Easter Speech and Language Activity Kit

by Kathy Babineau
Grades KG - 4

Easter Speech and Language Kit

Happy Easter! Hop on over for some fun, easy to use speech and language activities. These Easter-themed cards,games and activities can be used in 1:1 and small group speech/language lessons. They are also great for classroom centers and ELA groups.

The kit includes the following:
*Cover page
*Contents page
*15 Gross-Motor Following Directions Cards
*24 Antonym Cards
*24 Synonym Cards
*12 Regular/Irregular Past Tense Verb Cards
*12 Categorical Naming Cards
*12 Receptive Language Riddles
*12 Easter-Themed Picture Only Cards (Use these to play "Describe It", "Receptive Riddles" and "Sentence Makers" - Directions provided)
*Happy Easter Game Board
*Mini Jelly Beans and Basket Collection Mat for game playing and motivation!

Kathy Babineau MS, CCC-SLP

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Easter STEM Challenge: Carrot Carriage

Q: How does the Easter Bunny get around in style?

A: In a brand new carrot carriage!

In this STEM challenge, students design a carriage made primarily of carrots to help the Easter Bunny get moving with his precious Easter cargo!  Depending on the age group, the carriage should either roll downhill or propel itself on flat ground a certain distance.

You can take this idea and run with it, or get some extra support from the prepared lesson challenge or Easter STEM Olympics blog:

• Materials list
• Criteria & Constraints list
• Design Analysis handouts
• Discussion questions
• Modifications to increase/decrease difficulty for grades 2 - 8
• Post-design extension ideas

Carrot Carriage ($1 product)

Easter STEM Olympics ($4 product: Five Easter challenges for the price of four)

Easter STEM Olympics Blog (free blog includes details on Carrot Carriage and four other Easter STEM challenges)

Easter Stem Challenge: Bean Bind

Q: What happens when there's a mix up at the bean factory just days before Easter?

A: The Easter Bunny has a bean bind that only a STEM design challenge can fix!

Can your students help the Easter Bunny out of this bean bind?  In this challenge, students work against a Criteria & Constraints List to design a way to sort the beans. With younger students, you may elect to use jelly beans and one other type. With older students, challenge them with two or more other types of beans.

You can take this idea and run with it on your own, or you can find more support in the prepared lesson challenge or Easter STEM Olympics Blog:

• Materials list
• Criteria & Constraints List
• Design Analysis handouts
• Modifications to increase/decrease difficulty for grades 2 - 8
• Post-design extension ideas

Bean Bind Challenge ($1 product)

Easter STEM Olympics ($4 product includes five challenges for the price of four)

Easter STEM Olympics Blog (free blog includes details on Bean Bind and four other Easter STEM Challenges)

Easter STEM Challenge: Basket Bounce

Q: What do you get when you cross Easter, STEM, and P.E.?

A: The Basket Bounce Relay Race Challenge!  

Working against a Criteria & Constraints List, students design (individually or in partners/groups) an Easter basket that helps them transport eggs while hopping a bouncy relay!  

You can take this idea and run with it on your own, or you can find more support in the prepared lesson challenge or Easter STEM Olympics blog: 

• Materials List
• Criteria & Constraints List
• Instructions on conducting the race with individual, partner, and group basket designs 
• Discussion questions
• Design analysis handouts
• Modifications to increase/decrease difficulty for grades 2 - 8
• Post-design extension ideas in the prepared lesson challenge   

Basket Bounce ($1 product)

Easter STEM Olympics ($4 product includes five challenges for the price of four)

Easter STEM Challenge Blog (Free blog includes details on Basket Bounce and four additional challenges)

Fun, phrasing and fluency time with Easter Rhythm and Rhyme!

It's almost Easter, and I find myself having one of those teacher déjà vu moments from last fall.

Thanksgiving had passed and Halloween was on the horizon. The seasons were changing. Students were settled into their classrooms and routines, and these troops were getting restless. I could hear it their robotic reading. Things needed a little shaking up.  Sound famililar?

 

Do your kiddies have ants in their pants? Mine definitely do - unless they're moving at a snail's pace...

The snow has melted into mud and the kiddies are confined to the asphalt at recess. Transitions are taking double time, and some have started reading at a painfully slow, flat and monotone rate. We need some perking up!

Reflecting on last fall, we're going back to what worked and heading into a Fun, Fluency Blitz! This idea hails from the Reading Recovery world, where I was fortunate to spend eight wonderful years!

