A Streamer Rainbow--printable directions and communication board

Let's get ready for spring!   In one week, the grass started growing, flowers began blooming, birds were gathering twigs for nests, and everyone dug out their spring wardrobes.  This is a great time of year to make "Streamer Rainbows" (I got the idea here from Mom's Crafty Space.)  Here are the visual directions developed on the iPad using Pictello.  Pictello is a great iPad app and if you are curious to how I've used it in the past, check this out.

This activity is great for following sequenced directions, requesting materials, and commenting.  I also showed a Rainbow Song YouTube video to start, and on a subsequent post will share a Rainbow book that I downloaded and created icons for.  Those of you who are therapists can share with teachers and parents! It doesn't hurt kids to have the same lesson presented by two different people.  They might learn the language more in depth.

iPad with Pictellow directions

Communication Board in Boardmaker

asking for cotton

Communication Board in pdf


Step by Step Photo and written directions for the Streamer Rainbow in pdf














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Shamrocks Everywhere---a printable book

After a brief lull here, I'm getting back up to speed. 

So here is my latest very simple activity perfect for St. Patrick's Day.  It's totally a spinoff from a very popular blog entry that I wrote earlier about Valentine's Day; I just substituted shamrocks. With this booklet, there are icons to go with every page, plus a patterned sentence calling for a fill-in.  This is great for early literacy, vocabulary, speaking in simple sentences, and for the concept of 'on'.  If you want to extend this to articulations---'SH' comes to mind!  Images were created with Smarty Symbols for which I have a commercial license.

For a modest price, you can purchase this along with other St. Patrick's Day materials on Teachers Pay Teachers.

 Go here to see for yourself!

  I'm a big believer in Joint Action Routines---once you establish a routine with a child, you can change the activity a little, and give the child a chance to learn new vocabulary, but with the same routine.  This book is an example of that---earlier it was Hearts Everywhere, now it's shamrocks!   Have fun!







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