Back to SLP Home PageFebruary 2008

PRESCHOOL LANGUAGE AND MOVEMENT LESSON

By Miss Terry and Miss Sharon

This month's book is Guess How Much I Love you by Sam McBratney. The Song is The Friendship Song. (See attached).  We will be singing and acting out the song weekly. Practice the song with the movements at home with your child   In addition to these activities, we will be decorating hearts and playing with a parachute.  Happy Valentine’s Day!

Vocabulary/concepts:

Nouns

hare

friend

ears

arms

Tree trunk

feet

toes

head

river

hills

night

sky

moon

smile

 

    Actions

jump

run

clap

walk

turn

sit

stand

held

listen

guess

think

stretch

reach

wish

tumble

love

swinging

hop

laugh

bounce

kiss

whisper

 

 

 

Other

little

big

tight

long

short

wide

high

Upside down

up

down

above

across

far

Sleepy

dark

to

back

 

 

 

Other Language and Motor Planning Skills:                                                

auditory and visual attention

turn taking

auditory and visual sequential memory

Complete/complex sentences

story retelling

predicting

labeling

comparisons

following simple motor commands

Question-asking

pronouns

self-awareness

articles (a, an, the)

various verb tenses

pragmatic language

Word associations

Temporal relationships

phonological awareness skills

negation

negation

opposites

comparisons