Saving my weekly lesson plans for speech therapy in an easy to access Google Doc has been a life changing time saver. I can easily access everything I am doing this week in speech therapy whether in person or virtual teletherapy sessions. By creating one Google folder and saving it to my favorites bar, I can easily access the weekly…
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Fire Safety Week is in October and during that week, our early childhood center theme is Community Helpers. Since starting a hybrid of in person and virtual therapy, I have been sharing my weekly lesson plans in my Instagram Stories. They are also saved to my highlights on IG. My speech therapy sessions always begin with a song. That gives…
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Now that school speech therapy includes both in person and virtual therapy scenarios, I have to plan a LOT more and move quickly between groups to set up a web cam or sanitize a table and chairs. What I found helpful in the Spring turned into a full blown must-have this Fall. I started linking my activities in a Google…
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With sanitizing and disinfecting at the top of the priority list this Fall, Speech Therapists that work with young children are faced with a new challenge in the classroom or clinic. In addition to large caseloads with busy schedules with room for little error, we now have to think about the materials we are using and how we can clean…
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As with any muscle strengthening therapy, the key to rehabilitating the swallow is repetition. Spending half an hour on swallowing exercises can become mundane for both the patient and the therapist. If no one is having fun, therapy will be less effective. So how can we spice up dysphagia treatment? I have taken suggestions from SLPs all across the internet…
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I have had quite a few conversations over the last year with teachers and fellow SLPs about using worksheets and “coloring” in speech. Today I want to share with you a few thoughts about coloring and why in my speech room, it is MORE than JUST coloring. My students are ages 3-6 years old with a variety of language, fine/gross…
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Fairy Tales week in #speechtherapy will be coming up soon! Do you target dragons during that theme too? I’m fairly certain this knight ornament (and his 10 buddies) that I got for 10 cents each will also be making an appearance😳👉🏼swipe to see my latest hoard...
#slphoarder #preschoolslp #slp #eccslp #msgardeniareads #readalouds
Of course I have a hedgehog that makes actual grunting noises when he is squeezed. What kind of self-respecting #slphoarder wouldn’t?
#earlychildhoodeducation #slp #prek #speechtherapy #ihaveissues #hedgehogsofinstagram
Do you ever get a book and JUST KNOW your kids are going to love it? Like, you can visualize their actual faces and hear the laughter long before you even read it aloud?
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I always try to preview a book online in a YouTube read aloud before purchasing. That way I know if it’s a good fit for my classroom.
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I always include several books with videos in each week’s lesson plans. You can get the 🐧 and 🐻❄️ lesson plans in my highlights or click this picture in my profile link!
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#booksharetuesday #slp #earlychildhoodeducation #prek #readaloud #msgardeniarecommends #booksilovetoread
It is snowing in Texas! ❄️❄️❄️ this happens about every 5-6 years so we are really excited over here!
I read Sneezy every single year. Your students would love it too! Download this free story helper from the link in my profile.
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#speechtherapy #prek #kindergarten #earlychildhoodeducation #slp #snowmanactivities #snowmantheme
Crafts in speech. You either love them or you loathe them. Over the years, I have figured out how to use crafts in speech and make it efficient & functional for everyone, even in mixed groups.
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Your turn:
What do you love or loathe about crafts in #speechtherapy ?
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Tell me below or check out my stories to vote and leave your opinions!
Santa needs all the help sorting toys this year! After reading Dear Santa by Rod Campbell, we continued the descriptive vocabulary practice by flipping through the toy catalog!
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#anchorcharts #santashelpers #prek #ecc #slp #ashaigers #speechtherapy
My students totally believed me that these @lakeshorelearning Shapes Discovery Boxes were presents!
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Just. Add. Bow. Everything becomes instantly magical!🎅🏻
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#preschoolslp #earlychildhoodeducation #slp #ashaigers
What’s in your #slpbag this week? I’m carrying home Christmas books to make visuals for my students to use with our lessons! Where did I get that cute bag? From @marleycarolinejewelry of course! She’s giving away a bag to one of you too!
Just go to my stories or the link in my profile to enter the 25 Days of Giveaways!
