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It's in the bag!
| A lot of language therapy could be described as "language immersion." You learn language by hearing language, by being surrounded by language. If I am teaching a child about prepositions, I don't start with a definition, I start with examples. |
"Each Greetings-in-a-Bag (DOWN-LODES) set is perfect for family fun with language learning activities." |
| "Put the egg in the basket."
"Put the egg next to the basket." "Put the egg under the basket." |
Sometimes the kids would get tired of twenty questions with an egg and a basket, so I started having them make pictures. In the fall, we would make a picture using leaves. At Thanksgiving, we would make a picture with turkeys and Indian corn. At St Patrick's Day, we would make a picture with shamrocks. The kids loved it; it was something they could keep. And they were so proud to show their parents what they had made!
| That's where DOWN-LODES started. I was collecting everything together. I had my lesson plans typed out with everything from instructions for using prepositions, to rhyming words, to color association and categories. And, it's all in one convenient downloadable file. Images are included as black-and-white line art, that they can color themselves, or as colored versions which you can print out from a color printer.. |  |
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While your child is creating, you can reinforce important and emerging skills
such as discriminating colors and shapes, counting, categories and grouping,
regular and irregular verbs, associative thinking, direction-following skills,
and associative thinking.
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Make a picture, an abstract design, use a folded sheet of paper to make a customized greeting card. Cut out the images and attach them to popsicle sticks to create your own puppets for a miniature puppet show.