ESY Lesson Plans
Dear Families,
We are now in Week 4 of ESY and it is our final week! The four weeks have gone by very quickly! I have enjoyed working with your child this summer!
This week, our theme in speech is ‘Transportation.’ The Learning Through Play handout focuses on BIKES. Vocabulary: ride, pedal, handlebars, tricycle, bicycle. If you are able to go on a bike ride, play “I Spy.” Give your child clues that include attribute words. Ex: Stop in front of the brown house or ride your bike to the yard with the big trees. Target the concepts Fast/Slow. Speech Activity: Write 10 speech words on the ground with chalk. Practice riding over the speech words while you practice saying each word.
Stories of the Week: Toot Toot Beep Beep by Emma Garcia and Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site. I have recorded Toot Toot Beep Beep so you can follow along. In the story Toot Toot Beep Beep you can use the visual picture supports attached. We will be focusing on color words and producing two word phrases to label vehicles (e.g. "green jeep", "red car").
You can listen to the story Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuIg-rqpAg4 Try answering some wh-questions (e.g. WHO is the story about, WHAT are the trucks building, WHERE do the trucks go at night, WHEN does the crane go to sleep or WHY are the trucks tired?).
Language Parking Lots: Attached you will find a variety of language parking lots (pronouns, actions, object functions, wh-questions and sequencing). Ask your child questions to have them either identify named concepts (e.g. park the car on someone who is sleeping) or label concepts (e.g. what is he/she doing?). Allow your child to use toy cars to drive to the different parking spots.
Songs of the Week: We have two songs this week. Our first song is called We All Go Traveling By: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSw50Jw0H34 It is a fun song that labels different transportation items and the sounds they make. It uses a lot of repetition!
Our second song is Wheels on the Bus. You can follow along with the recorded song below or listen on youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_04ZrNroTo. There is also a song board you can use at home.
While playing with toy cars, you can target STOP and GO. Have toy cars speed across the floor or down a ramp (you can make one with cardboard) while targeting the word GO. Have the cars STOP. Model these words for your child. Allow wait time. Stop the toy car, look at your child to see if he/she will request "go." Use phrases such as one, two, three....(wait)..."Goooo!"
GAMES TO PLAY FOR FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS: RED LIGHT/GREEN LIGHT
https://childhood101.com/games-for-kids-red-light-green-light/
SPEECH SOUND ARTICULATION PARKING LOT:
Directions:
1. Give your child a parking lot
2. Use with small cars or pictures of cars
3. Hold up the matching picture have the child find it on his/her parking lot
4. Once the child parks on the specified picture, say, “where did you park?
**Sentence strip helper for your child to practice speech sounds at the phrase/sentence level
**Use the sentence strip cards to help your child remember their targeted response at the word, phrase, or sentence level. Point to the applicable pictures/words to help the child recall the target response.
Thank you to all of the parents for logging onto the google meets and using the speech materials at home each week! I hope you all enjoy the rest of the summer!
Stay safe and healthy,
Caitlin Carney
Speech-Language Pathologist
7/20-7/23: Welcome to Week 3 of ESY! This week we are taking a “trip to the zoo” in speech!
Learning Through Play: Zoo If you are not able to make it to a zoo this summer, you may choose to target some zoo vocabulary and concepts while playing with your child. You can make a pretend cage out of a box or a laundry basket. Practice feeding the animals, washing the animals, and putting the animals to sleep in their cages. Give your child 1-2 step commands with the animals (e.g. “put the zebra in the cage” or "feed the gorilla then give me the gorilla").
Story of the week: Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann. You can listen to my recorded video of Goodnight Gorilla or follow along here on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kl8S61bCn4
This story allows for many fun opportunities to support your child’s language development through play. You may hide zoo animal toys or put the attached pictures in a dark shoebox to create the concept of “night” and have your child find the animals using a flashlight. Give your child the phrase “I found the____” as a sentence starter for discovering and labeling each animal. You can also do this same activity hiding the zoo animal toys or pictures around your home and using a flashlight.
For students working on sequencing, you can help your child sequence the animals from the story in the order in which they were released from their cages. You may also have your child practice retelling the story using the attached vocabulary pictures of the zookeeper and animals, or using zoo animal toys you may have in your home.
Goodnight Gorilla also offers many opportunities for targeting vocabulary:
- Have your child point to pictures that you name
- Have your child name the pictures that you point to
- Take turns describing animals: size, color, texture
- Expand Utterances (e.g. child: “giraffe” Adult: “tall giraffe”).
- Ask your child a variety of wh-questions related to the story such as who/what/when/where.
For higher level language learners, ask your child to make predictions and inferences such as, “what might happen next? or “Why do you think the zookeeper’s wife took the animals back to the zoo?”
Snack activity: Practice requesting items using animal crackers/cookies or other desired foods. If your child is imitating, label the object and allow wait time for a response. If your child is making requests using a single word, expand by modeling, “more crackers.”
For our multi-sensory language learners, consider watching this video, singing along with the song and imitating the animal actions. This is also a great movement break in between activities! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IulnEx2Cn7M
Song of the week: Five little Monkeys swinging from a tree. You can watch my recorded fingerplay song or watch the youtube version here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy0Zr_UrFp0 You may choose to print the attached song board to follow along while modeling the actions for your child to imitate. You may also print and cut the attached pictures that follow along with the song. Use a paper towel roll and cut green paper to make a tree, then attach the monkeys to the tree using paper clips. Allow your child to take the monkeys off as the alligator "snaps" the monkeys right out of the tree!
