Welcome to my second Third Thursday Three for All linky party. Once a month, I challenge myself to come up with 3 ways to use a different activity/game, teach a specific skill or 3 different resources to address different activities/goals. The "for All" part comes in when other Speech bloggers join in with their new or old posts on how they use the same activities. I LOVE the fact that I can get a bunch of ideas in one place. My choice for this month was another activity: Lego® or Duplo® bricks. Pinterest has a variety of different ideas for using these in therapy. 1. Just building it: I have a lot of clients who are on the Autism Spectrum. A lot of them really like Lego's®. It's a great way to work on executive functioning and problem solving. Can they plan which pieces they need to get? What if a piece is missing? What could they do to fix it. I've found step by step photos to build simple items to use with clients who need to have the instructions broken down to a single step per page. You can work on concepts: Put the red brick on top or under the yellow brick. Bring in some of the Lego® bricks into a social skills group to work on conversational skills. Boys tend to converse more when they are "doing" something where girls are more comfortable just talking. Can the group work together to build something simple? 2. Sentence Construction: This was one of my first blog posts. It's a great way to work on how you can "construct" a sentence. I definitely adapted this idea from another blogger-but of course I can't remember who. Please take credit for this! I wrote out the sentences first-and then made up different labels using the Avery Address and return address labels. I have a lot of non-readers so I added Boardmaker symbols to the sides of the blocks so that the kids could read them. 3. Prefixes and Suffixes: I work on prefixes and suffixes with some of my middle school and high school aged students. I was looking for a "fun" way to address them in our therapy sessions. I love that you can physical move the prefixes to strengthen their understanding that the word meanings change based on the prefix or suffix attached. I hope you found some of these ideas useful for how to use legos® in Speech Therapy. If you did, please consider sharing on Pinterest, Twitter or Facebook by clicking on the buttons below! I bet you have some great ideas for how to use Lego's® in Therapy. Link up your old or new blog posts below! Don't have a blog? Join the party on Instagram by sharing your favorite Lego activities using #slpthirdthursdays!

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I warned you this week was odd. It's my final week of student teaching which means I am not technically teaching any lessons. I am in the "phase out" portion of my journey when I relinquish my duties back to the mentor teacher. It feels weird. Here are three random things I wanted to share! 1: A Day In Kinder Yesterday I was a kindergarten teacher. I guess you could say today was my first full day as a substitute teacher. Our school district is painfully short on substitute teachers for some reason. Although I graduated on Saturday, I technically haven't received my certification yet but thanks to loopholes and whatnot I was able to help out for the day. I won't lie, there were some tears during the day (from students, not me!). Overall though, I had a blast with the kinders! The teacher left great notes with plenty of tips throughout and she even had everything I needed out and labled. Talk about setting the bar high! 2: Gifts from the Student Teacher Student Gifts: Buying student gifts was a but daughter because, let's be honest, I'm a student teacher so I don't get paid. I found 3 packs of cute snowflake-shaped crayons in the dollar spot at Target and had to use them. Snowflakes are one of my favorite things and I love crayons. For the presentation I used the cutter at the school to make paper snowflakes and then glued this cute (and sorta) little note on each of them. I also wanted to give my students a gift as a farewell for the end of my student teaching. I printed a picture of each of them wearing my graduation gown. Those got mounted on some yellow paper and I attached a short note on the back thanking them. Mentor Teacher Presents: For both of my mentor teachers, I got them these adorable apple shaped Post-it note dispensers. I used puffy paint to add their name and a short note on the back. I purchased some mini frames from Target a while back with the intent of using them for a future crafting project. I decided to use one of Nelson Mandela's famous quotes to fill the frame. (If you like it, feel free to snag it here!) With a little ribbon, I added a bow to hang the frame. On the back of each frame I included a seal from the University of Idaho. I made one for each of my mentor teachers and also for the vice principal of the elementary school I am at. She has worked very closely with me throughout my student teaching and been really supportive. I'm also including a personal letter to each of them and to the principal as well, thanking them for the experience. 3: #LaterBlog - A Look At Last Week How do you get desks clean and teach fractions? Shaving cream! Fridays in the Resource Room we usually do things a little different because of late start. All kiddos with IEP's in each grade come at one time. We typically try to do something a little more hands on an different to engage students, especially those who may not need support in a specific area (ie we might do a math lesson but have some kids who usually only get services for reading and writing). Last Friday we had fun with both our fifth grade and fourth grade groups. We covered desks in shaving cream and practiced drawing, comparing, and writing fractions. It smelled amazing and I couldn't believe how focused some of our squirrels were! I don't think I have out any reminders to stay on topic or complete the problems. They were rewarded with a few minutes of free time drawing. Suddenly my fifth/forth graders were as giggly and smiley as a bunch of kinders! P.S. Oh man, did I forget to mention that tomorrow is my last day of student teaching? Umm, what!? I can't even processing it just yet.

