Welcome Back!

Speech at the ECC is back in full swing.  It has been great seeing all of my friends come back to school as well as meeting new friends!  The first few weeks focused on different types of "getting to know you" activities that I think we all enjoyed.  We have moved on now and are working on our first theme: FOOTBALL!!!

We have been working on all kinds of fun activities related to football.  Here are some of the things we have been working on!

In preschool, we have been reading books about football, learning football vocabulary, and sorting by size (big, medium, small).

Coloring footballs by size: big, medium, and small

Our book of the week: Little Football

In Kindergarten and 1st Grade, we are also working on vocabulary.  We are solving riddles such as "It's full of air and mostly brown, but in this sport it isn't round."  The students love figuring out these riddles.  We are also working on not only learning the football vocabulary but also how to describe and expand our definitions of different football vocabulary.

Football is our "word of the week"

Working on our word of the week: describing where it is found, what category it belongs in, drawing a picture, and thinking of sentences that use our word

Learning new football vocabulary such as jersey, cleats, helmet, pads, goal post, and football

This week has been a fun start to our football theme!  More fun is to come as we continue learning about football next week.  Please check back often to see the great activities we are working to improve our speech and language skills!

Cassie

Learning all about transportation at the ECC!

This has been a fun week in speech-language therapy at the ECC.  We have been learning about vehicles and modes of transportation.  The kids love anything that moves so this is right up their alley!   Here are some of the fun activities that we have been doing throughout the week.

We started the week making a book that introduced all different vehicles including car, boat, plane, dump truck, digger, train, van, fire truck, taxi, and hot air balloon.

We also played a train board game where the students answered different types of wh-questions including who, what, where, when, and why.

Towards the end of this week, we started making a train.  We used our describing skills and help from the EET (Expanding Expression Tool) to think of attributes to describe a train.  We will be finishing up our trains next week.  This activity was a big hit with the kindergarten train lovers.

Next week we will be continuing our fun transportation unit and I can't wait to see what the kids think of the activities I have planned for them!

Cassie

Monsters visit the Speech Room!

These last few weeks at the ECC have been fun in speech and language.  We have been going crazy with MONSTERS!  We have been using monsters to practices our size concepts (big/medium/small), follow multi-step directions, make descriptions, expand vocabulary, and answer a variety of question types.  The students seem to love the little monsters, it has made therapy very motivating.  Here are some pictures of our activities!

I look forward to seeing many of you at Parent-Teacher Conferences this week!  Please feel free to contact me at any time!  

Cassie

Football Week in Speech/Language Therapy!

Hi everyone!

This past week was a fun week in speech and language.  We learned all about football!  We used a football and football helmet to follow directions and practice our location concepts such as under, behind, and on top.  We learned all about different football vocabulary words and played games to practice the new words that we had learned.

We also practiced our size concepts: big, medium, and small all while following silly directions.

The kindergarten friends had a great time learning to describe and expand their thoughts and ideas about the vocabulary that they had learned throughout the past two weeks using the EET (Expanding Expression Tool).

The next few weeks we will be focusing on Fall in therapy.  Don't forget to check back to see what we are up to!

Cassie

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to school everyone!  We are all so excited to be back and to see our students again after a fun and relaxing summer!  My name is Cassie Spicer and I am the Speech-Language Pathologist at the Coal City Early Childhood Center.  This is my 9th year as an SLP and my 4th year with Coal City.  This school year I will be working with students in preschool and in kindergarten.  I look forward to seeing my old friends as well as meeting new friends this year.

I hope you enjoy visiting our blog and catching up on the fun activities in the therapy rooms across the district.  We love our jobs and can't wait to share the fun with you!

Cassie