There were times that a student would plateau at a a level for more than a week, when normally our students moved up one reading level per week. One solution for this was to take two or three lessons for a phrasing and fluency blitz - rereading some familiar, easier books to rebuild confidence. Many of our students' favorites were readers that rhymed and had a rhythm to them.

I have used the The Bunny Hop Easter Song and Movement Activity (freebie) in Kindergarten poetry books as a music and movement activity. Add in some bunny ears from the dollar store, a cotton ball and a bit of tape, and you've got dramatic play!  It works particularly well if used first as a music and movement activity, before showing early readers the text. With the song being already familiar to them, they will find success when guided through reading the text. The familiar language and rhyme will project them forward.

 Last fall's fix-it was Five Hallowe'en Friends on the Wall - but that is another post for another day. (I will tell you that one of little friends with autism still sings it as he readies himself for recess.) That book was the first of my Fun, Fluency Readers.

The success of these Fun, Fluency Readers lies in the fun and humor of them, their ability to get into our heads (and of course, our students') so that the phrasing is easy and fluency comes naturally.

My latest Fun Fluency Reader was modeled after that famous song performed by Meghan Trainor, co-written by Meghan Trainor and Kevin Kadish, I'm All About the Bass, and it is for Easter!  Written to encourage fluent reading, motivate reading through humor and to introduce subtext, It's All About the Eggs stars an adorable bunny singing about chocolate easter eggs. Every great story has its villain, however. Not everyone is as chocolate-crazed as this bunny.

It's All About the Eggs is currently discounted because I have not yet had the chance to create a black and white version. It will be added over the summer, so anyone who purchases this book now will be simply be able to obtain the black and white copy with an update from their TpT My Purchases page at no extra cost for use in future years.

The Bunny Hop Easter Song, Movement Activity and Coloring sheet is a forever freebie - a color poster with a black and white version for the kids to color and take home, to read and sing with, and hang on the fridge for decor!

What is your favorite thing to put into Easter baskets? Are you a chocoholic like our little bunny friend? I'd love to hear from you in the comments!  Here's mine. 

Be sure to check out the links below, and visit me on TpT,  my website and Pinterest! Happy Easter everyone!
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Engaging Activities with Dice

How can we make student practice and spiral of skills fun and engaging?  Dice Activity Cards are one way to do this.  Set these cards out in a center or station and students can work individually or cooperatively to work through the questions.


Sample Math Dice Activity Card



Sample Literacy Dice Activity Card

The  Mathematics Dice Activity Cards will help your students practice a variety of math skills with confidence. Each of the 10 Math Dice Activity Cards include 6 questions or activities to promote understanding and extend the learning. Click the picture below:

The 12 Literacy Dice Activity Cards will help your students practice and explore comprehension with confidence while reading fiction and non-fiction stories, books and reading selections. Word Study, Spelling and Vocabulary cards are also included. Each of these Dice Activity Cards include 6 open ended questions on each card to promote understanding and extend the learning. Click the picture below:

While these cards were developed to be used for individual practice and reinforcement in learning centers or stations, you could also use them with small group instruction.  Students will also need a die or dice cards to use along with cards. Students will roll the die. Whatever number they roll is the activity they do. Assign the number of activities you want them to complete from the Card.

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Math Dice Activity Cards

Literacy Dice Activity Cards

 

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Numbers (0-20) and Number Words (zero-ten) Sequencing - Easter Bunny

Grab this Easter Bunny Number Sequencing HERE!

Easter Bunny Sequencing - Numbers 0-20 and Number Words zero-ten

This 4 page pack was created with differentiation for students in mind. Students can sequence numbers 0-10, 11-20, or 0-20 depending on the level of each student. Students who already know these numbers can work on sequencing number words zero-ten. 

You will need to provide students with a piece of paper or sentence strip to glue the numbers/words to after they put them in order. I always like to use a sentence strip or cut long construction paper in half and tape the pieces together to have one long strip so that students practice gluing them in order from left to right without having to sweep back to the left to glue some. 

This activity is also great for math centers. Each sheet can be copied on colored tagboard, laminated, cut apart and put in a Ziploc bag for a math center to be used over and over throughout the year.

It also makes great work for students when you have a substitute since the entire activity takes a while with coloring the pieces, cutting them out, and gluing the pieces in order. Students love adding their own color to decorate their number strip. 

I hope your students enjoy this fun activity. 

You may also like:
Emergent Reader: Butterflies (variety of sight words)
Spring Read and Write
Emergent Reader: Easter Eggs (number and color words)
Subtraction Problems with Manipulatives (Creepy Crawlies)

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