“Where is the Present?” focuses on the prepositional concepts “above”, “under”, “beside”, and “on” along with other holiday vocabulary terms.  To set up the book, I placed a piece of hard Velcro above, under, beside, and on each Holiday item on every page.  I needed to make it challenging for my students so I didn’t just put 1 piece of Velcro on each page.  The students also have to visually discriminate between all the different style and color presents to find the correct one to match the present for that particular page.  If this is too challenging for some of your students you can always provide just a visual field of 2 or 3 presents to discriminate between instead of the entire page.

Holiday Picture Board

I often create different picture boards for receptive and expressive language follow-up activities.  If you would like to use a copy with you students click the link for a free copy – Christmas Identification Board

There are several different ways to can use this worksheet with your students.  For my lower functioning students I often fold the paper over so the student can only see one row a time.  Then we point to each picture in row 1 and I say each holiday item – “wreath, reindeer, present”.  If the student is verbal I have the student try to name the pictures after I say them.  If the student is non verbal I just model the words for the student.  Then I break the directions up in simple commands.  For example, “touch wreath” and after the student correctly identifies the wreath I provide the rest of the direction, “color green”.  I often only give the student a choice of 2 colors of crayons if we are still working on color concepts.  If the student does not know colors I just give student the correct color and model the color concept several time.

I continue to finish the coloring page by focusing on one row at a time and modeling all the holiday vocabulary terms.

For my higher functioning students, I have the student name all the pictures on the board or receptively identify all the pictures as I say the word.  For example, while looking at all the pictures I say “find the present” or to make it even more challenging “find something you wrap”.  Then I give more complex directions such as “find the present and color it purple”.  I either have the students go row by row or I have the students work on looking at all 12 pictures.  Sometimes I even have my students take turns giving the directions to each other.  Then the students get to choose what to find and what color to color it.  They love doing that and it works great for students working on both expressive and pragmatic language skills.

Making Pattern Wreaths!

This was a fun follow up activity after reading the book “Where is the Present?”  This was a good activity to work on following directions, color concepts, number concepts, and requesting.  Since my preschool students are working on making patterns I thought making Pattern Wreaths would help reinforce this skill.  To set up the craft I just took a paper plate and cut the middle out of the plate and then punched a hole at the top.

Then I had the students paint the outside of the paper plate green.  The students needed to request plate, green paint, and paintbrush before they could start painting.  After the students finished painting they picked out 2 different color cotton balls.  I had the students count out 5 cotton balls for each color.  Then the students line up the cotton balls in the ABAB pattern.  After gluing on the cotton balls we attached a pipe cleaner on the top.  Once the wreaths dry you can hang them up!

This was such a fun activity to do with the kids.  They turned out really cute!!!!

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