September AAC Calendar

 

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September	2020

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
		1	2	3	4	5
		September is here!	What is your favorite thing about yourself?	Count how many jumps you can jump with a jump rope	Blow different sizes of bubbles	Play “I Spy”
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Play and seek with your child’s stuffed animal (hide the animal on your turn)	Labor Day	Build a tall block tower and knock it down!	a Non-Fiction book	Go on a listening outside	Draw a picture of your favorite toy	Look through old family pictures and talk about them
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
your family by cooking breakfast together	Go on a letter hunt, what letter you find most	Read a book with a wild animal on the cover	Play your favorite board game	Draw a picture of your best friend	Mix different paint colors together and see what happens	a favorite movie together
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Get a paintbrush and a cup of water and water paint on the sidewalk!	Draw a picture of the planets in our Solar System	First Day of Fall	Look outside, do the trees look different?	What does the sky like today?	Read a book under the Early Books section of your talker!	Create something cool with playdoh!
27	28	29	30
Sing a song you heard on the radio	Get a mirror and draw a self portrait	Collect different colored leaves. Talk about their differences	September is finished!

Fourth of July

Happy Fourth of July Week!  Here are some cute crafts (from SoCal Feild Trips) and backyard game ideas (from Six Clever Sisters) to do with kids. Click on the links below. 

Crafts

Backyard Games

Happy Fourth of July!

Here are some cute less then five minute activities to do with your child to promote language development from Speech Language at Home.  Check them out!

July Calendars (English / Spanish separate)

August Calendars (English / Spanish separate

AAC Virtual Conference

Here is an opportunity for therapists and parents.   

AAC in the Cloud virtual conference.  

Renowned speakers have donated their time to make this a completely FREE event as a way to educate staff and families about AAC.  Check out the schedule at the link below, if you are interested!

Click the link below:

AAC Virtual Conference

Father's Day

Hi All!,
Father's Day is this Sunday.  Here is a cute Father's Day book from the Measured Mom blog you can print off for your child to complete. 

Father's Day Book

Summer Activity Book

Here is a great resource from Evan Moor for summer activities.  Click on the link to access the summer activities sampler.

Download and share the free Daily Summer Activities Sampler for grades PreK–8

Legos

LEGO CHALLENGE

Lego has some great weekly challenges for kids set up on their website to do throughout the summer.  Here is this weeks!

Kids love when you build with them.  Some questions you can ask when you are building are:

What color is your block?

Which block is bigger?

Which block is smaller?

What are you building/creating?

Who would live/visit your building/creation??

Who's is the tallest/shortest?

Where would you see your building/creation??

What types of blocks did you use to build your building/creation?

Let's sort all of our blocks by color/shape.

Let's count how many blocks we used.

Pretend play with your child and model/act out conversations

For more information and challenges each week check out their website.

https://lego.build/LEGOLetsBuildTogether

Wheelchair Accessible Outdoor Playhouse for Kids

"Step 2 has launched the All Around Playtime Patio with Canopy Playhouse, a wheelchair accessible outdoor playhouse for kids, so all kids can enjoy playing together."

https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/137611/wheelchair-accessible-playhouse/

Last Week of School!

Happy Last Week of School!

  Here are some great websites of ideas of games you can play over to promote speech and language development.  

http://www.playingwithwords365.com/15-best-games-for-speech-language-social-skills-development/

https://www.tandemspeechtherapy.com/2020/01/16/best-games-for-speech/

May is Better Hearing & Speech Month

Here is a link to ASHA where you can find tons of information on speech and hearing.

https://www.asha.org/bhsm/2019-BHSM-Highlights/

Happy Friday Parents!

Here is a cute idea from the Holderness Family for a Spirit Week for Family Chores.  Thought it was a cute idea that maybe you could do next week. 

https://theholdernessfamily.com/parents-what-youre-doing-is-impossible/

Thank you for all of your hard work you are doing.  Enjoy the weekend.

Take Care

Mrs. Walker

Place to Visit

Hi Parents!

Here are some great websites to visit while we are inside.  You can make fake plane tickets or pretend to drive to these places and have your student explore.  Have Fun!

https://www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org

https://www.royal.uk/virtual-tours-buckingham-pala...

https://www.houstonzoo.org

Check in

Happy Monday!

Hope everyone enjoyed the weekend and are staying warm on this cold/snowy day.  Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or need help with any of the distance learning assignments.  Here are some great ideas from Natalie Snyders, MS, CCC-SLP on different activities you can do at home to promote speech and language growth.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Speech-and-Language-Home-Suggestions-for-Emergencies-for-SLPs-FREEBIE-5317375

Have a great week!
Mrs. Walker

Here is a great resource for supporting children online from Noodle Nook.  It gives some great ideas all parents can use.

http://www.noodlenook.net/supporting-special-needs-students-online/?ck_subscriber_id=748389070

Daily Schedules

Kids love when there is structure in place.  It maybe a good idea to implement a schedule to your distant learning school days at home.   Here is a great example of one from Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V_I0A4M5ZqBRba1smmbzVukNIGjuichL/view


If you need help creating one for your child or need picture cues to go along with it feel free to contact to me.  I can help.

Mrs. Walker's

Office Hours During Distant Learning:

Monday: 9:00-11:00

Tuesday: 1:00-3:00

Wednesday: IEP Meetings

Thursday: 1:00-3:00

Friday: 9:00-11:00

To request an appointment use the Google Form below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBGx4oT2tpEMSFgBk1p8DM8AzA5bTtBwO8d_7oxLr_g_4NNA/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1

Distant Learning

Dear Families,

Online learning in Adams 12 started on Wednesday, April 1 and will continue through Thursday, April 30. I will continue working with your student(s) through a combination of ways such as using Seesaw, Google Classroom, and co-teaching with the Significant Support Needs (SSN) teacher through Class DoJo. Weekly activities provided at your child's ability level will be provided weekly to be completed at a time that is convenient for the family.

Additionally, I will also be available to meet with you and your students by doing office hours through appointments, or anytime via email. I will also continue to collaborate and consult with teachers to ensure that all students are supported as best as possible during this period of online learning.

Each student can find specific goal-based activities on their platform page (Seesaw, Google Classroom, or Class DoJo). These folders will be updated each week. Instructions for completing the activities with be included with the lesson.

If there are any questions or difficulties accessing resources, please don't hesitate to reach out at any point! My contact information can be found below my name on this blog post or on the school website.

Take Care,

Mrs. Kim Walker, MS ED, CCC-SLP

Tarver Speech/Language Pathologist

kim.walker@adams12.org

Hello Tarver Families!

Hello Everyone! 

 Just wanted to touch base and let you know that we will be contacting you next week on our plans on how Tarver SPED will deliver services.  I hope you are all enjoying your Spring Break!  Ace says "Hi".  I miss you all!  Here is a fun indoor scavenger hunt activity from Macaroni Kid that you can do with your family!

https://brentwood.macaronikid.com/articles/5bf04bab5063515f73461758/indoor-scavenger-hunt-printable 

Love ,

Mrs. Walker