Moe the Mouse® Speech and Language Development Program

Must have completed the training workshop and successfully obtained a certificate in order to borrow kit. Please provide scanned copy of certificate if you wish to borrow this kit.

1 Moe the Mouse stuffed animal

Surprise bag (large cloth bag)

Child size clipboard

Strips of Velcro

4 Native Northwest stuffed animals: frog, crab, loon, salmon

8 Stuffed Animal House animals: eagle, black bear, howling wolf, chipmunk, beaver, grey owl, moose, raccoon

3 Folkmanis finger puppet animals: bat, hummingbird, raven

Moe's photo album (cerlox bound book of digital colour photos)

Moe the Mouse program materials and activities (cerlox bound book)

Moe and Me Booklet 1 (take home)

Moe and Me Booklet 2 (stay at school)

Technical page (instructions for printing CD contents)

Raven and eagle

The big hungry bear

3 scene sheets (I can run, i can fly, I can swim)

match up cards (2 sheets)

match up boards (three sheets)

6 message cards

15 animal images with 15 sound pictures ("match up" sheets) and 15 match up sheets

1 Moe house

1 Moe Pouch (small cloth bag)

Moe the Mouse® Curriculum Box is an innovative early speech and language resource that uses Aboriginal toys and stories to enhance language development in children ages 3–5. The activities and materials in the curriculum box help parents and educators provide opportunities for children to practise language skills in natural settings. Doing these activities helps children develop: social language use, comprehension of spoken words, vocabulary, discrimination of speech sounds, ability to pronounce speech sounds, knowledge of preposition words (e.g. above, beside), and the ability to express feelings and ideas. These activities become part of the regular early learning and child care program curriculum and do not require specialized clinicians nor do they need to take place in clinical settings.

Making the Most of Moe: A Workshop for Parents and Early Childhood Educators was developed and is owned by Anne Gardner and Margaret Chesterman. Anne and Margaret are Speech-Language Pathologists who developed the Moe the Mouse® Speech and Language Curriculum Box for the BC Aboriginal Child Care Society (BCACCS). These workshops are scheduled by BCACCS and presented throughout British Columbia. They are facilitated by either Anne or Margaret. Workshops are approximately five hours long, and are designed for early childhood educators, parents and others involved with young children. Audio-visual and printed materials are used to train people how to use the Moe the Mouse® Speech and Language Curriculum Box.