Showing posts with label stork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stork. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Stork at Work



Wait, you work with preschool aged children and younger, right? So, you talk to/with children all day long and the topic of infertility came up?

It is true I work with children aged 5 and younger, but lately I have been working on ST blends in the beginnings of words with an articulation client (example words include STop, STay, etc. you get the point). I use a book that has lists of words that start with every letter so I don't have to come up with all of the words.

Well, the word stork is listed with the ST words. I haven't used it as a target word for this child, but it always catches my eye. I use a pictoral computer program called Boardmaker to make worksheets for the kids. You have to know the word you are looking for and it will match it to a picture. When I bought the program it gave me the option to download/import the sexual symbols as well. Not that I would have a use for them (until now), but I thought, what the hell.

So tonight I had some fun and found all of the fertility related words I could think of and put them together. I love the program for simple words found in a child's environment, but this was pretty funny!

Can you think of any others? I definitely have my personal favorites, but which ones did you get a laugh out of?

Oh yeah, it also gives you the ability to make your own pictures. So here goes: