Disclaimer: The items reviewed in this post were supplied to me by the great people at The Gruffalo for me to review and keep at no cost. The opinions and thoughts are mine alone. This post contains affiliate links. Last week I shared some fun activities we did to go along with The Gruffalo. Today [...]
This month for the Virtual Book Club for Kids, we are spotlighting Julia Donaldson. Julia is a British author whose books include The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child and one of our favorite books around here, Room on the Broom. Although she is best-known for her picture books, Julia also writes longer novels, plays [...]
I am very very very slowly unpacking our new home. It is getting there but I am looking forward to getting back into blogging! Today, I wanted to share with you a few Speech & Language Activities for Easter! Just click on the image below to take you to the post! [...]
Welcome to the February Virtual Book Club! This month our spotlight author is the great Dr. Seuss! I went back and forth on which book to use, so we went to the bookstore and I came across a book I had been wanting to try with my own daughter. As we started reading [...]
As some of you know, I am taking part in the Virtual Book Club for Kids this year with several other fantastic bloggers. You can see my posts from September and October for more Virtual Book Club Fun. (Things got crazy in November with Holidays and Birthdays and I wasn’t able to [...]
I became familiar with these books several months ago when my friend ( and fellow SLP) Kristy reviewed them on her blog Hear My Hands. I was thrilled when the author of these books Don, who goes by Grandpa Don, and I had the chance to talk via Facebook and he offered to [...]
It’s time for the Virtual Book Club for Kids! This month our author is Amy Krouse Rosenthal. This was a new author to me until last month and let me tell you, her books are AWESOME! We have read Duck! Rabbit!, The OK Book, Little Oink, and Chopsticks. And I didn’t realize [...]
Welcome to another post for our Virtual Book Club for Kids! Today is also the day of our blog-hop launch so you can check out (or link up) all sorts of great activities by our spotlight author, Lois Ehlert. Last Week I shared about Building Speech and Language with Top Cat and today [...]
If you missed my post recently I am joining up with a bunch of awesome other bloggers and taking part in the Virtual Book Club for Kids this year! Our spotlight author for September is Lois Ehlert and I checked out a few of her books from the library this month and used [...]
Well it is September..which means it is approaching my most favorite time of year…FALL! I am feeling quite refreshed after a little blogging/computer break (more on that later) but I wanted to stop in for a quick announcement that I am SO excited about! I am joining several other bloggers and am taking [...]
What is figurative language? Who may have a hard time understanding it and why is it such an important thing for our kids to understand? Finally, what kinds of activities can promote skills in this area of language? Ms. Sohan from Let’s Talk Speech and Language brings us an EXCELLENT post today which [...]
Today’s post by Lorie is a fun one. If you’ve been following along a while, you know I love to use books in my therapy sessions. I have been known to have my little ones write their own stories as well. Read on for tips on how to help your preschooler be an [...]
As SLPs, we are often sneaking in mini side lessons into our sessions. Many of the children we work with are at risk for having delays in literacy skills. Hanna shares with us some ideas she is learning in graduate school to become a speech pathologist. Enjoy! ~Katie As a speech-language pathologist, you [...]
It’s summer…which means heat, beaches, vacations…so we have been reading books and doing crafts that revolve around the ocean and it’s life! This month we are loving The Rainbow Fish and have been doing some fun activities to go along with it. First up? A simple (but fun) torn-paper craft. I did this [...]
I am thrilled to share this guest post by Jodie from Growing Book by Book all about activities to help promote phonological awareness skills in our children and students! Phonological awareness is the ability to hear differences in the ways words sound. Just as young children need to hear language before they can [...]
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