old suitcase, and put in small farm animals, a family, and some hay.  I used this to target increasing sentence length, learning vocabulary words, and following directions. 

Sensory Bin:

The sensory bin I made is similar to the small world play, it was just in a larger container!

Playdough Mats:

 For a tabletop activity, I made farm playdough mats.  You can get them off of Teachers Pay Teachers for free!  I used them to target vocabulary words, follow directions, and work on colors. 

  

November Words

Here are the vocabulary words for November!  The first set are the ones we will be working on in the placemats.  The second set are the same, they are just bigger.  Please work on these words with your children the next month!

Halloween Week!

Here is everything we did this week in KIWI, Miss Mary's class, and Miss Alissa's class!

Here's what we did in KIWI: 

We read this super cute book about Marley, the "bad" puppy!  The students loved talking about all of the naughty things Marley was doing.  If your child is in Mary's or Alissa's class, we didn't get a chance to read this, so I would get it from the library if you can!

In KIWI we also painted pumpkins!  Here is one that was a "Barbie Pumpkin."

The following is what we did in Miss Mary's and Miss Alissa's classrooms:

We played with these great palydough mats! I got these super cute ones from Tot Schooling.  It was a great way to get kids to request for colors, and it was a great way to learn some new Halloween vocabulary words.

We also worked on the following story.  I read the story to them, then after we answered questions.  It targeted a few of our monthly vocabulary words.

Once there was a farmer.  She was thinking about a spider. She wanted to go and find a spider.

First she looked on her farm, but she didn't see a spider anywhere!

After, she asked an owl.  She said "Have you see a spider?"  The owl said "No, sorry!"

Second, she asked a bat.  She said "Have you seen a spider?"  The bat answered, "No, sorry!"

Third, she looked in a spider web. There was a spider in the web!  The farmer was so happy she finally found a spider!

After we read the story, we played in the small world plays.  The students got to play with all of spiders and insects.  We talked about the insects getting stuck in the web.  It was a great hands on experience!

Pumpkin Patch Articulation

This week we did a fun articulation  activity!  Since we have been learning about pumpkins and vines, I made a little pumpkin patch.  The students had to come pick a pumpkin from the vine.  Then they had to tell us what letter was on the pumpkin, and the picture that was on the back.  We did "T" and "D" words since those are the sounds their class is working on.  They then had to put the pumpkin in the basket that had a "D" pumpkin, or the basket that had the "T" pumpkin.

Pumpkin Patch Small World Play

To go with the book "Apples and Pumpkins," I made a pumpkin patch small world play for my kids. It has a lot of the vocabulary words from the story.  In this first one, there is a family that is going to the pumpkin patch.  Here, we talked about a lot of actions and worked on following directions.  We also sorted all of the objects.  We put all of the leaves in a basket, then acorns in another one, and pumpkins in the third one. Here it is in action:

 Here it is all set up nicely!

I also made another one that was in a bigger box.  With this small world play, I worked primarily on learning the vocabulary. I had the students find a specific object, and then find where it went on a paper that had the outline of all the objects:

I got all of my objects at a dollar store!  Let me know if you have any questions!