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A winner is chosen at 9PM CST each night!🎄
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#slpgiveaways #slp #speechtherapy #aac #wantcoffee #slpa #ashaigers
It’s been a while since I shared a book for #booksharetuesday ! I’m officially on the scratch and sniff book bandwagon. Do you know of any more?
Last week I shared The Gingerbread Family. This week I highly recommend The Sweet Smell of Christmas!
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Do you know if any others?
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#msgardeniarecommends #booksirecommend #preschoolslp #earlychildhoodslp
This week’s lesson plans are all about Santa’s helpers: elves and reindeer!
Links are included to songs, books, activities and free downloads like this visual recipe for reindeer food!
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Download using the link in my profile or swipe up in my stories.
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#slp #preschoolslp #preschoollessons #christmaslessonplans #preschool #preschoolactivities
If you haven’t signed up for my 25 Days of Giveaways yet, what are you waiting for?🥰
Enter once, have a chance to win all month long!
Today’s drawing will be for this amazing Winter Wonderland felt play scene from @specialneedsgames .
Swipe through to see everything that is included!
What I used it to target today in #speechtherapy :
❄️Winter vocabulary
❄️Positional terms
❄️k/g articulation
❄️size concepts
❄️Quantitative concepts
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What else could you see yourself using it for?
👇🏻Tell me here:
This week’s gingerbread theme has so many great opportunities to work on language skills! This book 🍭Gingerbread Family🍬 is great for targeting pronouns and action words.
Bonus feature: it’s scratch and sniff!👃🏽
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#prekslp #earlychildhoodeducation #msgardeniarecommends #slpbookshelf #speechtherapy #slp
Today is the day! The first of *25* Days of giveaways from Ms. Gardenia and friends. Let’s count down the days together with some amazing prizes every👏🏻single👏🏻day!
All you have to do is enter ONE TIME at the link found in my story or profile. Every single day after you enter, your name will be in the giveaway for one of the prizes that have a total value of over $1300🤗. You are going to want to tell your friends about this! 👇🏻
Giveaway details and rules are found on the entry form.
https://bit.ly/25DaysOfSLPGiveaways
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🎄Merry Christmas!
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❤️, Darla
Planning preschool speech for next week? Check your email or swipe up on the links in my stories to get activities for Food and Family week in Speech!
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This grocery store scavenger hunt is one of the free downloads included in the lesson plans.
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What do you traditionally eat at Thanksgiving? Are you making the main course or a side? Tell me below👇🏻:
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#preschoolslp #eccslp #earlychildhoodeducation #prek #kindergarten #slp #speechtherapy
Surprise! I added a free sensory bin to this week’s blog post that will help your students retell not one, but ✌🏼 farm themed books!!!
Visit MsGardenia.com to get your download or the link in my profile.
Enjoy!
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#sensoryactivity #languageandliteracy #slp #speechtherapy #eccslp #farmthemepreschool
We have a LOT going on in speech this week! Did you download the free lesson plans full of direct links to books, songs, videos and more?
Check out my stories or the highlight in my profile. 👩🏻🌾
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https://bit.ly/Lesson-Plans-Fall-Farm
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#preschool #preschoolslp #eccslp #earlychildhoodspecialeducation #slp #speechtherapy #speechtherapyideas
When nothing else makes sense, we play! I love being able to step into my speech room each morning knowing that the little people I work with every day love me, love life and love learning.
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Here is something fun we have been doing this week. What have you done in your speech room that has brought joy to your heart this week?
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#preschoolslp #slp #eccslp #sensoryplay #falltheme #teachersofinstagram #speechtherapy
Let’s pause all Fall shenanigans for the 50th day of school! Our ECC goes all our with a photo booth, tattoo parlor, sock hop and a soda shop that services Dr. Pepper floats!
#50thdayofschool #sockhop #earlychildhoodeducation #slp #teachersofinstagram
Let’s start the week with a spooky freebie! A sampler for you-no tricks, just treats this week!
Thank you for your consistent support of my corner of the web.
I’ll link to it in my profile or just visit my boom site with this link:
🎃 https://bit.ly/new-boom-msgardenia
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#preschoolslp #boomlearning #slp #digitalslpresources #articulation
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