The Speech Pie YouTube!

 We have a YouTube!  Click HERE to check out The Speech Pie for stories and speech activities.

Financial Literacy through Food!

Here are some activities to use along with the Sorting Pie and Cash Register Videos.  Thank you to DonorsChoose, the Charles Schwab Foundation, and generous Donors for supporting projects like these everyday!  We have enjoyed them so much and we hope you do as well!

Activities Click HERE

Videos Click HERE

Talk 4 Overlay Click HERE

The Speech Pie Introduction

Zoom Around the Room-Colors

We finished our first Zoom Around the Room Quest-Colors!
HERE is a link to our board.  You should be able to use it like a communication device and navigate through the slides.  We will post the next one as soon as we collect all the slides!  Way to go Rockets!

Support Us Online!

While we try to adapt our resources to reach students online, many teachers have provided so many useful resources already.  Help us support our students and fellow teachers by contributing to our TpT page.  This helps us get wonderful resources to help our students now with distance learning and when we can get back to face to face instruction.  

THANK YOU as always for supporting education!

Let's Celebrate!

We have a lot to be thankful for like...

TEACHERS- Happy Teacher Appreciation Week

NURSES- Happy Nurses' Week
MOTHERS- Happy Mother's Day

AUDIOLOGISTS and SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS- Happy Better Hearing & Speech Month

Click the image to learn more about ASHA's theme for this year's BHSM:
Communication at Work

EVERFI

I was introduced to EVERFI through Donors Choose, where we participated in The Compassion Project.  It's a wonderful digital resource for educators, parents, and students.  Below is more information for anyone interested.      

Parents,
EVERFI has interactive digital game-based programs, filled with lessons on the skills students need for life — skills in social-emotional learning, health and wellness, financial capability, and career readiness —all of which students can access from home. These resources are always available at no cost to our schools. Instructions for students to get started are below

STEP 1: Go to https://everfi.com/k-12/parent-remote-learning/, click "Get Access" then “Find Your School and Register”. Search for California then your child's school. 

STEP 2: Click “Next” and fill in the fields. Students will be asked to create a username & password (write this down!). 

Once their login is created, students will have access to all courses for their grade band (Elementary, Middle & High).

Schoolhouse Rock

How fun is this throwback?  HERE is the complete series of Schoolhouse Rock Videos.  

Anxiety

The Counseling Teacher has a wonderful blog post about "How to Relieve Anxiety During Times of Uncertainty."  I've seen her image below floating around social media recently and I agree with others that it's a wonderful visual tool to share at this time.  

Boom Learning

I've jumped on the boom cards bandwagon and created an account.  I think I may have one boom card so far that I've personally made.  I'll try to get some better cards up there soon, but if you're interested HERE is a link.  I'm excited to learn more!

Super Simple Songs

Super Simple Songs are super simple and super cute!  WARNING... these songs may get stuck in your head. 

HERE is the YouTube link as well.

Communication Boards for Pre-K Rocks

We are trying to get some communication boards that can be paired with the videos on Pre-K Rocks.  More will be added shortly.  Some ideas on how to utilize the boards is opening them on a tablet or computer, so the student can point to the pictures to request the desired videos.  Additionally, the slides can be printed if needed.
Click HERE to be taken to the slides.

Pre-K the New Way

My awesome coworker, Mr. Eli has created a blog to stay connected with his students and parents at this time.  He is such a wonderful teacher and knows his way around technology... Google Slides, etc.  His blog will be such a great resource for those needing Pre-K supports during this time.
Check out Pre-K the New Way HERE. 

Support Mrs. Eli's Donors Choose HERE.

Speech and Language Songs

We are in a Teletherapy Bootcamp Web Conference today and these songs were being showed before the conference began.  They are great to help with Core Vocabulary and much more.
HERE is the informational video and channel.  

Virtual Family Paint Night

Our talented artist friend, Brittney, has so thoughtfully posted her March 2020 Family Fridays Paint Night class.  Thank you, Brittney for creating and sharing this video with us all.  We appreciate you!  Happy painting!

Acrylic paint colors recommended: white, black, dark brown, yellow, blue, sky blue, purple, and hot pink, and optional glitter (if you dare 😉)

Paint brushes recommended: large flat brush, medium flat brush (angled), detail brush, medium round brush, and fan brush

Braille and VI Ideas

A teacher friend of mine created a "cheat sheet" for us on the CHALKBOARD 😂 for those of us that are helping students with Braille.  I still find that I reference it often for reminders when I'm helping students or creating materials.  Here is an example of how she set it up for us at school.  It is so helpful.  (I will try to link the word documents as soon as I figure out how to do that).  Below is a cupcake/muffin tin idea.  I just painted the baseballs to help illustrate the "cheat sheet."  Students can move the baseball around the tin (aka braille cell) to practice their letters.  Paths to Literacy has some more examples on how to use this strategy.  The last image shows how to use the tin with containers to help students explore textures and sounds.  

Georgia Aquarium

Virtual Field Trip time to the Georgia Aquarium where you can see the...

Ocean Voyager
California Sea Lion
Puffin Underwater
Indo-Pacific Barrier Reef
African Penguin
Piranha
Jelly

... oh my!

Kinder Owls

One of my former coworkers and sweet teacher friends created the YouTube channel Kinder Owls.  She has such a wonderful way of explaining writing prompts and reading stories.  I love how she pauses and gives her students time to reflect on the questions she is asking.  

Quozio

I was recently introduced to Quozio through a Linkedin Learning course.  You can make quotes stand out through various background options.

Very thankful today and always to get to work with such a supportive and dedicated team!

Support Ms. Lynch's Donors Choose HERE.
Support Ms. Sistler's Donors Choose HERE.

Support Ms. Speech's Donors Choose HERE.
Support Ms. Clara's Donors Choose HERE.

Support Ms. Fortun's Donors Choose HERE.

Support Ms. Ward's Donors Choose HERE.

 

Create Your Own Dominoes...

game, not pizza.  HERE is a template that will create many categories of Dominoes with the images and words to help with vocabulary development.  Other templates for games include word searches, crosswords, board games, bingo, mazes, and spelling.