Comments on: Try This Tuesday #18: Speech Game

By: Danette

Danette — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:42:35 +0000

Great idea! I'm with Maddy, I think bean bags would work better for us (the stress and coordination of having to throw and catch the ball would distract my sons from actually focusing on the pronouns).

My twins had a hard time with pronouns for a very long time, especially mixing up "he" and "she." I always had to ask when they told me about people at school, b/c they would often say "he" when talking about a girl, and vice versa. It took a LONG time but most of the time they get those right now. Every now and then they still mix them up but when they do, they can usually correct themselves now.

Bitty isn't using pronouns yet, but I'll keep this in mind for when he does.

By: LauraJ

LauraJ — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:32:23 +0000

As I was making some beanbags(Little squares of fabric sewn around with a little hole, then turn inside out and stuffed with rice) earlier this evening it dawned on me that perhaps the stuffed animals idea might not catch on because they aren't gender specific. So I thought how about photos of relatives. The faciliator or parent could give the bean bag to say "uncle Joe" and say HE has the bean bag. Or Aunt Jane , SHE has the beanbag and if you had a picture of a few cousins that could be the THEY have the bean bag.

By: Rickismom

Rickismom — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:22:04 +0000

Yes, I agree that beanbags makes a lot of sense.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:00:47 +0000

Great idea! I'll remember this for when we start to work on pronouns!

By: Trish

Trish — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:19:32 +0000

Thank you so much to Rickismom for sharing this great idea and her helpful drawings! I like the idea of using bean bags and I also really like using stuffed animals to play along. My son always enjoys interacting with his stuffed animals and I can even get a whole conversation out of him when I talk through them.

By: LauraJ

LauraJ — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:40:21 +0000

Living in a single parent household with one child I am having a hard time teaching this concept to my boy. Then it dawned on me, what I if I used a bean bag to play this game and used stuffed animals as the THEY SHE and HE. Aha….

By: Amazing_Grace

Amazing_Grace — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:09:44 +0000

My son had a very hard time in elementary school so I would hide a little “Love Note” in his lunchbox every day to let him know how special he was to me. It really brightened up his day and he looked forward to them each and every day.

I posted at my blog links to where you can print out "Love Notes" for free and also ideas and suggestions for all ages.

By: Cale

Cale — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:32:46 +0000

This sounds like a really good plan. I had such a problem with pronouns as a child (I replaced every pronoun with you). A game like this may have helped.

By: Maddy

Maddy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:08:22 +0000

For some reason I thought it was nearly Wednesday which is a little worrying!

Anyway, that sounds like a great idea although I think we'd have better luck with bean bags rather than a ball. Then there's the difficulty over he/she, but practice makes perfect as they say.
Cheers