Hi preschoolers and families! 

We hope you are able to find things on this site that you can do while on this break from school.  Along the right hand side, you can find categories of activities to do in areas such as articulation and language development.  There are links to videos of Speech-Language Pathologists teaching different sounds.  A March calendar is provided following this post for things to do each day in March.

We will miss you all and hope to see you very soon.

 Don't hesitate to email us at schmelzerd@hancockesc.org  or boura@hancockesc.org with any questions or concerns.  Keep well!

Donna Schmelzer, Speech-Language Pathologist for Van Buren, McComb, Liberty Benton
Mandy Bour, Speech-Language Pathologist for Riverdale, Arlington, Arcadia, Cory Rawson

Practice your speech sounds at home!

Copy and paste the links below to access videos of a speech therapist practicing different sounds.  


https://youtu.be/kTAtVWsvhNA     Use this if you are practicing /s/ or /z/. 

https://youtu.be/AZCfBnH_GGY     Use this if you are practicing /s/ blends such as "snow"

https://youtu.be/9xAoIxsyj38              Use this if you are practicing /f/.

https://youtu.be/megGv7jH0a0           Use this if you are practicing the /k/ sound

https://youtu.be/9-K3nLUThBE          Use this if you are practicing the /l/ sound



You can go to mommyspeechtherapy.com for worksheets for all the different sounds

MARCH 2020
Find the sound you are working on in this blog and practice it.
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Talk about the important dates in March (holidays, birthdays, etc.)	Talk about all the green items in a room.	Watch a favorite TV show and talk about it.	Sweep the kitchen floor. Use words like broom, dustpan, and dirt.	Make a cake and frost it with a special color of frosting.	Read a story, such as Little Red Riding Hood. Draw a picture of the main character.	Count all the clocks in the house.
Talk about bugs you see outside and where they live.	Find items in the basement or garage that are shaped like a triangle.	Name animals and make the sounds they a make.	Make a telephone call.	Organize the toy box.	Play a board game and talk about the rules	Trace hands and feet on paper. Decorate them with craft supplies.
Cut out pictures of fruit from a magazine and glue them onto a large piece of paper.	Hop down the hall or across the room. Count the number of hops.	Use a flashlight to search in a closet. Talk about what you find.	Color a picture and talk about the colors.	Look at a brush and comb. Talk about how they are the same and how they are different.	Touch things in the room and describe how they feel.	Practice saying nursery rhymes, pause and let your child fill in the rhyming word
Cut out pink and blue things from a magazine. Make a collage.	Sing along with a favorite song.	Look at a store advertisement and find different numbers.	Make a milkshake and talk about the different ingredients.	Think of a rhyming word for things you find around the house.	Go for a walk and look for white cars.	Make a spaceship from a cardboard box. Tell a story about space travel.
Pretend to be different storybook characters. Act like the characters.	Practice naming letters you see in a book or advertisement	Dance to music and talk about you actions.	Find the biggest and smallest stuffed animal in the house.	Look at a photograph and draw a picture of it.	Listen to the noises outside. Try to guess what they might be.	Look back at this month’s calendar. Talk about the important things              that happened.

/F/ Sound Practice Freebie!

Find this great, FREE activity on Teachers Pay Teachers at this link:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Firefighter-Craftivity-Initial-F-Freebie-2547751

K Sound and G Sound Activities!

http://www.playingwithwords365.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Books-that-Target-the-K-G-sounds-371x525.jpg  (Link to the source material blog)

I'm sure you've heard it...we ALWAYS recommend reading to your children to help their speech and language development. Well here is a list of great books that include the /k/ and /g/ sound!

• My “K” Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure
• Little Blue Truck Leads the Way by Alice Schertle
• The Cow That Went OINK by Bernard Most
• Kiss the Cow! by Phylis Root
• Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
• If You Give a Cat a Cupcake by Laura Numeroff
• One Duck Stuck by Phylis Root

And here are some for the /g/ sound:

• My “G” Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure
• Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
• We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
• Gooey Gummy Geese by Angela Holzer
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff by various authors (linked book by Paul Galdone)

Free Sound Practice Worksheets!

Find them at this blog:
http://slpmaterials.blogspot.com/2012/11/articulation-sh-data-sheet-isolation.html