Baseball, baseball, and more baseball!

Last night, I blogged about my articulation creation with a baseball theme. If you looked at it yesterday, I uploaded the wrong file to google docs. Well, sort of. I uploaded the document that did not have instructions with it. You could probably create the same instructions I came up with for the activity on your own, but if you want to take a peek at it, I updated the blog post. 

Today, I want to share with you my baseball categories! I have created an activity that will work on categories for those in the sorting and naming stages. 

I have created three different levels in this activity. Each level has five baseball gloves associated with it. Each glove has five baseballs associated with it. 

Here is a peek at the glove:

 Here is a peek at the baseballs:

This is most definitely in the easy level. The medium level has categories such as electronics and things that come in a can. The hard level has categories such as book authors and individual sports.

I have also put together a worksheet (or two) that can be used to go along with this activity. One is a table with areas for the category and items in each category. The other is more of a category "map". 

Here it is:

This activity can be found at my TPT Store. I have more in mind for this theme, but my time seems to be packed full with school starting soon! I'm sure you feel the same way! 

It is finished!

After a long and busy week, I have finally completed the project I anticipated would take only a few days. I am excited with the end result and plan on creating a few more things in the next few days. For now, I wanted to let you see what I have created.


I have created a game board to be used with target cards covering multiple categories. The categories include synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, heteronyms, homophones, inferences, yes/no questions, categories, WH/How questions, cause/effect questions, and expressive language tasks. The game board looks like:

It is a little different than this, but it saved me from trying to copy/paste it all over again to create an image! The changes include changing the Start/Finish to "Go!" and you can see the characters in the rollercoaster cart.


The cards look similar to this:

If you are interested in seeing all of the category options, you can go to my TPT Store and see the preview document.


I have decided that 81 pages of cards was as much as I could take up to this point. I plan on creating some basic concept cards at the request of Deb at SpeechGadget in the next few days. I didn't forget about your request Deb!


A few of the language targets can be found in individual game form on my TPT store as well, if you are interested. At this point it is only the WH question target, but more will be added as the evening continues.


An articulation game is in the making as well! It will hopefully be done in the next few days, but I won't make another promise I can't keep!


Onto the freebie! I have created two activities that allow for sentence creating to take place. One is focused on adverbs and the other adjectives. As you can see, your students can make their way around the activity mat creating sentences. The student with the most accurate sentences, at the end of the session/activity time, is the winner. This is the created for adjectives:

The other activity is a sorting activity focusing on grammar. Sorting areas include: nouns, pronouns, verbs, prepositions, adverbs, and adjectives. Tickets are included with some options for sorting, but I have a few other ideas to provide.
1. Have the students use a dry erase marker and write in the words they can think of that belong in those categories.
2. Have the students formulate sentences that include words in the categories. If you do this, you could have the students each use a different color dry erase marker and they could tally their score along with grammatically correct sentences.

To get your freebie! Click here! I hope you enjoy it! If you have any thoughts/comments/suggestions, feel free to leave them here! I would be happy to know what you think! 

Adverbs, anyone?!

I believe it is safe to say that I struggle with maintaining attention to any given task. I can't even count on my fingers and toes how many times I have tried to focus on things around my house today. Instead of completing the various tasks that await me, I find myself sitting and creating new tools for various targets. This was a light bulb moment I had while sorting my laundry, so after I had a load of light-colored clothes in the washer and a load of dark-colored clothes in the dryer, I began to create this activity focusing on adverbs.


Be creative and use it however you wish, but I plan on using it in the following way:
1. Give each student a different colored game piece.
2. Bring out the famous Super Duper die that only allows a student to roll up to 3.
3. Have the student roll the dice and the treasure map they land on provides a word that needs to be made into a sentence. For example, if a student lands on "always". The sentence could be "I will love you always." 
4. For every sentence that is formulated accurately, the student gets a point. The student with the most points at the end of the game is the winner. 


This is a pirate themed activity. Side note, I found a lot of pirate-themed items at Party America while I was there collecting gag gifts for my mother-in-law. If you are a theme unit person, you might want to check out your local party store! =)


Here is where you can find the FREE download. Please let me know if you aren't able to access it for some reason.

A glance into my TPT!

I took a break on my current creative thought to continue completing a task I have been working on for a week, or so, now. The task has been revamping my TPT store. I decided to do this because of the clip-art terms of use and a few pieces of feedback I have received. I have just added a game that I worked on a month or so ago and have just completed my editing on. 


Ack! A Pirate Game for Language

My intentions with this game were similar to the game "Sorry!". Because of all the board games out there, access to game pieces seems to be extremely easy. I hope that is true for you! If not, I have a backup plan!


I created this game with a "home" zone for the pieces to start out in. I recommend that each player maneuver through the game board using the same route. For instance, if your students choose the "long route", then every player should take the long route. This is because the red/green and blue/black colors have similar routes. If you look at the board, the amount of spaces to go around the board is the same for those color pairs, but if all colors are needed, the amount of spaces is not the same. We have to keep it fair! =)


Every piece that lands in the "home" zone safely can be moved to the pirate ship. The player with the most pieces on the pirate ship at the end of a session/game time is the winner. Backup Plan: If you do not have enough game pieces for your players, then I have provided pirates that can be given each time a game piece makes its way successfully around the game board. The player with the most pirates at the end of a session/game time is the winner!


I have created cards for synonyms, categories, and rhyming. All of the cards are able to be printed with answers available, if desired. 


Without answers:

With answers:

Here is a link to my TPT store. Here is a link to the activity. Please let me know your thoughts on this activity! I have some more ideas on cards that could be created if this "game" seems to be of interest to you!

Have a great day!

Happy 4th of July!

My husband decided to spend his evening on the golf course, which left me with a little down time. We can all use some of that every now and again! Can I get an amen?! 


Well, as I was sitting here on the couch looking at the latest terms of use for clip art across the web (more on this at a later date), I decided I would upload a 4th of July freebie. I know the 4th of July is tomorrow, but I didn't start blogging until today, so please forgive me for my timing!


So, here it is. A reinforcement activity with rockets and fireworks. The document is 6 pages, which includes the title page. There are 4 pages of rockets, with each page having 12 picture cards. 

That leaves one page, with 12 picture cards, of fireworks.

Set up is super simple. All you need to do is print out the cards, laminate them, and use them for whatever goal you are targeting. With all the cards face down in the middle of the table/work space, the students take turns answering language questions/saying articulation words. For every correct answer given, that student can select a card from the middle. If it is a rocket, they get to keep the card. If it is a firework, they have to return all of their rocket cards to the middle. The student with the most rockets at the end of a session is deemed the winner! 

I hope you have a happy and safe 4th of July. Click here for your download!