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This week we had a little fun down on the farm in Tot School. This was such a fun theme with lots of engaging activities to explore! Here were our plans for Farm week: And here are the details of each activity: Our favorite farm books for the week were:Farm by Mary NovickMrs. Wishy Washy […]

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This resource includes everything you need to teach the use of commas and quotation marks in dialogue. These materials will allow you to explicitly teach, reinforce, and assess the use of commas and quotation marks in dialogue in just a few minutes a day. What’s Included: •PowerPoint Lesson (Monday) •Practice Printable (Tuesday) •30 Task Cards (Wednesday) •Sketch Notes (Thursday) •Assessment (Friday) •BONUS: Interactive Notebook Activity Download the preview for a detailed overview of the resource.   NOTE: This resource was written based on third-grade content standards. However, none of the student materials are labeled with a grade level. This will allow teachers to use this resource across grade levels.

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Are you looking for an easy-to-prep weekly homework folder to send home? This kindergarten homework pack contains 9 weeks of spiral review ELA and math homework to send home for a quick daily review. There are four days of work each week. Plus, there is a free homework folder cover included, too. This set is for the third quarter of your school year, including Weeks 19-27. What is included? A sheet that lists out all standard skills focused on this quarter Digital link to Google Slides with a conversion 9 weeks of spiraling weekly homework Blank assignment page for you to handwrite in what you'd like BONUS freebie homework folder labels Each week includes: Assignment sheet and reading log- nightly Monday- Math Tuesday- Language & Foundational Skills Wednesday- Reading Thursday- Writing Skills Focused on This Quarter: Ten frame Missing numbers Length and weight Shape identification Number names Teen frames Oral counting to 50 Simple addition with pictures Number tracing Shape attributes Counting and cardinality Simple subtraction Medial vowels Letter writing Letter sounds Capital vs. lowercase letters Rhyming words CVC words Color words Word families Beginning and ending sounds Plural nouns Phonetic spelling Real vs. nonsense words Beginning blends Letter tracing Sentence writing (with tracing font) Letter writing Sight word sentences (with picture clues) Ask and answer questions Sight words Word family fluency Matching sentences to pictures If you're interested in sharing with other classrooms, make sure to buy extra licenses. If you are interested in a large number of licenses, please contact me for a quote. To get the PDF, either use the link in the email from Etsy or use the following directions: Log in to your account. Click "Your account" in the top right corner. Click "Purchases and reviews". Click "Download files" next to the appropriate purchase. The PDF will now be found in the "Downloads" section of your computer. This purchase is for the digital download of a PDF. No physical copy of this unit will be mailed out. The PDF is designed for standard sized, 8.5"x11" paper. Elementary Nest is not responsible for any printing issues that may arise. No returns on any digital products.

Hi ya'll! I'm back again this week with a new Our reading skill for this week was cause & effect. I introduced cause & effect with this anchor chart. The students also had all the information (with a little extra) from the anchor chart in a note format for their literacy binder. To give examples of cause & effect, we watched an animated version of Strega Nona which has a ton of cause/effect relationships. You can access the animated version here. It is from PBS so you will need to login or register. We watched it the first time while just listening. During the second viewing, I had the students jot down a few cause/effect relationships they noticed. Here are a few of my sweet students working hard! We recorded these on our Strega Nona anchor chart. We then discussed a few graphic organizers they could use to represent cause and effect.

Teachers wanna make math interesting from day one, right? They think putting together a binder with a cool cover could grab students attention. But creating a design thats both engaging and relevant to math isnt easy for everyone.

By Brandi N. Montreuil, Tulalip News TULALIP – In the midst of summer excitement, third graders from Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary School presented the last project of the school year to their peers, which incorporated the Since Time Immemorial curriculum. On Thursday, June 11, third graders hosted a mini cultural fair where they presented information … Continue reading "Third graders present cultural fair highlighting STI curriculum"

In honor of my son Sam’s birthday today, this week’s Throwback Thursday features the quilt portraits I’ve made of him. Starting with the most recent, there’s the two part (s…