As always, please reach out if you need anything! Have a wonderful week!
Caitlin Carney
Speech-Language Pathologist
Dear Families,
Welcome to Week 2 of ESY! This week in speech, our theme will be “The Outdoors.”
Learning through Play: The learning through play handout this week talks about speech and language opportunities that can occur while having a picnic outside. You can talk about the materials you brought on the picnic or describe them and make it a guessing game! Vocabulary: basket, blanket, park, pack, munch, ants. Concept Focus: Empty/full (talk about how the plates or containers change from full to empty). Speech activity: Think of some foods to bring on the picnic that have your speech sound!
This week, some of the students are studying fairytales. Little Red Riding Hood carries a picnic basket filled with goodies to take to her grandmother’s house. What would you put in your picnic basket? Talk about or draw the different foods in your basket. Then think about sorting the foods. Are there any meats in your basket? Vegetables? Fruits? Sort the foods into different categories.
Look and Listen: You might take a walk to have a picnic this week, or you might take a walk around your neighborhood. Follow along with the AAC Core Interactive book ‘Look Outside’ while you look and listen to different things in the outdoors. Can you find (a bee, a butterfly, a frog, a snail, or a spider)? Talk about the things you SEE outside and listen for different sounds you might HEAR (a sprinkler, a barking dog, a beeping car, a buzzing bee).
Our story of the week is “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” by Michael Rosen. You can watch the recorded video of the story on Youtube as the author performs it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gyI6ykDwds
For our multi-sensory language learners, consider watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzIcu6tbEko. You can sing along with the song and imitate the actions. This movement break in between activities allows your child to use his or her imagination. You can model the actions for your child to imitate!
Please review the vocabulary sheets with your child. You can ask him/her to point to pictures that you name or describe as well as ask your child to name the people and locations for you from the story. You can also put the characters on popsicle sticks and encourage your child to retell the story, sing the song, or use the visual supports as you watch the recorded story. You may pause the video and ask who, what, when, where, and why questions.
In addition, a sequencing activity has been included. This will also aid your child in retelling the story. It will be a way for you to ask your child to retell events within the story in a sequential manner using “first, next, then, and last.”
A CORE board was provided to follow along with the story of the week. This is an augmentative communication strategy that allows you to aid in stimulating your child’s language. You may cut out each strip and follow along as you listen to the story. This is also a way of helping your child learn to expand utterances, organize verbal expression, or use pictures as an alternative to spoken language.
SONG OF THE WEEK: Five Green and Speckled Frogs- I recorded a video of Five Green and Speckled frogs story/song activity. If you have access to print the language board, you can follow along with the song by pointing to the pictures as I read the story. You can also listen to the ‘super simple song’ version of five green and speckled frogs on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtX8yVEF0-w
It was nice meeting many of you last week! If you have not reached out to me to schedule a time for a 1:1 speech session, please email me and we can set up a session for this week!
Please reach out if you have any questions or need any additional activities!
Have a great week everyone!
Welcome to Week 1 of ESY! Use the “Under the Sea” ideas and attachments below for some speech and language practice this week!
Story of the week: Fidgety Fish and Friends by Paul Bright **This story targets ocean animals (fish, shark, angelfish, crab, octopus, jellyfish, starfish, snail, sea horse, puffer fish, and turtle. For some of the children, you may want to stop the video and ask WH-Questions (e.g. What does the fish like to do? Where are the ocean animals? Who is looking at the shark?). I SEE THE___ ocean I Spy activity can be used to work on carrier phrases and the spatial concept (in).
Learning Through Play Handout: This handout provides opportunities for your child to target many speech and language concepts through play. If you head to the beach this summer, you can talk about the steps to build a sandcastle using the words FIRST, NEXT, and LAST. You can also use spatial concepts such as (on, under, between, etc). VOCABULARY: sand, ocean, build, dig, shovel, swimming, and shell CONCEPT FOCUS: Hot/Cold Find 3 things that are hot and 3 things that are cold (this can also be done at home).
SONG OF THE WEEK: Baby Shark- You can watch this song on Youtube in both Spanish and English. If you have access to print the baby shark story with visuals, you can allow your child to make a choice during the song (e.g. who should we sing about, baby shark-mommy shark, daddy shark). Allow your child to touch their choice, or hand you the picture to make the choice.
**English Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w
**Spanish Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ndX8dQ7Ik
Bubbles: You can use bubbles to work on many different skills! Your child can use bubbles to practice turn-taking and waiting their turn. You can withhold bubbles or the bubble wand until you have gained your child’s attention. Bubbles are definitely great to help build communication skills such as making requests, or commenting.
Ocean action Cards: Leap like a dolphin, scuttle like a crab, flap like a seagull, swim like a fish, stretch like a starfish, swim like a fish, wiggle like an octopus, glide like a stingray, chomp like a shark, jump like a seahorse, and float like a jellyfish
Ocean Animal Sort: Which animals live in the ocean? Which animals do not live in the ocean?