Next week is going to be March already! I bet you’ve been seeing lots of items on Pinterest and the other speech blogs that feature activities with St. Patrick’s Day themes. I’ve been pinning and downloading from all my favorite websites. So when I was deciding what kinds of materials I still needed for my caseload, I realized I was really lacking activities for the upper elementary aged students. All of the following activities are focused on language, problem solving and reasoning skills for the 3-5th grade population! 
So let’s get to it! The first activity I created was a multiple meaning words matching game. 
I used foam green shamrocks from the dollar store. I used all body part multiple meaning words. I wrote the body part on one side and the alternate meaning on the other side. For example “heel” and ” what a trained dog does on a walk.” Students had to match the pieces and then explain the 2 meanings in their own words. 
The next activity requires the students to logically evaluate statements. Print one of each card and attach them to a popsicle stick. The SLP reads aloud a statement and the students hold up their answer card. A variety of example sentences are included, such as “Doctors are women.” 
The next activity focusing on problem solving and inferences. Students draw a card with 3 items listed. They read the items listed and determine what activity they could be used for. Given the words: Rod, Bait, Boat, the students should infer that the person is going fishing. 
The last activity has an activity listed and students need to express the sequence of steps to complete the activity. 
All the activities include these extra cards to make them into a fun game! Grab your free download HERE. What other goals are your upper elementary school students working on?
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Your freebies are just sooooo cute! Thank you for always sharing:)
Love these ideas.
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Love this! We do a lot of curriculum based stuff. Vocab and comprehension from stories in their HM books. It’s rather boring at times and hard to make it fun when we only have 30 minutes and the stories change every week. Any ideas for that?
Thanks so much!! My higher elementary students have been loving the materials I have brought in that I grabbed from you! My students are working on auditory processing, word finding, and higher level questions. It is soooo difficult to reach those levels when we aren’t the classroom teacher and they are SO DONE coming to speech when they have been coming since kindergarten!!!! Love your input!
Thank you so much for sharing your ideas with us! I need to get out of my drill and kill rut and these will be just the thing to help me with that!
Thanks guys!
I have to also put in a word of thanks! It’s tough to find great things to do that are seasonal and fun for older elementary kids. Thanks so much for sharing these great ideas!
I did the problem solving/inferences activity with one of my groups today. The vocabulary was a little hard but it didn’t matter because I just used other vocabulary. The kids LOVED the activity and it kept their interest for the entire session! Thanks again for a super speech activity.
How do you have time to be so creative!! Love it!
Jenna this was the 3rd most clicked link at Thrifty Thursday this week! Awesome job once again….yes when do you have time to make such awesome materials??
Truly enjoy your blog and especially your freebies!