#TVDSB joins school boards across Ontario to celebrate Education Week! It is a time dedicated to celebrate teaching excellence and student achievement and showcase the amazing things happening across Thames Valley.

It's Child and Youth Counsellor Appreciation Week! Thank you to all the Educational Assistants and School Support Counsellors who make a difference in the lives of #TVDSB students, every day.

Kindergarten students Springbank PS are consolidating their phonemic awareness and alphabet knowledge through building words! 📚

Spin the fidget, say the word, chop the word, write the word!! So creative!

Watch it in action ⬇️

In March & April, SLPs worked collaboratively with the Early Years and Learning Tech portfolios to offer Literacy PL to Kindergarten Educators. Information about the reading brain, learning objectives for K students and resources to support structured literacy were shared!

Awesome work! Sarah Melanson

We celebrated learning all of the sounds on the Sound Wall by having a letter party! We made name crowns, had letter mac and cheese, made letters from veggie straws, and had a disco party in the gym! Caradoc Public School TVDSBKindergarten TVDSB Speech-Language Pathology Services

Shout out to the amazing SLP Mountsfield Public School who delivered great PD at Thursday’s lunch and learn #heatmaps #data #spelling inventories #K -8 progress #literacy #team #tvdsb TVDSB Speech-Language Pathology Services

SLPs delivered several days of system Professional Learning for Secondary Developmental Education (DE) Classroom Teachers. Learning goals included understanding how and why students communicate and incorporating AAC to create accessible and inclusive spaces in DE classrooms!

On Feb. 7th Thames Valley DSB will celebrate #WorldReadAloudDay . We'll join classrooms around the world to promote the power of reading & sharing beautiful stories. Every school has a copy UNFLAPPABLE in their library + a postcard of prompts! Tweet/Post and tag about your day Thames Valley DSBLiteracy

Celebrating the magic of words and the joy of reading on Family Literacy Day! Join us as we come together to cultivate a love for learning that spans generations! 📚 ♥️

#TVDSB #Literacy #FamilyLiteracyDay 2024 #FamilyLiteracyDay #Read

Wishing a happy and healthy winter break to all! See you in 2024 ❄️✨

The elf can see the power of building oral language!

During Dinovember in FDK 141, students used the EET beads to help describe and share their knowledge of different kinds of dinosaurs. TVDSB Speech-Language Pathology Services Kristen Carne Julie Pulley

Our MLL Teacher Ms. Clarke providing intentional explicit phonics instruction with her MLL learners. Following this she engages them in topically conversation to improve their oral language. Thames Valley DSB

Wow, this is so amazing! What a great way to use the EET while exploring categories and the similarities and differences between animals. We love it!

Our kiddos are practicing with the EET! This week we focused on “trucks” after our read aloud. Students did it as a whole group, now we are doing it one on one with them Shelley Huctwith TVDSB Speech-Language Pathology Services Sir Isaac Brock PS #tvdsb #onted #language #kindergarten

I saw someone online use a stuffie to increase participation in Heggerty. So today Hedgie joined our class. Everyone was eager to show their skills for the chance to snuggle her. Then we used our EET beads to describe our new friend. Caradoc Public School TVDSB Speech-Language Pathology Services TVDSBKindergarten

Students Blenheim District Public School are modelling core vocabulary over books and snacks to their peer who uses symbols to communicate!

#CommunicationForAll #AAC #CoreVocabulary