I know many of you can’t directly talk about the holidays at school. Secular, religious or otherwise. I wanted to go ahead and share these winter packets with you. I will use them in January and February, but wanted to get them out to you in case you’re just going to transition into ‘winter’ themes instead of Christmas. The first 3 I finished are focused on articulation and grammar. 
The first articulation game is for preschool to early elementary age students. 
T, D, P, B, M, F, K, G S, S blends 24 cards in the initial/final (12 each) position of each sound. 240 cards total plus Extra Blank Snowballs 
Directions: Game Version One: 1. Print all snowball cards. Print 3 copies of the special cards. Print a snowball pile for each student. 2. Use the snowball piles as student mats. Draw snowballs from the pile. Students say each snowball word. Students can keep the snowball if they say it correctly. The student with the most snowballs in their arsenal wins! 
Game Version Two: 1. Print all snowballs. On the back of each snowball, write a number (1-3). 2. Give each student snowballs for their sound. 3. Play the game like war. Each student says their target word. Then flip the snowballs over to show a number. The student who has the higher number takes both cards for their pile. 
I played this ‘war’ version with my kindergarten students. It ties nicely to the math concepts they are targeting in class with ‘more/less’. 
The target word list is included in case you can’t determine all the pictures! Find it in my TPT Store. 
Winter Grammar is 38 pages including 6 activities. 
Ski Pronouns (60 cards) Fill in the blanks with the correct pronoun. Add skiers to the mountain on each turn. Watch out for the Ski Bus heading home! 
Polar Bear Irregular Verb Cards (20 cards) Each card contains a sentence. Students must choose the correct answer to fill in the blank. If correct, store it on their ice fishing house. 
Snowflake Irregular Plurals (24 cards) Students read each verb card. Find the two snowflakes that match for the irregular plurals. Use each in a sentence. 
Hot Chocolate: Subject/Verb Agreement (18 cards) Students read the sentences and fill in the blanks with is/are. Sort the marshmallows onto the correct mug. 
Arctic Animals: HAVE/HAS Cards (18 cards) Students read the sentence on the card and fill in the blank with HAVE or HAS. Then sort the arctic creatures onto the correct igloo. 
•Penguin WAS/WERE cards (18 cards) Students draw a card. Read the sentence and fill in the blank with the correct past tense form of ‘to be.’ Sort the card onto the correct igloo. Find it in my TPT Store. 
Winter Articulation This download is 71 pages in length and includes articulation game for the sounds R, S, S blends, and TH. This game is for your readers, so the target sounds are later developing (and my most commonly targeted!) I also included blank penguin cards in case you need to make another sound. The pack includes 189 /r/ and /r/ blends, 81 /th/ cards, 126 /s/ blends, and 108 /s/ cards. Each game comes with a title page (this is what I place on the outside of my ziplock storage bags!) 
The sound cards each have penguins on them. This /r/ set includes vocalic r, prevocalic r and r blends. 
While you play, watch out for the Blizzard cards! If you draw a blizzard, put all your cards back. Keep all your penguins on a your igloo! Brrrr! Have fun! Find it in my TPT Store. Plenty more winter themed activities are in the works on my desktop! Hoping to share with you after the long week of conferences!
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Aah cold winters are finally about to come, i just love the winters a lot.. And so my little one’s, i know about these activities and my children would love to enjoy them..
Love it all! So so cute 🙂 Also I’m having a holiday freebie linky party tomorrow if you’d want to link up! Thanks for all you do!
Lauren
Busy Bee Speech
How do you use the fill-in-the-blank activities with pre schoolers/kinder students?? I’m having a hard time with that! I’ve been reading the card (ex: ” ____ walked her dog”) and then I try to ask what goes in the blank, but it seems to hard for them. Any suggestions?
With kiddos that don’t have the skill yet i usually spend some time teaching the skill ( I usually use a picture of a girl and a boy for he and she) then practice a boy is he a girl is she. I will look through books or any stimulus cards that I have and we will label he and she based on boy and girl. Then I would use specific stimulus cards for he or she and I scaffold them by first asking are we talking about a boy or girl. If it’s a boy we recall the boys are he’s if it’s a girl girls are she’s… then I read the cardto “—- walk her dog” and see if a child can fill in the blank. If he cannot can I give him 2 choices ” he walked her dog” or “she walked her dog”and and by then usually the child gets it correct if not I just model the correct answer. I do the same thing for “is/are” any of those words are you working on filling in the blank… first teach the skill then practice with a visual cue and then 2 choices and eventually independent completion I fill in the blanks. I hope that’s the question. I’m sure other people do it different ways but this is the way that I’ve found to be the most effective!
Once again, you’ve outdone yourself with these activities! I am not a SLP, but I work with my son who has apraxia a lot at home. I’m always trying to keep it fresh. I love your ideas. http://www.jakes-journey-apraxia.com