{"id":8309,"date":"2023-05-08T09:09:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2023-05-08T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T13:09:20","slug":"spring-language-scavenger-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/spring-language-scavenger-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Language Scavenger Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By: Julie Aills, M.A., CCC-SLP<\/h3><p>April Showers Bring May Flower! This is the perfect time of year to turn your trip to the park or walk around the neighborhood into a spring scavenger hunt.\u00a0 Regardless of the season or the weather, heading outside is always a great\u00a0speech-language activity! We\u2019ve made two spring scavenger hunt checklists. You can use ours, or make your own!  Here are just a few of the many language skills you can target while on a scavenger hunt:<\/p><ul><li><strong>Describing:<\/strong>&nbsp; Describe an object by stating its category, size, shape, and color. You can also try comparing and contrasting two objects to work on similarities and differences.<br><br><\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Following Directions:<\/strong>&nbsp;Try incorporating basic 1- and 2-step commands with spatial concepts (e.g. between, under, next to) and sequential concepts (e.g. first\/then\/last) to target receptive language skills (e.g. \u201clook under the bench\u201d or \u201cfirst find the blue flower, then find a yellow flower\u201d).<br><br><\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Vocabulary:&nbsp;<\/strong>Your child\u2019s vocabulary is continuously growing. Label different objects and use a variety of adjectives to describe them: fast, shiny, loud, heavy, bumpy, etc. By introducing more objects and descriptive terms each week, your child\u2019s receptive and expressive vocabulary skills will continue to grow. For our early communicators, try modeling core vocabulary such as: look, see, up, down, on, help.<br><br><\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Narrative Language:<\/strong> Help your child take pictures of what they find on their hunt. Then later, use the pictures to let your child retell what they did and found on their scavenger hunt (e.g. \u201cFirst we found this leaf next to the bench. Then we went to the playground and found the yellow flower.\u201d).<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt-768x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8313\" width=\"384\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt-256x256.png 256w, https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt-1-768x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8314\" width=\"384\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt-1-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt-1-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt-1-256x256.png 256w, https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Spring-Fall-Scavenger-Hunt-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/3-summer-activities-you-can-use-to-target-speech-and-language\/\">3 Summer Activities You Can Use to Target Speech and Language!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/spring-language-scavenger-hunt\/\">Spring Language Scavenger Hunt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/early-characteristics-of-autism\/\"><strong>Early Characteristics of Autism<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/talk-tips-to-go-targeting-articulation-at-home\/\">Talk Tips To Go: Targeting Articulation at Home!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/talk-tips-to-go-festive-february-speech-language-activities\/\">Talk Tips To Go: Festive February Speech\/Language Activities!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Julie Aills, M.A., CCC-SLP April Showers Bring May Flower! This is the perfect time of year to turn your trip to the park or walk around the neighborhood into a spring scavenger hunt.\u00a0 Regardless of the season or the weather, heading outside is always a great\u00a0speech-language activity! We\u2019ve made two spring scavenger hunt checklists&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92,46,13,93],"tags":[63,75,60,253,61,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8319,"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions\/8319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbusspeech.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}