Irregular Plural Nouns - So Much To Think About
Charlotte goes to speech twice a week at 7:20am before school. On these mornings she has to wake up before her older siblings, eat breakfast, get dressed and mentally prep to work before school.
This was hard at the beginning of her Kindergarten year, but it’s now February, and she’s got her positive mental game on. Last nights she said. “Mom - tomorrow is Tuesday, and we see Ms. Sharon.”
1) I was pumped she knew the day of the week and
2) She was right. I needed to be done with my run earlier, showered, lunches packed, breakfasts somewhat planned out and out the door with Char by 7:12ish.
Well, we made it and had a good lesson. She worked her bootie off. Below is the summary our speech therapist sent to me and Charlotte’s Kindergarten teacher. These are so helpful for me to focus and help Char at home. One idea I am going to try and do is share these weekly on this blog, as well as go back from the very first lessons when Charlotte wasn’t even a year old and catalog them. Wish me luck!
Therapy consisted of reviewing previously learned irregular plural forms. Charlotte struggled to recall the irregular form. She was most successful with familiar words such as feet, teeth, fish, dice, and children. She benefited from the written form when /f/ changes to /ves/. She consistently added /s/ to sheep and deer. With support/ reminders, Charlotte was able to correctly recall mice geese.
Please continue working on these word pairs:
Man – men
Woman – women
Child – children
Leaf – leaves
Wolf – wolves
Loaf – loaves
Sheep- -sheep
Deer – deer
Fish – fish
Foot – feet
Tooth – teeth
Goose – geese
Die – dice
Also practice writing some of the “easier” words, such as “foot”, “feet”, as we saw it was hard for her when we practiced on the white board.