Quantitative concept fun in kindergarten! SEVERAL colors, a FEW marshmallows, and NO cheerios🌈Wishing you pots of gold at the end of ALL of your rainbows! #ONERCSD Rochester City School District Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick Steve LaMorte (he/him) RCSD Math Department LaJuan White Amy Maloy RCSD Speech/Language Department Amy Alkiewicz

Singing, manipulatives, interactive technology, and a sweet treat = recipe for engaging oral language enrichment targeting FIRST, NEXT, LAST! #ONERCSD Rochester City School District Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick Steve LaMorte (he/him) RCSD Speech/Language Department Amy Alkiewicz Rhonda Morien LaJuan White Dr. D.A. Matthew

Who is in the MIDDLE? Who will catch the chick BEFORE them? The student to the LEFT👈Who will catch the chick AFTER them👉The student to the RIGHT! Singing a phonemic awareness song as we pass the chick🎶 Rochester City School District Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick Steve LaMorte (he/him) Amy Alkiewicz RCSD Speech/Language Department

First graders apply language processing skills by manipulating written language in an absurd way at the top, then demonstrating the revision at the bottom. Very proud! Rochester City School District Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick Steve LaMorte (he/him) RCSD Speech/Language Department Amy Alkiewicz Rhonda Morien LaJuan White Dr. D.A. Matthew

Will they squeeze one more student in the hula hoop?Oral language enrichment targets the basic concepts of empty, almost empty, half full, almost full, and full. Rochester City School District Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick Steve LaMorte (he/him) RCSD Speech/Language Department Amy Alkiewicz @BeatrizLeBron1 Amy Maloy Camille Simmons

Read "Just A Little Bit" and applied EQUAL, SAME, AS MANY, and MATCH to our monkey scale...just like the seesaw in the book! Rochester City School District Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick Steve LaMorte (he/him) RCSD Speech/Language Department Amy Alkiewicz Holly Place Rhonda Morien LaJuan White Dr. D.A. Matthew

Marble Run Tower concepts – pieces separated and put together for building, number of marbles (few/one/several/many), landing together/separated, putting on pieces near the tower or away, same piece or different one? Rochester City School District Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick Amy Alkiewicz RCSD Speech/Language Department

1st graders : victorious :: teamwork : rewarding RCSD School #34! Teacher vs students analogies four in a row🏆 Rochester City School District Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick Steve LaMorte (he/him) RCSD Speech/Language Department LaJuan White Amy Alkiewicz Amy Maloy @Wanda_JVargas Diana Radley

May is Better Hearing & Speech Month! Shout out to our favorite speech-language pathologists RCSD Speech/Language Department 🎉 Rochester City School District Amy Alkiewicz Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick Steve LaMorte (he/him) ASHA Rhonda Morien LaJuan White Dr. D.A. Matthew @BeatrizLeBron1 Amy Maloy Camille Simmons Ricardo Adams

Kindergarteners working in PAIRS to find PAIRS of objects on Spot It! cards👀 Rochester City School District Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick Steve LaMorte (he/him) RCSD Speech/Language Department Amy Alkiewicz Rhonda Morien LaJuan White Dr. D.A. Matthew @BeatrizLeBron1 Amy Maloy Camille Simmons Ricardo Adams Willa Powell

Mrs. Kryger is amazing! RCSD Speech/Language Department is beyond fortunate to have her on our team!!

I spy oral language enrichment as 1st graders finished a written analogy "Horse is to hoof as.....". Class favorites were animals that have paws and claws! #BHSM Rochester City School District Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick Steve LaMorte (he/him) RCSD Speech/Language Department Amy Alkiewicz Holly Place ASHA

Locating PAIRs of items and describing where to display them. ABOVE and BELOW the sunglasses. BESIDE the gloves. LAST in line. BETWEEN the green glasses and pink glasses. Great work, kindergarteners! Rochester City School District RCSD Speech/Language Department Amy Alkiewicz Holly Place Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick

As K students built monsters, they used first, second, third/ first, next, last/ beginning, middle, end/ left, right/ above, below/ beside, between/ top, middle, bottom/center, side, corner to enrich their oral language! Rochester City School District RCSD Speech/Language Department Amy Alkiewicz Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick

Celebrating our supremely talented RCSD Speech/Language Department staff! Happy belated Speech Language Pathologist Day!! Rochester City School District Amy Alkiewicz Andrea Marsh

May is Better Hearing and Speech Month! RCSD Speech/Language Department

Bravo! This class demonstrated greater than 100% growth on universal oral language progress monitoring measures targeting basic concept vocabulary🎉 John Williams School No. 5 Rochester City School District Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick RCSD Speech/Language Department Amy Alkiewicz @BeatrizLeBron1 Amy Maloy Camille Simmons

Universal language enrichment supporting all Rochester City School District kindergarten students in achieving academic success! RCSD Speech/Language Department Dr. Carmine Peluso Ruth B Turner @DeputyDStrick LaJuan White Amy Maloy

All are welcome to join the crew on Pirate Day in first grade! Culminating our language enrichment unit targeting multiple meaning words🏴‍☠️🦜🪙 Rochester City School District RCSD Speech/Language Department RCSD School #34 Dr. Carmine Peluso Ruth B Turner @DeputyDStrick Amy Maloy LaJuan White

FIRST, I read this post. NEXT, I smiled. LAST, I admired the oral language growth in kindergarten! Rochester City School District RCSD Speech/Language Department Adriana Rozestraten Dr. Carmine Peluso @DeputyDStrick Ruth B Turner