{"id":281,"date":"2020-03-18T08:33:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T12:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/?p=281"},"modified":"2020-03-18T08:33:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T12:33:45","slug":"speech-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/2020\/03\/18\/speech-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Speech Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here are some speech activities that are easy to do at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Play a game where you hide something and give your child specific directions on how to find it (i.e. Go up the stairs.&nbsp; Turn right and walk to 10 steps.  Look behind the pillow.)  Then have your child take a turn hiding something and giving you specific directions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Play a game where you describe an item and have your child guess what you are talking about.&nbsp; Then have your child take a turn describing an item for you to guess.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Write a sentence, cut the words apart, mix up the words, and have your child put the words in order.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Have your child name all the items they can think of that fit in a category (i.e. fruits, vegetables, etc)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ask your child imagination questions (i.e. if you were a bird, what would you see when you are flying)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Have your child make up a story.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Have your child tell you how two things are alike and how two things are different (i.e. an apple &amp; a banana; a fork &amp; spoon; a car and a motorcycle)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Simon Says<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Headbandz game (use it for describing items together, turn-taking, predictions &#8211; you can write down what the other person says to help you find out what item you have on your head)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Make a treasure hunt for the kids to find fun toys or snacks<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Name a shape and have your child go around the house and find things that are that shape<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Place objects from around the house (i.e.: spoon, crayon)&nbsp; in a pillow case or bag and have your child describe to you what each object is using specific characteristics (i.e. size, shape, color, parts, location, group it belongs to)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some speech activities that are easy to do at home. Play a game where you hide something and give your child specific directions on how to find it (i.e. Go up the stairs.&nbsp; Turn right and walk to 10 steps. Look behind the pillow.) Then have your child take a turn hiding something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/cusumano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}