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: Hush!
Author: Minfong Ho
Description: A Caldecott Honor winning story of a mother desperately trying to keep the animals of the jungle quiet as her baby is sleeping. However, little does she know that her baby is awake the whole time.
Goals:
Inferencing Reading body language Phonological awareness (rhyming) “Who?” questions [...]
Title: Curious George Visits the Zoo
Author: Margret Rey
Description: George gets into mischief again… and then saves the day again… in this relatively short episode of this classic series.
Goals/ objectives:
• Verbal description/ salience
• Inferencing/ Prediction
• Sequencing/ retelling
• Body language/ facial expression
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: 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: Carl’s Birthday
Author: Alexandra Day
Description: A mother tries to surprise Carl her dog with a surprise party. However, Carl and Madeline ,the little girl, find out on their adventure through the house.
Goals/concepts:
Narrative / Retelling (Wordless book) Speech production /k/ (Carl, cake, coat, collar) Why questions Perspective taking Verbs
Why I like this [...]
Title: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
Author: Linda Williams
Description: A walk in the woods turns into an unexpected surprise for the Little old lady. She meets some visitors along the way who follow her home to try to scare her.
Goals/concepts:
-sequencing
-narrative /Retelling
-Halloween vocabulary (jack’o lantern, [...]
Book: Tuesday
Author: David Wiesner
Age: Elementary
Description: When the sun goes down on Tuesday, frogs are given the power to fly on their lily pads. They travel all over the town, in this book which is all but wordless.
Goals/Concepts:
reading body language narrative language/ retelling inferencing/ prediction perspective taking
Why I [...]
Book: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell
Author: Lucille Colondro
Age: Preschool, Early Elementary
Description: This story follows the same sequence as the little old lady who swallowed a fly. However, this is a beach theme, with the little old lady swallowing sand, water, sea gulls and more.
[...]
Book: Waking up is Hard to Do
Author: Music and Lyrics by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, Children’s Lyrics by Neil Sedaka, Illustrated by Daniel Miyares
Age: Preschool, Early Elementary
Description: A young alligator goes through his morning routine getting up and ready for school. His engine is running low [...]
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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.
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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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