2024-25 Home Activities
You can choose to do this scavenger hunt on your own with your child or you can follow along with me, if you'd like! (Link below.)
Color Scavenger Hunt!
(Watch with your child!)
Focus on the core words you, go, and eat. Label the animals, and make their noises!
Model the core words look and what. Point out all of the descriptive vocabulary words, such as round, small, soft, white, fluffy.
Go on a leaf hunt! Talk about the different attributes of a leaf - Where is it? (Location concepts - in a tree, on the ground, under the tree.) What is it doing? (Action words - "It's falling.") What sound does it make? What parts does it have? Who does it belong to? (Pronouns "my leaf" and "your leaf.") Talk about the many colors of leaves and how leaves give us shade from the sun.
Get your crunch on! There are a ton of communication skills you can practice while picking and eating apples. You can work on color, size, and shape vocabulary; wh- questions; pronouns; sequencing; object parts; core vocabulary words using multiple modes; action words; descriptive adjectives; spatial concepts; and articulation.
You can use any favorite toys (such as cars, dolls, action figures, or stuffed animals) to do this during play!
Prepositions with Dinosaur Stacking Boxes - Speech Therapy for Toddlers
Pick a simple recipe, prepare everything you'll need ahead of time, then bring your child in. Have fun talking through what you're doing!
Butterfly Nature Craft (and Video)
Build language skills with your child while you make one (or all!) of these simple, yummy creations:
What Do You Like to Do in the Snow? - Learn winter activities vocabulary
and core words what, like, and I like
Snow Action Song - Practice naming or pointing to body parts
Teach the word stop when the leprechaun says "Freeze!" and the word go when he starts dancing again! You can also work on action words such as clap, dance, stomp, hop, and turn. If your child is able to form complete sentences, you can practice adding pronouns like "HE is dancing," "I am stomping," or "YOU are hopping." This song is also helpful for labeling the body parts of hands, heels, legs, knees, and toes.
Practicing Final Consonant Sounds
Ending Sounds Song - Jack Hartmann
Practicing Final Consonants - Peachie Speechie
Good Night, Gorilla story - UniqueSpeechServices
Help Mr. Clay find eggs and use prepositions (under, on top, in front, behind, etc.) to describe their locations. Grown-ups, you can then hide your own eggs or other items for your child to find and keep the preposition fun going! This is also a great opportunity for lots of /g/ sound practice, if your child is working on this - go, egg, big, got it, guess, in the bag.
Learn lots of vocabulary when talking about what items are needed for planting seeds; work on sequencing steps using the words first, next, then, and last; and use core vocabulary phrases like help, open it, and put in.
Name the parts of a plant, and try to imitate the movements to the song.
Find out what you can do to help the planet while focusing on the core words me, you, and do and imitating the dance moves.
Current classroom
theme!
Practicing Language while Making Homemade Ice Cream - Project Play Therapy
Making Ice Cream while Modeling AAC - Loudoun County Public Schools AT
Building vocabulary, sequencing steps, learning basic concepts, and practicing lots of /p/ and /b/ sound words - pick, pull, put in, pay, bag, bush, bucket, big
Places to pick strawberries, blueberries, apples, and peaches
Play this fun, simple, outdoor game to build decsriptive vocabulary (e.g., big, white, smooth); use repetitive phrases with the words hide, where, and found; use position concepts (e.g., on, under, next to); and work on speech sounds.
Cool down this summer while helping your child learn new words through repetition, use adjectives (wet, dry, dark, light), follow directions with sidewalk chalk, describe textures (chalky, smooth), practice location words (up, down, behind, under), and label body parts.