This is what one side of my classroom looks like:
I offer two types of cookies: Oreo and Chocolate Chip (chewy) and fruit punch to drink as well. For their sessions, students are able to pick a game or activity to play or they can choose an iPad of mine to tinker with. I have a good selection of basic board games and activities and I usually choose items that I do not typically use for therapy tools. I do not do any kind of formal lesson, but I do make minor prompts and corrections for things like grammatical utterances, articulation performance (depending on the level of practice for the student), and pragmatic needs. Speech fun holiday week is a good time for me to sit back and observe students to see if they have generalized learned skills into other activities or settings or conversational speech. In a way, I am collecting informal end of the semester baselines to compare with August performances.
Some students love to play in groups; other students like to just do "their thing." For this week, anything goes as long as it is EARNED from hard work.
For my special forces students, we went on a world journey and "visited" other countries to see how other cultures celebrate the holiday season at this time of the year. I had a fun pdf presentation and then we had videos of each country and how they celebrate the Christmas season. Each student had a personal "passport" and was given a flag to glue inside to serve as their "stamp" to show they had visited that country. They loved it! It was a great multi-sensory activity that had visuals, tactile and manipulable pieces, and they could personalize something to take home and share with their family.
What a fun time of the year to celebrate with students and co-workers! To end the week, students were visited by Santa and his elf pal.
Happy holidays and have a wonderful Christmas break!
Happy speeching!
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