Author: Phillip and Hannah Hoose
Illustrator: Debbie Tilley
Age: early elementary, elementary, middle school
Description: A boy has to decide whether to squish an ant, or not. He is persuaded by friends and the perspective of the ant itself.
Goals/Concepts:
Perspective Taking Social Skills Narrative/Retelling Tone of Voice
Why [...]
Title: The Runaway Bunny
Author: Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator: Clement Hurd
Age: preschool, early elementary, elementary
Description: A little bunny decides that he wants to run away from his mother. However, she won’t allow it, and finds a way to always follow him wherever his imagination takes him.
Goals/Concepts:
[...]
Author: Robert Burleigh
Illustrator: Joanna Yardley
Age: preschool, elementary school
Description: Ben sets up an elaborate train excursion in his room that takes him up, around, through, and under trees, farmhouses, tunnels and towns. It all starts with a drawing…
Goals/Concepts: Motor planning
[...]
Author: Stuart J. Murphy
Description: Percy is a cute giraffe who restricts the fun of others with his raucous play on the playground until he learns how to “play it safe”.
Goals/Objectives:
Body language
Motor planning
Friendship
Social skills
Safety awareness
Respecting one [...]
Author: M. Christina Butler and Tina Macnaughton
Description: A little bear wakes from his winter nap and has no one to enjoy the snow with. He decides to build a snowman to play with and meets some friends along the way.
Goals/ objectives:
Narrative/Retelling
Early inferencing and predicting
Why questions
animal/winter [...]
Title: Red Sled
Author: Lita Judge
Description: A little girl leaves her sled outside at night, and realizes that she is sharing it with many forest animals!
Goals/ objectives:
Early narrative (simple sequence story) Perspective taking Early prediction Emotion/Facial Expression Vocabulary (forest animals: moose, raccoons, opossum, porcupine, etc.) Social Pragmatics Speech Production
Why [...]
Title: Don’t Wake up the Bear
Author: Majorie Dennis Murray
Description: A sleeping bear becomes a warm, comfy place for many animals to keep warm in the cold. But this becomes a problem when a mouse with a cold wakes up the bear.
Goals/ objectives:
negation and contractions (“don’t”) sequencing/ Retelling early prediction [...]
Title: Santa’s Stuck
Author: Rhonda Gowler Greene
Description: Santa eats a few too many sweets and gets stuck in the chimney. His only hope of escaping is the team effort of his reindeer, and the pets of the house.
Goals/concepts:
Phonological Awareness (rhyming) Speech Production (s-blends, /l/, /s/) Early Narrative Why Questions Early Prediction Reading [...]
Title: I’m a Turkey
Author: Jim Arnosky
Description: The life of a turkey from his own perspective.
Goals/concepts:
-phonological awareness skills (rhyming)
-why questions (i.e. ups and downs of being a turkey, why must they be careful, etc.)
-Discussion around body language (i.e. discuss how they communicate “without words”)
-perspective [...]
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Book: little blue and little yellow
Author: Leo Lionni
Age: preschool, elementary school
Description: Best friends, little blue and little yellow, have lots of fun playing together. When they hug each other, their color changes, which creates a problem. This story about friends, family, and fun can be read and played [...]
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We believe apps can bring people together! To that end, we have developed:
The Social Adventures© App!!
Social development activities in your pocket!!
Dr. Lynne Kenney interviewed us on her blog radio program, Dr. Lynne Weighs In because she and many of the families in her practice have been using the Social Adventures app. You can listen to the interview HERE!
We are super excited that Mandy Nite recommended our Social Adventures app on her blog, Welcome to Their World Apps. Mandy reviews apps for kids ages preschool to 6, so please be sure to check out her other reviews!Learn more... watch our Youtube Videos
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The Bag Game©!!
Have you been looking for an app that will get kids playing together?
This app is the ticket. Fun with friends for .99 cents!
Check out these awesome reviews from SLP's:
Aubrey Klingensmith over at Speechie Apps, reviewed our Bag Game app! You can read it, here. While you are there, be sure to check out her other great reviews!!
Sean Sweeney over at Speech Techie also review our Bag Game app! You can read his review, here or on TherapyApp411, a fabulous app review site for educators and therapists.
Find out more - watch our video!
These Make Us Really Proud :)
Our Bag Game app has been included in the Kindertown app as a recommended resource for educators! Woo Hoo!!
We are so honored to have been included in Education World's Top 25 Blogs for Educators. Please make sure to check out all of these wonderful blogs!
We are proud to announce that we were mentioned among a number of wonderful blogs written by SLP's in an ASHAsphere article written by Heidi at Pediastaff
Dr Lynne Kenney, the Family Coach, listed the Social Adventures app in her March Newsletter as a helpful resource for children learning to manage their feelings. We are so honored!!
Thank you to all of you who voted us "TOP 5" for the Edublog Best New Blog Award!
We are thrilled to have been featured on Pediastaff.comTwitter
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