MONSTERS 2023!! & SPATIAL CONCEPTS
HALLOWEEN EDITION AND FREEBIES!
Hi All! It’s MONSTER WEEK! SPATIAL CONCEPT CHART FREE FOR 2 DAYS ONLY! (SEE LINK BELOW UNDER FREEBIES) I just love kids’ reactions to activities this time every year! The Monsters Jumping on the Bed rhyme was perfect for assessing spatial concepts! I love using the Super Duper phone with this activity. I have this big toy bed when I used a large doll house. You can assess concepts 2 ways - 1. hide a monster, e.g. under the bed and ask child to find monster under, etc or 2. have child hide monster under the bed. Where did you hide monster? You want to assess understanding AND word retrieval. For spatial concepts big pieces of toy furniture or the play environment work well! Parents can follow through with spatial concepts at home too- I like to suggest 2 concepts at a time - I don’t do IN and ON together because they sound so similar and kids often get confused. After assessment, Whatever concept I work on, I teach the skill first in at least 3 trials. I also use spatial concepts for increasing linguistic complexity of sentences, including more critical elements. An example of a linguistically complex sentence would be …. Put the blue monster with 3 eyes under the bed (3 critical elements) I created a spatial concepts checklist which is a fav right now. I date and color code when child knows the concept. Yellow dot paint is used for the initial date. I like the KISS approach - KEEP IT SIMPLE SPEECHIE! This SPATIAL CONCEPTS checklist is FREE for 2 days!! Check out 5 Little Monsters by Super Simple Songs!
2 FUN DATES: OCTOBER 17 - TODAY IS NATIONAL PASTA DAY!
OCTOBER 26 - NATIONAL PUMPKIN DAY! Check out IT’S PUMPKIN DAY MOUSE BOOK COMPANION & CRAFTS - it includes a color & b&w book you can print!
Please feel free to email me any time at ricki@preschoolspeechieplus.com
CHECK OUT MY WATERPROOF TEARPROOF VINYL STICKERS & KEY CHAINS TOO! This is just a sampling of stickers and key chains (key chains come with carabiner). i added key chains for Speech, OT & PT which can be used in class too! Staff can know what service the student is receiving! I AM HAPPY TO MAKE SMALL CHANGES & CUSTOM IMAGES TOO!
Here are some NEW AND OLD FREEBIES - new items are a MONSTER GLOVE CRAFT - eyes & mouths included and SPATIAL CONCEPT chart (FREE for 2 DAYS!) just in case you missed them last time! Click on images for links.
Thank you ALL! I do my best to stay positive but this has been one heck of a week! Bucky, our Siberian Forest Cat somehow snuck out of the house when a client came in for Speech and was missing for 32 hours! We put up his picture in the neighborhood, registered on the Ring missing pets service and searched for him everywhere. Luckily at 10:00 at night a neighbor spotted him and we found him!! Also, we have 2 relatives who live in Israel - Telaviv and Carmiel-I pray for them every day Anyway , wishing everyone good health and be safe!
Regards Ricki
Click on images above for links and FREEBIES!!