Brrr…It's Cold Outside
Tips for Keeping Your Kids busy and Practicing their Speech and Language Inside
Outside, it has felt a little like we are living in a freezer lately, but hopefully, everyone has been able to stay warm and toasty inside. Your students are working hard on correcting their speech sounds. I have noticed a little regression in the great progress they were making before break though, so make sure you keep them practicing those sounds they are working so hard on. The kids are probably getting or will be getting a little antsy since it’s been too cold to go outside safely, and it will take a bit to get back into routines they had before break. Hopefully we’ll be back to warmer temperatures soon, but until then, here are some ideas for keeping your kids busy-inside!
*Have them look around for old magazines or newspapers or even objects and put together a collage of items or pictures with the sound they are working on or just work on vocabulary, making sure they know the names of everything.
* You can have a snowball fight inside by having them write random words or winter words with their sound on small pieces of paper, wad them up and throw them like snowballs. You can then talk with them about where each of them landed (under the table, beside the lamp, in the center of the floor, etc.). Then you could make them crab walk to pick them all up. After picking them up, let them “shoot hoops” to throw the papers away in the trash can.
*Assign them a room in the house and ask them to write down and name all of the objects that have their sound. I know these don’t seem like much, but any practice is better than none, and it will keep their hands from being too idle!
* Write down lists of words with their sounds in them and keep them on the refrigerator or on the mirror in the bathroom, and whenever they have a little down time or say “I’m bored” have them grab the list and say their words 5 times each. You can also have them do this on those late start or early out days. If you need lists of words, I’d be glad to send some home!
Please don’t hesitate to call if you have questions or concerns, and try to stay warm!
Thanks again for loaning us your kids!
Kim Knight
Speech-Language Pathologist
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