Speech-Language Activities at Home September Dear families, You will find a total of 4 activities to complete during the month of September. It is recommended that you try one per week, and each activity may be completed more than once. The skills included in each activity have been chosen by Mrs. Guyer and Mrs. Meade. If the activity is challenging for your child, you may want to only try part of it or complete it more than once. It may also be necessary for you to model the response and have your child repeat it after you. If the activity is relatively easy for your child, take a look at the extension activity on each page (“Extend the activity” or “Also try”) to make it more challenging. | have also included target speech sounds/words that you will want to be sure your child is using when talking during these activities. If you have any questions about the activities, please contact Mrs. Meade at Imeade@oves.org or during school hours at (315) 653-7218. Activity 1: Put a Sticker on Your Knee Target Sounds: Target words: At “sticker” Activity 2: How Many Fingers Target Sounds: Target words: It, /sf “fingers” - making sure they add the final /s/to make the word plural when talking about more than one. Activity 3: Sit Through a Story - Target Sounds: Target words: /k/, [st/ Book, story Activity 4: Hide the Toy Target Sounds: Target words: Sit “find” or “found”Put a sticker on Your Knee Daily Routine: Playing Practice: Vocabulary (body parts), following direction Activity: Grab a sheet of stickers and practice body parts by following directions. i Example: “Put the dinosaur on your knee.” Does your child know: nose, ear, knee, hand, arm, leg, foot, toe, tummy/stomach, finger, cheek, back, head, chin, ear, shoulder, elbow, wrist? Extend the activity: Have your child give the direction and you put the stickers on your body. Can you give two directions? How Many Fingers? When to play: Anytime Practice: Understanding amounts 1-5 | Activity: Help your child learn number concepts by holding up fingers 1-5. + Counting other body parts, eyes, ears, nose, knees, punting objects Such as 76, snack Huns, e Tip: This is a great activity because it can be done anywhere. Play this game the next time you're stuck ina line or waiting foran | GO appointment. | | | Also try: | | | | “There te —z— Pleces of bread." | Sample sertenas:" T see ase - = have Knees.”Sit Through a Story | : | Daily Routine: Reading Practice: Attention, early reading Activity: Sitting through a whole story can be hard for some kids. Here are some steps to building up their attention + Talk about the pages instead of reading the words + Ifyour child will only sit through 2 pages try reading 3 then move on to something else. Keep adding pages. + Let your child pick the book + Try books with real photos + Look for books about things they are | interested in. | + Make a special reading area where your __ child enjoys spending time. — Exterid the actinty: ASK who", "what “Where” gereshons thrrvghact Whe Stor). Encourage complete Serrerias When answer Hide the Toy Daily Routine: Anytime Practice: Basic concepts, locations (ex. in, on, under, next to), following directions Activity: Choose a small toy to hide. Give your child directions for where to hide it, “Go hide it behind the bananas”. Then go look for it together. Did they understand? Also try: + Taking turns - Have your child tell you were to hide the toy. + Hide multiple toys (4 dinosaurs) and go hunt for them together. Tip: This is a great activity to use high interest toys. If they love trains use a train to keep their attention.