This post (and the next few posts) are going to be guest-blogged by Erin Dixon. I'm a graduate student studying speech pathology at Purdue and this is my fourth week working with Ms. Sarah and Ms. Lorraine. I am really enjoying getting to know all the wonderful, bright, funny children here at BECC and have been learning a lot!
This week in phonology we did some St. Patrick's Day themed activities focusing on multi-syllabic words like 'shamrock,' 'rainbow,' 'clover,' and 'leprechaun.'
We read the book "What Makes a Rainbow?" and talked about how we need sun and rain to make a rainbow. The kids used pipe cleaners and Play Dough to pick each color of the rainbow one at time and put the colors in a cloud. The kids had a lot of fun guessing what color would come next and thinking of things that were each color!
We also filled out shamrocks with St. Patrick's Day themed stickers as we practiced our sounds. The kids then got to describe the picture they made and take it home to share with their families. They are so creative!
As a reminder, we will be on Spring Break the next two weeks and will not be having phonology groups again until the week of April 7th. We hope you enjoy your time off and keep working on those good speech skills!
Ms. Sarah, Ms. Lorraine, and Ms. Erin
