Speech therapy calendar activities are so much fun and can incorporate a wide variety of skills and goals. There are so many ways to use speech therapy calendar themes in therapy to help our students. From teaching calendar skills to themed therapy, to daily speech/language calendars of activities.
Speech Therapy Calendar
How many times have you tried to ask your students about the season or month you were in or the order of the months of the year, and they were unable to adequately express them? I have so many students who are unable to differentiate between seasons/months/holidays.
Because of this, I have compiled some activities to teach calendar skills. I have also added and incorporated some themed and monthly calendar activities to add into your therapy rotation. I hope this will have everything you need to start using speech therapy calendar activities right away.
SLP School Calendar
Almost every pre-k and early elementary school classroom start their day with calendar time during circle time. But how are our students supposed to participate in these classroom activities if they do not understand different calendar parts and features? That’s where we come in. Calendar skills are so important for kids so that they can learn about and understand time, passing time, how to keep/read a schedule, planning ahead, planning for big events, and understanding due dates.
Calendar Concepts
The following are some of the key concepts that our students will need to understand in order to participate in calendar time:
- Days of the week
- Weekdays vs weekends (or school days vs non-school days)
- Yesterday, today, tomorrow
- Months
- Dates/numbers on a calendar
- Holidays and special events
- Seasons
- Daily weather and basic weather patterns
Visuals are key when teaching these concepts and visual schedules and calendars can be a huge help. There are also lots of fun songs to help teach these concepts.
Check out this free and editable visual schedule available in my freebie library.
Day/Week/Month
When using a big monthly calendar, you can mark off the day each day to visually show the difference in time for a day, vs week, vs month. Be sure to talk about what the little numbers on the calendar are for and what number the month could be. Writing out the full date is a good way to show each of these. You can also incorporate the sun and moon into these concepts. That will give your early learners a concrete way of knowing how a long day is and day vs night.
Concepts of Time
Understanding time is a key component for later developing skills for a lot of our kiddos and should not be overlooked. Teaching yesterday, today, and tomorrow is important for understanding past, present, and future. These skills are needed for later developing language skills such as answering when questions and understanding the sequence of a story.
Speech Language Calendar of Activities
For my younger classes and full-time ESE classes, I like to collaborate with the teachers on what themes they are using to help carry over these concepts. A lot of time times, at the beginning of the year, we will do a unit on the sun and moon, weather, and seasons. Working together to make sure we are using the same vocabulary and concepts is a huge help to our kids and keeps everyone on the same page. Working together is beneficial for everyone involved!
Speech Therapy Theme Calendar
Who doesn’t love a good them for therapy? I like to have a general idea of what topics I am going to hit during the school year, leaving some flexibility for student interests and current topics/events. You can fit all kinds of different activities for all varieties of goals into almost any theme. So even working with a variety of ages (grades K – 5th for me) and individual needs, I can still stick to the same overall themes and differentiate based on abilities and needs.
Seasonal
I start with my four main units based on seasons: Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer. These are my main themes and I work in holidays and other units in between them as I can.
Over in my store, I have tons of products and bundles based around each season that are little to no prep and ready to go.
Articulation:
I have a bundle of articulation worksheets for Back to School, Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer.
Articulation activities – speech therapy bundle for all year round! Speech worksheets for every season are included in this articulation activities speech therapy bundle. Over 400 everyday speech worksheets and articulation activities to be used in therapy to elicit multiple trials or to send home for extra practice. Needing more preschool articulation activities? These speech-language worksheets include multiple targets (see below) and appropriate speech worksheets for preschoolers and speech worksheets for kindergarten.
What’s Included in each set (5 sets total):
Sounds included: CV & VC words, CVC words, multisyllabic words, /k, g/, /t, d/, /s, z/ /s/ blends, /l, r/, /l/ blends, /r/ blends, & /sh, ch, dg/
Speech worksheets pdf:
- Roll & Color pages for all sounds + 1 blank
- Stamp and Say Pages (3 styles) for all sounds + 3 blank
- Cut & Paste picture scenes (3 styles) for all sounds
Speech and Language:
For speech and language activities, all in one, check out these seasonally-themed bundles that I currently have available.
Spring Speech Language Activities Bundle
Summer Speech Language Activities Bundle
Fall & Winter Coming Soon!
Or get the whole set in the (currently growing bundle) here!
Each set contains the articulation worksheets for that season, color by codes for articulation, graphic organizers for describing and writing, and cute themed crafts.
Thematic units
Other themes that I like to use throughout the year include:
- Back to School/Get to Know You
- Farm (during the Fall season)
- Halloween
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas
- Arctic Animals
- Valentines Day
- Space
- St. Patrick’s Day
- Easter
- Camping
- Ocean/Beach
Speech Therapy Homework Calendar
Having some simple, go-to activity calendars for speech therapy can be a life-savor! Whether it’s to help you plan and stay on track, or to send home with your students for extra practice over the summer. They’re a great way to stay organized!
Summer Homework Calendars for Speech Therapy
Speech therapy calendar activities for Summer homework packets. These packets include weekly (undated) activities for articulation, language (2 levels), and fluency. This speech-language calendar of activities is the perfect quick, ready-to-print packet for student Summer homework.
What’s Included:
- cover page – with space to write in goals and/or target sounds
- parent Letter
- 2 pages of articulation calendars
- 2 pages of early language calendars
- 2 pages of older language calendars
- 2 pages of fluency calendars
- graphic organizers for story narratives and describing
- blank writing page
- artic word lists
Tips for Use:
- Put together a packet for each of your students to send home with them over the summer.
- For each packet choose:
- 1 cover page
- the parent letter
- the 2 calendar pages that best fit their goals/needs
- add any of the graphic organizers (if appropriate)
- add the appropriate word lists for artic students
Freebie Theme Calendar for Planning
Check out this free, themed planning sheet in my freebie library to plan out your therapy themes for the whole year!
For more Speech Therapy Calendar Activities and Ideas:
Nonverbal Speech Therapy Homework Activities from The Gift of Gab
Speech Therapy Planning from Busy Bee Speech
Minimize Regression- Speech Therapy Home Practice from A Perfect Blend with Amanda Newsome
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I hope you found some of these ideas helpful and can use one or more in your therapy room this year. Please leave a comment or shoot me an email if you want to share some of your favorite speech therapy calendar activities.
