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Entries from November 1, 2013 - November 30, 2013

Saturday
Nov302013

Easing back in with a Review Week

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and time spent with family. Since we took the week off last week to celebrate and count the blessings in our lives, this week we will ease back into our letter-sound of the week project with a review week. Of the 14 letters we have highlighted so far, we have covered 4 vowels (each with a short and a long sound) and 10 consonant sounds.

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Tuesday
Nov192013

Happy Thanksgiving!

This coming week is Thanksgiving week. It is a quiet holiday. Sandwiched between the glitz of Halloween and Christmas, Thanksgiving is a time to slow down, quielty reflect and count our blessings. Not just for the tangible things we have, but also to be grateful for those intangibles. In therapy, we have been talking about being thankful for little things (like that peppermint mocha I had this morning) and big things (like family and friends who love and support us).

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Thursday
Nov142013

Letter of the Week: T

Thanksgiving is coming! We are talking about gratitude/thankfulness all month and have a subtle Thanksgiving theme. However, while Thanksgiving starts with the letter 't', it starts with the 'th' sound. And we are not ready to go there, yet. So, next week as we highlight the letter/sound 't' we'll be talkin' turkey! ‘T’ is a consonant. From a speech perspective, ‘t’ is a tip tapper. The tongue [tongue tip to be specific] is doing the work to make this sound.

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Tuesday
Nov052013

Review Week #2

O, B, X, S, A, I, F, L, P, J, M, H, and U. Whew! We are halfway through the alphabet. And now it is November. This coming Monday we pay tribute to the men and women who have served, or are serving, our country. And then in a couple of weeks we take time to give thanks for all the goodness, big and small, in our lives. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice… “The Holidays”. Busy, busy, busy. So, now through the beginning of 2014 (!) we will have several weeks of review with a few new letters/sounds sprinkled in. This coming week? A review week! You will also notice an over-riding theme all month of gratitude/Thanksgiving (with special focus on turkeys one week...but more on that in my next post).

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