NOVEMBER

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 Hi early childhood friends and parents,


Can you believe Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away?  Though it may look different this year, it is still an important time for families to make memories together.  This month we are giving suggestions on how to have fun and also improve your child's speech and language skills.  


1.   Fun with crafts:

https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/thanksgiving/handprint-turkey.asp (works on color identification and body parts)

https://kidscraftroom.com/pre-school-fall-craft-math-game/   (works on oral motor skills and counting


2.   Some suggestions for November books to target speech and language:

a.   Turkey Trouble by Wendy Silvano - talks about farm animals and targets the sounds   

       /k, g/. 

b.   Bear Gives Thanks by Karma Wilson - rhyming text and forest animal vocabulary

c.   There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey  by Lucille Colandro - repetitive     

      speech,  articulation practice for /t, k, sw blends/

d.  10 Fat Turkeys by Tony Johnston - works on rhyming, vocabulary, and targets sounds 

     /k, g/

e.   Where is Baby’s Turkey? By Karen Katz -targets Thanksgiving themed vocabulary; https://www.mytoddlertalks.com/kims-blog/2019/11/26/toddler-speech-therapy-thanksgiving-themed-books-and-activities


If you do not have or can not find any of these books you can also look them up on youtube for a read-aloud.  


3.  Talk about Thanksgiving with your child.   Talk about turkeys, the different types of fruits and vegetables you might eat on Thanksgiving.   Find pictures of items related to Thanksgiving and glue them on paper.  Have your child name the pictures and talk about each one.  


4.  Play outside, rake or gather a big pile of leaves. Jump in the leaves.  Target words such as “jump”, “in,” and “out.”   


5.  Practice social skills at family dinners.  Work on requests by pointing or vocalizing for what they want.   Encourage your child to say “please” and “thank you.”   Request “more” or to “pass” a specific item to them.  For example, “Please pass the rolls.“   


6.   Practice speech sounds by saying the name of family members.  Remember to try and make your best sounds.  


7,  Have your child help set the table.  This practices helping learn new vocabulary (platter, placemat, etc.) and prepositions (under, below, between, next to).  Put the fork next to the plate.  Put the plate on top of the placement.  Then review words again while cleaning up.   Have a great November!

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