Today I'm posting a folder game with a summer-theme. Where we live, the kids are already back in school, but the summer heat has not relinquished at all! Therefore, I'm still dreaming of the beach (I grew up near the water).
I made three different versions of the folder games to give you a little variability.
- Early Language: For the early language kids, I created a game that matches numerals to dots (counting, one-to-one association) and another to you must match uppercase letters to lowercase letters.
- Elementary Language: This game is for early readers. This folder game matches words to pictures.
- Articulation: If your child works on articulation, print the blank folder game and write a speech word on each blank beach ball. Once all words have been practiced, then your speech practice time is over!
- Pre-Talkers: You could always print off the beach balls with the pictures. Use the pictures to really build some language and vocabulary. Describe each picture and what it is like in real life. You could even make these into flash-cards instead of a folder game - whatever works best for you.
- Listening: This can easily become a great listening game for kids who are deaf/hard of hearing. If your child is working on listening for comprehension, then print all three, but for a little different purpose. Make a folder with only the beach balls with numbers, a folder with one set of letters (upper or lower case), and a folder with the beach balls with pictures. Cover your mouth (so your child can't read your lips), say one of the items in the folder, and have your child find the correct beach ball. If your child is a bit older and is listening to phrases or sentences, you could use the beach balls with pictures and describe a picture using one simple sentence (ex: "You find this in the sky" - answer is the sun) and have your child deduce which picture you are describing
Also, a book that would go great with these folder games is, Senses at the Seashore, by Shelley Rotner. The book uses real pictures (not drawings) and talks about using all 5 senses at the seashore.