Themes are my best friend when planning therapy. They give you launching point to find activities, resources, crafts, or other activities to address all of your students' goals and objectives. When you follow a theme schedule it will also streamlines your organization, I create bins with books and materials related to the theme. After using this method for a couple of years, you work is done! I have built 2-3 years worth of cycles of activities that are tucked away on a shelf ready to go (I cycle different books and activities out each year so students don't get bored with the same stuff). I do the same for my digital files. I have a folder for each month and then a folder within in that for each theme. I am going to share an example of one of my theme schedules for the whole school year, hoping it will motivate you to do the same. This post will cover August-December. Look for my post on January-May in December. I have added books, crafts, TPT resources, games, and freebies suggestions for each theme. These are just to give you some ideas! You will have to tailor your selections to your unique caseload/clients. {Some of the links are Amazon affiliate}

AUGUST (I only have 2 weeks in August to plan for)

Getting to Know You

• Books: What I like About Me, Marvelous Me Inside and Out

• Crafts: About Me Rainbow Craft

• TPT Resources: Getting to Know You In Speech Therapy

• Freebies: Getting to Know You Craft, About Me Freebie

Back to School

• Books: Amanda Panda Quits Kindergarten, If You Take a Mouse to School

• Craft Ideas: Popsicle Stick School Bus

• TPT Resources: Color by Symbol: School Edition for Articulation, Back to Speech, My First Day in Speech

• Freebies: Speech Snack and Share

SEPTEMBER

School Theme (continued from August)

• Books: Unpack the Bag (Lift-A-Flap Book), There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books

• Crafts: Pack the Bag Artic Craft on TPT

• TPT Resources: Back to School No Prep Language Pack,

• Freebies: Classroom Listen Up,

Apples

• Books: Apples, Apples, Everywhere, Apple Apple Reader for Speech Therapy,

• Craft Ideas: Apple stamping, Apple Orchard Articulation

• TPT Resources: Comparing Apples , Articulation Apples,

• Games: Apples to Apples Jr.

• Freebies: Antonym Apples

Pirates! (my favorite)

• Books: How I Became a Pirate, Pirates Go To School, Where's the Treasure? Lift-a-Flap Book

• Crafts: Handprint Pirate, Buried Treasure Articulation Craft

• TPT resources: No Prep Pirate Bundle (Articulation and Language), Speech Treasure Maps, Pirates Go to School Companion

• Games: Pop the Pirate, Don't Rock the Boat

• Freebies: Feed the Pirate, Colorful Treasure Chest Basic Concepts

I have a whole post about Pirate week, read it here!

OCTOBER

Spiders/Insects

• Books: There was an Old Mummy Who Swallowed a Spider, Itsy Bitsy Spider Flip Book, Arrghh Spider!

• Crafts: Spider Hand Puppet, Spider Thumbprints for Artic

• TPT Resources: There was an Old Mummy... book companion, Spider Smush, Artic Webs for Articulation, Halloween Dice and Dot for Speech and Language

• Freebies: Artic Webs FREEBIE, Spooky Speech Craftivities, FREE Spider Thumbprint Templates

Pumpkins

• Books: Pete the Cat Five Little Pumpkins,

• Craft Ideas: Pumpking Apple Stamps

• TPT Resources: Pumpkin Patch Language Activities, Fall Language Connections

• Games: Pumpkin Ring Toss, Pumpkin Bowling

• Freebies: Five Little Pumpkins Rhyme Booklet

Halloween

• Books: Halloween Interactive Books, There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat, Room on the Broom

• Crafts: Halloween Mouth Puppets by Easy Peasy and Fun

• TPT resources: Halloween Bingo Riddles, Halloween No Prep Speech, Halloween Fun Pack for Speech Therapy

• Games: Build a Jack-O-Lantern Open Ended Dice Game

• Freebies:Build a Jack-o-Lantern, Language Book Mark for Halloween Books, Room on the Broom Printables Bats Thumbprint Art Freebie

NOVEMBER

Fall

• Books: There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a some Leaves, Awesome Autumn, Fall Weather, Leaf Man

• Crafts: Autumn Handprint Tree, Leaf Man Craft

• TPT Resources: Feed the Squirrel, Non Fiction Fall Stories, Thumbprint Leaves for Artic

• Freebies: Fall Listen Up, Fall Vocabulary Cards, What's Different Fall Freebie, Thumbprint Leaves Freebie

Thanksgiving Food

• Books: What's for Dinner? Interactive Book, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie, The Night Before Thanksgiving, Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving

• Craft Ideas: It's Dinner Time Articulation Craft

• TPT Resources: I Know an Old Lady... Companion, Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving Companion

• Freebies: Color a Turkey Dice Worksheet

• Games: Build a Turkey Open Ended Dice Game

Giving Thanks or Gratitude

• Books: Bear Says Thanks, Grateful: A Song of Giving Thanks, Thankful

• Crafts: Thankful Turkey

• TPT resources: Bear Says Thanks Companion, Thankful Mazes

• Freebies: I am Thankful for... Printable

DECEMBER (I only plan for two themes due to Christmas break)

Gingerbread

• Books: Mr. Gingerbread Buttons (Lift a Flap Book), The Library Gingerbread Man, The Gingerbread Girl, The Gingerbread Pirates

• Crafts: Build with Sounds Candy House, Gingerbread House Paper Bag

• TPT Resources: Gingerbread Man Over/Under, Gingerbread Dot Art, Where is Gingerbread Man?

• Freebies: Dress a Gingerbread Man

Holiday themes (this depends on your school guidelines)

• Books: Santa is Cold Interactie Book, Pete the Cat Saves Christmas

• Craft Ideas: Santa's Beard (with Cotton)

• TPT Resources: Christmas No Prep Language Pack, Color by Symbol Christmas,

• Freebies: Color a Santa Dice Game