Therapy Theme: February (Winter, Valentine’s Day)

February Speech Therapy

“What’s in your box, Mrs. Elizabeth?”
So, I’m back again to share some organization tips and tricks, some free printables, and some
links to great resources for February speech therapy!

Organization

Monthly Labels: First off, I use tote boxes by season. I use these very cute Monthly Labels and have 4 boxes: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. I change them out in the back of my car every 3 months and always have my evaluation box with me. I use these sterilite 80 qt gasket boxes. They have held up for many years and have a seamless design that keeps unwanted things from creeping in (eek!).

Watch Faces and Backgrounds: Did you know A Perfect Blend has free watch faces and backgrounds in her instagram stories each month? You should check those out. So cute and fun to change each month. My favorite last year was a drawing of the inaugural poet, Amanda Gorman.

Planner: I print my planner each year from Polka Dot Posie Print. I love the seasonal colors and the options to customize what I need each year. I use the discbound system and other accessories from Happy Planner. These are easy to find on amazon.

The Cozi App:
Our family uses this app to keep up with appointments and our full schedule for the 6 of us. It also allows you to make grocery lists, sync with alexa, and upload recipes for meal planning.

Visuals: I use these with children whether we are face to face or in teletherapy format. I’ve added a digital version, which has been really helpful in teletherapy. I also created a set of digital reinforcers, which has been especially helpful for my kiddos age 5+. I’ve been using lots of visuals to help keep kids on task and engaged.
This set has digital and print versions.

Task Boxes, File Folders, Worksheets, and Activities:

Adaptive Books: Ten Silly Snowmen is a fun little adaptive book perfect for teaching simple counting. This set comes with a Boom Card e-version, too! I carry this one from January through February. After all, many of us are just now getting snow…and lots of it!

Interactive Book (Counting 1-10): Ten Silly Hearts by Elizabeth Hepler (Ausome Speech)

Book Companions: There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose by Lucille Colandro, Companions by Ausome Speech

Froggy Get’s Dressed by Jonathan London

5 Little Monkeys: Printable and Digital Unit

Favorite Video for “No More Monkeys”: Super Simple Songs

Winter Theme Speech Therapy Resources on TpT

Freebies!

Free Boom Card Games

Winter Freebies from TpT Authors:

Goldie Talks Speech: Winter Articulation Match-Ups and 50 trial articulation sheet
Ivy League Language: Articulation Dough Mats
A Perfect Blend: Backgrounds for January (instagram stories), Speech Posters, etc
BVG Speech: Winter /S/ and /S/ Blends
Looks Like Language: Sentence Building Activities
Panda Speech: Winter Listen Up
Rainbow Studio– Coloring Pages, Digital Stickers, etc!
Ausome Speech: Winter themed freebies for speech and language.
Speech Sprouts: Has a post with 29 great ideas for free winter activities!

Freebies for Valentine’s Day from TpT Authors:

Ivy League Language : Articulation Dough Mats
A Perfect Blend: Backgrounds for February (instagram stories), Speech Posters, etc
The Type B SLP : Valentine’s Day Category Sorting
Ausome Speech: Valentine “Feed Me” game for /G/ phoneme.
Emily B Speech: Build a Potato Valentine Game

Free Websites for Teletherapy:

highlightskids.com
pbskids.org
abcya.com
thecolor.com
uniteforliteracy.com
matchthememory.com
quia.com/web
sesamestreet.org
tweentribune.com
rewadworks.org
onlinejigsawpuzzles.net
playtictactoe.org
pinkcatgames.com

Favorite Books for February

Roses are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink by Diane deGreat

Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright (check out the boom deck and toys that correspond below)

There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose by Lucille Colandro

Pete the Cat Valentine’s Day is Cool by James Dean

Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse! by Laura Numeroff & Felecia Bond

Llama Llama, I Love You by Anna Dewdney

Little Blue Truck’s Valentine’s Day by Alice Schertle

Ten Silly Hearts by Elizabeth Hepler

Therapy Ideas:

Lesson Plan: Download this plan for preschool speech & language filled with ideas for books, toys & games, songs, movement breaks, readalouds, and resources!

Books
Music: I usually incorporate music, whether it’s a song for articulation (I love the Have Fun Teaching alphabet series and Jack Hartman for articulation warmups-search these on youtube).
- Preschool Songs for Winter Themes (you can mute or open in a new window to avoid ads:
  - 3 Little Kittens Lost Their Mittens
  - Snowflake Snowflake
  - I’m a Little Snowflake
  - 5 Little Snowflakes
  - Winter Clothing Song
  - I’m a Snowman– for purchase by Rachel Arnston
Movement Breaks:
- Snowman Freeze Dance
- Jack Hartman Penguin Dance (my son loves this one!)
- Go Noodle Yes I want to Build a Snowman
- The Sid Shuffle

Just for Fun:

Brooks has blue and white snowman shoes (amazon for the win)! My tote bag is from 31 gifts. Normally, I’d cart it into my school and clinic sites, but for now, I haul it up and down the stairs to my work space at home. I’m still carrying these over from January because it is cold and icy!