Dots Game

I do a lot of "drill and kill" with my kids so I like to play games too, to make it more interesting for them, and me. Here is a game that is very common, not a new idea at all. I would say it for kids in at least 2nd grade on up, some of the younger students did not understand the concept of the game.
1. You need a few rows of dots, There has to be an even number of dots across and going down, but it doesn't matter how many.

2. The object of this game is to get the most squares with your name or initials in it. Each time it is your turn you must put a line between two dots, vertically or horizontally only. You  may only make one line per turn unless you complete a box with your line. Then you make one line after completing a box.

In the end, whoever has the most boxes with their name's in it, wins. Towards the end it goes pretty quickly because if you complete a box with one line and make it possible to complete another box with your next line, you can get a whole bunch of boxes in a row.

This is what the end result looks like. My students were rather evenly matched and had the good luck to tie! 

McDonald's french fry articulation

This idea isn't originally my idea, it's been circulating around pinterest and blogs for years. I just tweaked it a little and thought I'd share!

Basically it's just popsicle sticks with artic words on it. My students today came up with a way to kind of play a game. Each student gets two dice and  when it's their turn, they roll them. How ever many it lands on (added together), is how many times they have to say their word. I don't know why, but getting to roll dice was oddly motivating for them.

TH "Would you Rather" Carry Over Activity

I have a few older students working on TH carryover. They are both artic only, and are very bright students. They loved this game, because it is slightly silly, but still school appropriate!

The last one is just a template if you want to make more and have them be the same size. To print or save to your computer, click on the image. Once it comes up full screen, right click on it and click "save as." Name it whatever you want to, and save it to your computer. Then you can go to where you saved it and print it. If you have trouble with that, comment and I'll see if I can fix that or give better instructions.

Delayed Auditory Feedback-- Water pipes

I've been meaning to buy these water pipes since I first saw them in the little hardware store. They are two water pipes put together that are the perfect length so that you can talk into them and hear it in your ear pretty well. I know Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) is commonly used with people who stutter, so they hear themselves about a millisecond after they've said it and it somehow tricks the brain into stuttering less. I don't have any fluency students so I'm just using it with artic kids. I know that a lot of kids will get into a habit where they don't even hear themselves saying phonemes incorrectly, so I'm going to see if this will help. At any rate, the kids love it and it's a fun motivator!

The board game pictured is just a minion game I made up over winter break. The board is like most board games, you roll the dice, move that many spaces and so on. The part I added to mix it up is the second huge dice. The big dice has 6 different minions and each have a one-part direction on it. For example one says " Do 7 jumping jacks." They get to roll the big dice after practicing their artic words.