St. Patrick’s Day Slide Deck
Looking for something fun to capture your preschoolers, kindergartners and young elementary aged students during Teletherapy sessions? Are you looking for a fun brain break that won’t completely make your students wild? Check out this fun St. Patrick’s Day slide deck to work on visual perceptual, sensory motor, fine motor skills and more.
My students have really been enjoying these hide and seek inspired slide decks.
This St. Patrick’s Day slide deck will pair the excitement of guessing the hidden object behind the leprechaun hat and then you can choose to focus on a sensory motor and/or fine motor activity based on your student's goals.
This is a great activity to use as a brain break or after some writing instruction to reinforce concepts of letter formation, sizing, spacing and/or spelling.
There are many opportunities to customize this one to meet several students needs (my favorite kind of activities so I spend less time planning!)
This one also works well for physical therapists, speech therapists, and teachers.
St. Patrick’s Day Slide Deck
This is a fun slide deck with a St. Patrick’s Day theme can work on the following skills:
Visual figure ground (being able to locate something in a busy background).
Visual closure (Being able to identify an object when only seeing a portion of it).
Visual attention (waiting for the next hidden object to appear on screen).
Receptive and Expressive Language (could target “wh” questions, vocabulary, beginning sounds, colors, shapes, etc.).
Fine motor skills (Practice writing the words, sentences or pictures).
Gross motor skills (Perform the demonstrated yoga or coordination activity)
Sensory motor skills (regulation, balance, auditory processing)
St. Patrick’s Day Visual Perceptual Activities
There are 8 different St. Patrick’s day inspired objects hidden behind the leprechaun hat to challenge your little ones visual figure ground, visual attention and visual closure skills:
Leprechaun
Shamrock
Pot of Gold
Harp
Daises
Bagpipes
Horseshoe
Rainbow
The first slide will have only a small part of the object revealed.
The second slide will have half of the object revealed.
The third slide will reveal the hidden object and have the printed word.
How to challenge visual perceptual and fine motor skills:
You can grade this activity up/down by increasing or decreasing the speed in which you change from slide to slide.
Have students copy the word onto paper or write a sentence using the word.
Add a memory challenge by saving the writing practice until the end of the game. Test your student’s memory to see how many words they can remember.
For older students, use it as an opportunity to self-correct their handwriting. Check for spacing, letter formation, sizing, placement and spelling.
St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Motor Activities
After each hidden object is revealed, there will be a sensory motor slide to encourage either imitation and motor planning of a gross motor action or a sensory experience.
The 8 slides will target:
Leprechaun-Dance like a leprechaun
Shamrock-Yoga: flower pose
Pot of Gold-Trunk strengthening
Harp-Listen to the sounds of the harp
Daises-Grow like a daisy (tree pose)
Bagpipes-Listen to the sound of bagpipes
Horseshoe-Gallop like a horse
Rainbow-Rainbow breathing
Ways to modify these sensory-motor slides
Grade each of these movements as you feel necessary to suit your child’s developmental levels.
You can also grade up or down by increasing/decreasing the amount of time the movement is performed.
Or maybe you can test your student’s memory by having them remember the movements in order and do them every time a new movement is added.
For the bagpipes and harp slides I’m also planning to have some music ready on my iphone or in a separate tab to see if my students can guess which musical selection has that instrument out of a choice of 2 musical selections.
How do I get the St. Patrick’s Day slide deck?
Sign up for your free copy of the slide deck below.
Grab the link that is sent to you and bookmark it for easy access.
The slides are not interactive so your student does NOT need remote access; however, you need to be able to screen share.
When it’s time for your teletherapy session, simply paste the link into your browser and screen share the slide deck with your student (No need to copy or have a google account!)
or
Send the link to your student via email before your session and have them screen share with you.
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I hope you enjoy this slide deck and find it useful for your students.
Let me know in the comments how you end up adapting it for your students!
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