Talk Like a Pirate Day is one of my favorites days in speech. Obviously.
This year I’m linking up with Ashley from Sweet Southern Speech to talk about all of the fun things I have planned for this fun day – which typically lasts a week in my speech room!
One of my students’ favorite games is ALWAYS Pop Up Pirate. It’s great as a reinforcer for any age because it makes for a quick turn. It’s also good for the little ones because you can work on requesting top/bottom, and “in”. The Peachie Speech has companion for this game targeting articulation!
A couple years ago a colleague found this bin in the Target Dollar Spot and bought it for me 
It’s great for simple location concept tasks.
Even more fun when you use these skull erasers that are out now for Halloween! (Also from Target $ spot.)
The other favorite game in my closet is Cariboo. If you’re lucky enough to own the elusive game, you may want to grab my Cariboo Cards: Themed Vocabulary for a Whole Year! It has visuals for the pirate them plus MANY more! (38 to be exact).
This year I planned a new craft for my preschoolers. We are going to make speech and language treasure chests.
Each student will get a “speech” or “language” treasure chest depending on his/her goals. Students will glue on “gold coins” – containing their speech and language targets, of course!
Glitter makes everything cuter. And the fact that the treasure chest can be opened or closed adds a fun touch.
A quick easy way to get all of your coins done is to use this handy 1 1/2 inch hole punch. I’m pretty sure I’ve become a hole punch hoarder. I have a bunch of sizes in circles and squares and use them all the time! Here’s the one I used for this project. Or if you really don’t feel like cutting circles, you can just cut them into squares using a paper cutter.
When I worked in with elementary-aged students, this was one of my go-to books! Not only is it great for articulation carryover, the vocabulary in it is fantastic. It’s written by an SLP.
Find my book companion by clicking the image below.
I have lots more pirate activities for a range of ages and goals in my TpT store. You can find them all here!
My favorite, by far, is my pirate sensory treasure hunt. I wrote a more in depth post about it last year. Find it below:
(reposted from 9/18/15)
Talk Like a Pirate week will be spanning two weeks in my speech room. In NY, we had/have off on Monday 9/14 and Wednesday 9/23, so that’s two short weeks in a row. That’s just not enough time for me to get all my pirate in that I want!
Since I work with such little ones now, I’ve been wanting to use my plethora of treasure chests as sensory bins. I scoured Amazon and found tons of great supplies for it!
My family and friends are well aware of my pirate obsession, so I have about 3 of these treasure chests that family members have given me. I used the one below for my sensory bin because it’s the biggest. It’s also got great, sturdy rope handles on either side, which make it easy to transport. (Here’s one from Melissa and Doug that looks nice. You know their quality is always awesome!)
I purchased all of this loot from Amazon and various dollar stores. Yes, some are from St. Patrick’s Day and Mardi Gras; the kids won’t care!
These are the gold coins I purchased. I bought two bags and supplemented with coins of varying sizes and colors from the dollar store (found around certain holidays).
These small jewels are my favorite! It’s a really good size bag for not a lot of money. There are a bunch of different colors and just look really cool all mixed together. I got two bags. They’re sort of jagged shaped and not perfect “diamond” shapes. The diamond shaped ones can be found here. These are awesome, also! I’m so glad I got both kinds.
This package of jewels is AWESOME, but hard to come by. My mom actually found them in the spring (around wedding season) at The Christmas Tree Store. The package of blue ones had actually been opened and was probably missing some, so my mom even got a discount on them! I think it cost $1! She was also able to find a new package of yellow ones. I love that there are many different sizes.
For the bead necklaces, I ended up cutting most of them. That way, I have straight strands of varying sizes. All of these sizes and colors are great for targeting basic concepts: long/short, big/little, colors, shapes, etc.
With all of the “treasure” in the chest, it looks like this!
So inviting and fun!
Most of my preschoolers have phonological goals that focus on initial and final consonant deletion. I made this pack to use in conjunction with my sensory bin. It contains 48 final consonant deletion card plus corresponding minimal pairs as well as 60 initial consonant deletion cards with corresponding minimal pairs. The majority of target consonants are early developing and simple for my preschoolers to produce.
Today a little friend worked on initial consonants. I buried the cards in the treasure and he went hunting!
I kept the reference sheet up in the lid in case we needed to compare productions.
You can find this product in my TpT store. In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, it will be 25% off all weekend! (Sale ends Sunday Sept 20, 2015.) Find it here.
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