This week’s recipe is the perfect sweet treat to make with your kiddos right before the Easter Bunny’s arrival! They are light and slightly chewy and when you whip up and bake these fluffy creations, they closely resemble a rabbit’s cottontail! These cookies are a tradition in my family—We have made them year after year during the week [...]
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Peter Cottontail Cookies—with speechsnacks for “Collect the Cottontails” game
March 23rd, 2013 
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EGG-streme EGG-tivities for Spring and Easter!
March 16th, 2013 Cooking Up Good Speech! This week’s post is filled with enough activities to keep your kiddos busy until Peter Cottontail comes hopping down the bunny trail! I’ve included 1–a recipe for BIRD’S NEST COOKIES that are kid-centered and good for you! 2–a craft project that uses recyclable materials to make your very own bird’s nests in the therapy room [...]
Warm Up Your Winter with Snowman Soup..and speechsnacks for “Oxymoron Match-Up!”
January 1st, 2013 Cooking Up Good Speech! The holidays may be over, but you can enjoy a warm cup of Snowman Soup all winter long! This week’s recipe post is a simple one, but a great way to address direction following and sequencing. While you are sipping your soup, head over to my Teachers pay Teachers store—I just opened for business!!! It includes [...]
Using Gingerbread Man Cookies to Teach Language Skills
December 15th, 2012 Cooking Up Good Speech! I’m not sure how your students behave during the week before a big holiday, but in the places I work, they are usually “in rare form” as we prepare for a long vacation break!! So to keep them motivated, interested and focused on the task at hand, I like to get in the holiday spirit with a fun, hands-on activity that will [...]
Chocolate Covered Christmas Mice! with speechsnacks for sequencing, categorizing and grammar fill-in’s
November 24th, 2012 Cooking Up Good Speech! ”….Not a creature was stirring, not even a (chocolate) mouse.” This week, I’ve taken a line from one of the most recognizable holiday poems of all time, and turned it into a “speechsnack!” Included in this week’s freebie downloads: a recipe card with simple instructions for making your own “mice,” categorization cards for brainstorming [...]
