March really snuck up on me but luckily I have a great stash of spring-themed activities to use with my preschoolers! I do both a whole group language lesson (circle time) and small group centers language lessons with my preschoolers with autism. Here are my lesson plans for 4 weeks of spring-themed preschool group speech activities! They include books and activities from my TPT store, commercially available books, and FREEBIES!
Week 1:
Circle Time Preschool Group Speech
Interactive Book: Butterfly, Butterfly What Do You See? Interactive Book – interactive book in the style of “Brown Bear, Brown Bear” – targets spring vocabulary, picture matching, answering questions
Song: Eensy Weensy Spider from Super Simple Learning
Small Group Centers
Interactive Cut and Glue Book: Butterfly, Butterfly What Do You See? Interactive Book : students create their own black and white version of the book we read during circle time
Interactive Sentence Flips Bugs and Birds: interactive activity for practicing prepositions (in, on, and under), answering “where” questions, and sentence expansion
Week 2:
Circle Time Preschool Group Speech
Interactive Book: What’s in Bunny’s Basket Interactive Book – interactive book that targets answering “what” questions related to spring vocabulary and simple inferencing
Commenting Board: What is your favorite spring thing? (included in the What’s in Bunny’s Basket Interactive Book pack) – practices answering questions, asking questions, and making comments
Song: Eensy Weensy Spider from Super Simple Learning
Small Group Centers
Interactive Cut and Glue Book: What’s in Bunny’s Basket Cut and Glue Book (black and white version of the book we read during circle time
Free Spring Categories Cut Color and Glue Pages: freebie for sorting items into categories!
Week 3
Circle Time Preschool Group Speech
Interactive Book: Freebie! Bunny Needs a Bath Interactive Book – targets answering questions, labeling colors, and lengthening utterances
Commenting Board: What Color is Your Favorite? (from Communication Boards – Visuals for Commenting, Questions, and Increased Language)
Song – The Way the Bunny Hops by The Kiboomers
Small Group Centers
Interactive Sentence Flips Bugs and Birds: interactive activity for practicing prepositions (in, on, and under), answering “where” questions, and sentence expansion
FREE Spring Prepositions Cut and Glue Book: extra practice for prepositions that student’s can take home
Week 4
Circle Time Preschool Group Speech
Book – “Bear Wants More” by Karma Wilson – fun book with the repetitive line “Bear wants more” which is great for practicing imitation and eliciting “more” by signing or using AAC devices
Song – The Way the Bunny Hops by The Kiboomers
Small Group Centers
FREE Spring Sequencing Cut and Glue Worksheets – choose from 3, 4, or 5 step sequences based on the skill level of the student
Those are my spring preschool group speech therapy lesson plans! I hope you find them useful! Happy Spring!