On the 4th day of posting this Speech Lady gave to me, some ideas to teach preschoolers.
About 90% of my caseload are boys. That means I've gotten really good at crashing cars, making horrible wrecking noises and knocking things down. I like to directly teach my kids how to play with toys and then help them generalize that in real-time play with peers. Last week we focused on cars. I made this poster with some target vocabulary for the kids to use.
With a car wash you have a novel 3 step sequence. We just used two bins and a towel, but how cute would it be to make these with your kids?!?
About 90% of my caseload are boys. That means I've gotten really good at crashing cars, making horrible wrecking noises and knocking things down. I like to directly teach my kids how to play with toys and then help them generalize that in real-time play with peers. Last week we focused on cars. I made this poster with some target vocabulary for the kids to use.
Some additional activities were a car wash. I like this because along with teaching pragmatics, it is so important to teach play skills. A lot of my kids use 1-2 step play sequences and it's important to expand that as you get so much more language with just one extra step of play.
With a car wash you have a novel 3 step sequence. We just used two bins and a towel, but how cute would it be to make these with your kids?!?
We also went on a scavenger hunt for tools around the school so that we could fix a wounded car. I couldn't have dreamed in my wildest dreams how many peer to peer interactions I got with this activity. It was very exciting.
Cars are also a great opportunity to work on basic concepts like size, quantities and color. I usually like to categorize them by colors, type (car/truck), size etc.
Love this book to go along with our play!
Play is such a critical part to teaching language and pragmatic skills with little guys. I know I always forgot about just playing when I worked in the schools. The school I'm at now is a school founded on the importance of play.
Love this book to go along with our play!
Play is such a critical part to teaching language and pragmatic skills with little guys. I know I always forgot about just playing when I worked in the schools. The school I'm at now is a school founded on the importance of play.
All I know is I've gotten really good at playing and I make some pretty legit environmental sounds these days :)
Thank you so much! I am creating a picture binder of "How to play with ________" for our preschool daughter and this is perfect to add :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! I am creating a picture binder of "How to play with ________" for our preschool daughter and this is perfect to add :)
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ReplyDeleteOn the 4th day of posting, Speech Lady gave to me some playful teaching ideas! This week, we focused on cars, using a car wash and scavenger hunt for tools to boost peer interactions and language skills. With just two bins and a towel, you can recreate this at home. Visit Homelabels for cute kitchen towel sets!
Love this creative way of using cars to teach social interaction and language. Strategies like social confidence therapy children can further build communication, turn-taking, and peer engagement in fun, meaningful ways.
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