October 22, 2018 My Family Unit

My Family

This week in language group, we continued the unit on FAMILY!  We reviewed the vocabulary for the week, which included: celebrate, holiday, relatives, thinkful, and together.  We reviewed these vocabulary words by saying them, then defining them a a group.  I also asked questions to make it meaningful to them (i.e.:  Mom is your relative.  Am I your relative?).

We then looked at various pictures of celebrations (a wedding, St. Rocco's Feast, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Years Eve, and a birthday celebration).  We talked about about different things to celebrate and how to have a celebration.

For our activity, I printed out two rooms in a house, a kitchen and a living room.  The children made a scene of a celebration with the pictures provided.  The first child decided it was a birthday celebration for the sister.  Each child after that choose either a family member or a party item to place on the pictures.  At the end, all the  family members were at the party, which had decorations and a cake.

This activity worked on:

1.  vocabulary related to family (mother,, father, grandfather, grandmother, sister, brother, etc)

2.  vocabulary related to items used/needed at a party (balloons,  cake, candles, drinks, etc)

3.  location words (on the table, on the couch, at the stove)

4.  attending

5.  turn taking

6. labeling

7.  answering questions

Miss Diane

Speech-Language Pathologist

October 15, 2018 - My Family Unit

My Family

This week in language group we read the book "My Day From A to Z" by F. Isabel Campoy.  This book goes through the alphabet to describe what happends during a day.

"A - awake;  Good morning!  Are you awake?" asks mom.

B - bathroom;  I go to the bathroom to wash my face.

C - cereal;  I have cereal with fruit for breakfast."

For our activity, the children were presented with a picture of a house, with the rooms 

showing inside.

We looked at pictures of people performing various activities in the house and had to decide what room it went in.  For example, if a child picked the picture of the man cooking, he/she decided what room that a dad would cook in.  Other examples include: eating, taking a bath, watching tv, playing with toys, etc.

This activity worked on:

1. attending to the book
2. letters in the alphabet
3. the names of rooms in a house (bedroom, kitchen, etc)
4. vocabulary related to actions (cooking, washing, etc)
5. labeling actions

Miss Diane

Speech-Language Pathologist

October 9, 2018 - My Family Unit

My Family

We started the My Family unit in Big Day for Pre-K!  In Language Group we read the book "Bear's Busy Family."  In this book a family prepares for a birthday by doing a variety of chores...

"Smell the bread my grandma bakes.

Touch the bowls my grandpa bakes.

Taste the fish my uncle brings..."

This book goes through each family member (grandma, grandpa, uncle, aunt, mommy, daddy, sister, brother, cousins, and baby) and how they helped to prepare for the party.

We talked about the vocabulary related to family members and who had each one (Who has a __?).

For our activity, we sorted family members by what they do.  A variety of family member pictures were given as a choice.  Each child chose one family member and had to decide what they do from a closed set of options (cooks dinner, washes clothes, showers, takes a bath, rinks milk and sleeps ina crib).

This activity worked on:

1. vocabulary related to family.
2. defining words
3. attending to the book
4. taking turns
5. action vocabulary (cook, wash, etc.)
6. 5 senses (smell, touch, see, hear, taste)
7. identifying family members
8. sorting

Miss Diane
Speech-Language Pathologist