OH my goodness. This is a must have for your FALL arsenal for therapy or classroom......I hope you fall in love with this Book Companion Pack that I created to go along with...

Karma Wilson’s THE BEAR SAYS THANKS.  You can get your book here at AMAZON shipped for free with your AMAZON PRIME membership!

 

This is a great story of friendship, thanksgiving, and problem solving related to those loveable characters – BEAR and FRIENDS… 

This BOOK COMPANION PACK has several activities related to Tier 2 vocabulary that can be found throughout the book.  They can be no PREP, print and go, or you can laminate the game for durability... It will be great for speech therapy as well as regular classroom reading centers or group instruction. 

 

To Name a FEW...My kiddos love retelling the story with the characters.

(I use a large FREE stick from local Home Good STore with Velcro)

 

the interactive Bear Story slider

 

Check it out at my tpt Store and leave me some feedback when you purchase!  I love hearing from you…
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~ Alicia ~

Season Sorting

Do you have those kids when you ask what season is it? They respond Tuesday? 
Most of my language kids do not understand the concepts of days, months, seasons, states, countries, planets.....

Here is an idea that I had lots of success teaching my language therapy kids the concepts of seasons. 

Most of my kiddos in language therapy must have REPETITION, concrete objects, visual cues, verbal cues and many of them. 

Here is a little something we have been doing in speech therapy. 
The kit was from LakeShore  - weather/seasons mine is a little older and some of the materials did not look the same.

I made some sorting mats - read the story and then we practiced over and over.

Click Here for a freebie of the sorting mats you can print and try!

The book is Caps, Hats, Socks, and Mittens

by Louise Borden

Theme Box Lake Shore

I had the kids take turns sorting the objects and telling what season it was, I kept track of the percent correct and I also timed them for fun (as I collected data)

When they finished the LakeShore Kit included these cute little weather puzzles used to match the clothes you would wear in the season and the kids completed these.

It wouldn't be hard to make your own kit similar to this!

Check out the Oklahoma Assistive Technology Center - Oklahoma Unit for a Sorting Folder Activity! (you need boardmaker to open but don't forget the 30 day free trial if you don't)

Hope you get some good ideas.  Alicia