Ready, Set, Spring

We had the first day of Spring (although it doesn't feel like it quite yet). But I'm hopeful that it is right around the corner. In preparation for the warmer weather, Ready, Set, Spring is ready.! This book fits into the Ready, Set series. There are two versions. A manipulative version and an easy assembly version.

The manipulative version includes a blank template to allow your child to fill in the blanks. You can then copy the story and send it home for review. The manipulative version also requires more Velcro, laminating and scissor skills.

The easy assembly version does not have the blank story template. It also requires less time for overall assembly.

For some visual cues on how to assemble the books, take a look at my Ready, Set Christmas post. I was able to take some pictures of the final product.

Grab Ready Set Spring (manipulative version) at our TPT Store
Grab Ready, Set, Spring (easy assembly version) at our TPT Store

Here is an example of the Manipulative version

Below is the blank template where you will Velcro the various icons.

Below are some examples of the icon pages

An example of the easy assembly version is below. It does not include the blank template page.

Easter Bingo

I created another bingo activity for the upcoming Easter holiday. This activity includes 6 different bingo cards and corresponding bingo chips. Use this as a reinforcement activity while working on speech or language goals. It can also be used to target seasonal vocabulary.

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Where's the Bunny?

Since I had easy access to my template from Pot of Gold Prepositions, I decided to make a few more booklets. This book follows the same structure as the St. Patrick's day activity. There are 12 vocabulary cards, and 12 fill-in-the blank cards. These two different versions allow you to target objectives depending on your child's current skill level. This activity also includes a reinforcement game. For every correct answer, Velcro or glue the Easter egg into the basket.

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 Here is an example of the vocabulary cards

Here is an example of the fill-in-the-blank cards

As a reinforcemet activity, glue or Velcro the Easter eggs to the basket

Pot of Gold Prepositions

Before I get started, St. Patrick's day is right around the corner, so here is a quick roundup of the activities currently available on the TPT store:

St. Patrick's Day Bingo: Grab This Freebie at the TPT Store 

Ready, Set, St. Patrick's Day: Grab This at the TPT Store

Pot of Gold Prepositions: Grab This at the TPT Store

Pot of Gold Prepositions 

A few of my kids are working on prepositions and I just wanted to keep things fresh with some new activities. I made this St. Patrick’s Day activity to target key prepositions (over, under, on top, in front, next to, around, in the middle, behind, between, beside, out, in). There are 11 pages total which include:

Direction pages

12 vocabulary cards targeting prepositions

12 fill-in the blank cards (Once familiar with the vocabulary, children can fill in sentence forms with the correct preposition)

12 coins/empty pot (Use the coins and pot as a reinforcement activity. For every correct answer, glue or Velcro a gold coin on the pot)

Grab Pot of Gold Prepositions at the TPT Store 

Here is an example of the vocabulary cards

 

 Here is an example of the vocabulary cards

Here is an example of the fill-in-the-blank cards

Add coins to the pot of gold for each correct answer

St. Patrick's Day Bingo

Valentine’s Bingo appeared to be a pretty popular, so I created St. Patrick’s Day Bingo to get ready for March.  It’s a quick and easy reinforcement game you can use while targeting various speech and language goals. You can also use the Bingo game to work on seasonal vocabulary. The activity includes directions, bingo chips, and 6 different bingo cards.

Grab this freebie at the TPT store 

Valentine Letters

I found a cute little Valentine’s mailbox at the Target one spot this weekend and got inspired to make my own Valentine letters. I included a vocabulary exercise to go with this activity, but there are several different ways you can use these little love letters.

I plan on mailing my kiddos their targets by attaching Velcro to the back. However, you can use these cards for just about anything. Attach your own articulation or language cards to the back using Velcro or paperclips. Also, if you laminate, you can use a dry erase marker to write out targets. 

This activity includes 

-12 Valentine’s themed letters (Three pages with 4 letters per page).

-Valentine Vocabulary Sheet

* Just for a fun little FYI, most of the towns are (or were) real places in the United States.

I am posting two versions of this activity. In one version (Small Letter), the cards are small enough to fit inside the mailbox I found at Target. The second (Large Letter) version can be used for those larger articulation/language cards. If you don’t have your own mailbox, throw some stickers on a Kleenex box and call it a day.

Small Letter Version:

Grab the Small Version at the TPT Store 

Large Letter Version:  

Grab the Large Version at the TPT Store

 

Here are the mailboxes from Target

I grabbed this photo from:

 http://4littlefergusons.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/016.jpg

Here is the small version (These fit inside the Target One Spot mailboxes)

The Large Letter version is below

 

Both versions come with the same Valentine’s vocabulary page.