Goodwill... doing the most Good!

Speechies-

Don't sleep on Goodwill! Although I probably have over 40+ board games (seriously), I did not resist going to Goodwill to see the "new" things in the gaming area. I came across some really good games (some I have had my eye on for several years). I bought six games total (one was for my personal home pleasure). They were all $3.99 and a nice lady swiped her Goodwill discount card for me. Yay! I spent roughly $21.00 all together. One game in itself is $32.00.

Hmm... want me to tell you what I purchased?

-  Mouse Trap
- Whoonu
- Cadoo
- 20 Questions for Children
- Charoodles

And for home- Outburst.

I will blog about how I have tweaked them for use in speech therapy. Some of them do not need to be tweaked as they are all focusing around using vocabulary and answering questions.  Stay tuned for more details!
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Jeopardy in Speech Therapy

Welcome Speechies!

I figured I'd get started on my blogs.

 All of my 3rd-5th graders have been working on vocabulary by way of synonyms, antonyms, multiple meanings, descriptions, etc.

This week we are playing Jeopardy!  It's weird that most of my kiddos have never even heard of Jeopardy. (I can understand if they weren't active participants of the show at home, but most showed puzzled faces when I asked them if they had heard of the show).

I have played Dina Peters (speechtherapygames.com) free PowerPoint version of Jeopardy before, but wanted to "play" it again. My students enjoyed competing last time we played Jeopardy.

My categories are: synonyms, antonyms, questions (for listening comprehension), attributes and multiple meanings.

They will be using Eggspert to "ding in" their answers:
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They will keep a count of their points by using their dry erase boards.

Final Jeopardy has four choices (labeled A-D) with the some of the same topics presented during the entire game. The person with the most points can choose which one the entire group will have to answer .

I plan to reward the winner with a McDonald's gift card.

I can use the Jeopardy board for any activity: language or articulation due to LAMINATING the board.

Materials: poster board, neon library pouches, markers, tape, and index cards.