Summer Fun!

Summer is in full swing! I don’t know about you, but those lazy days of summer feel like they are outside of our reach. With summer, therapeutic services often take a backseat, but that doesn’t need to be the case. Speech language skills can coincide with summer fun. This is the time to get out there, create memories, build confidence, connect with others, and refill our tanks for all the good things to come (or the challenges to come). Summer is a great time to continue to practice those skills that have already been established, but it’s also a great time to learn new skills as school is on the horizon.

One way to build those memories to to create a simple journal. Each day (or week if your days are busy) sit down with your child and draw a picture of the most memorable (favorite or least favorite) of the day. Once the picture is drawn take some time to ask those questions and create a sentence or two together to describe your day. I find that using the sentence starter of “Today was a …..day because…”. You can have them give it a one through five star day, a thumbs up/down day, or describe it (great, horrible, hard, fun). As you write down these memories, keep them together and at the end of the summer you can spend a night looking over it together. It will also help in that first week of school when the teacher will inevitably ask “Tell me about your summer.”.