Communication Station: Speech Therapy PLLC: Winter

Monday, December 31, 2012

Marshmallow Surprise! A reinforcer game FREEBIE!

Marshmallow Surprise is just a fun little reinforcement game that can be used for all goals. Each child/student gets their own cup of "hot cocoa", and after numerous trials focusing on your child's individual goals, he/she chooses a game card to see how many real marshmallows he/she can add to the cup of cocoa. The child with the most marshmallows at the end of the session...wins! (Of course in reality, everyone wins b/c who doesn't want to eat marshmallows?)

Graphis from: Jessica Weible Illustraions

The second game that goes along with this marshmallow theme is a simple game board called Marshmallow Lane. Each student gets a game board. You place the designated number of real marshmallows on the numbered game board spots. Have your students practice their speech and language targets, roll the dice, and move the numbered spots. As the pass each spot, they get to eat their treats. Whomever gets to the hot cocoa and eats their treats first....wins!!!

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Marshmallow Surprise
Marshmallow Lane Game

Right before I was ready to post these activities, I found this wonderful new blog called Busy Bee Speech! One of her great activities is ALSO a FREEBIE with the same premise as Marshmallow Surprise...she calls it Hot Cocoa Speech. I guess great minds think alike! Check out her page and activities. She has some nice freebies as well!

Enjoy and happy talking!

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Tree-Pinecone Word Associations game

Looking for a winter themed word association game? Well here is one just for you. Have your children match up the pine cone with the pine tree for the two words that "go together"! You can work on answering ?s and problem solving by having them answer "why" those words go together! There may be two words your child seems to think goes together. My rule is, if you can reason its association and the reason is logical, then its correct!

You can see that each page is full of words that belong in a specific category. To further expand the activity you can talk about categories the objects belong in, or the functions or attributes the two objects have in common. I added a blank page at the end for if you want to make your own words as well. Simple fun game!

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Find the FREE version at the bottom of this blog. Enjoy!