FREEBIE alert Compare and Contrast.....Please join my blog before you download..

Happy New Year Ya'll
My daughter's 2nd grade class will be doing a compare and contrast study next week so I decided to give away this freebie comparing two books

Emperor Penguins by: Grosset & Dunlap
vs.
One Cool Friend by:  Toni Buzzeo

both of which are free to read full color from wegivebooks.org
on your computer, smart boards, or laptops







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~ Alicia ~
 

SCOOTPAD: Common Core FREE practice!

You must check out this FREE

app to let your kids work on common core

activities!  ScootPad:

(for computer, kindle, android, ipad and more)

 

I think you are really going to enjoy this I know my daughter does, I have added her as a homeschooler, although she is a public schooler! But shoot fun free practice on the Ipad!  I have set up 2 rewards (braum's and 20$ gift card) but you could add 5 minutes free time, lunch with the teacher - ect!

I saw this site review over at FROM the POND

alicia

National Talk Like a Pirate Day! AAAARRRRRG!

National Talk Like a Pirate Day!  Check out Brain Pop's Featured Video Here!  AARG!

 

Alicia

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The first 3 people to follow me on my blog will get this beauty for free. 

It has awsome clip art from Scrappin Doodles that you won't want to miss. 

You can check it out at my TpT store!

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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





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