Watch the video of one of my very favorite Spring Time books, The Very Hungry Caterpillar!

For students working on specific Speech sounds, can you find foods in your house for the caterpillar to eat that have your target sound? What is in your kitchen that has a /k/ or /s/ sound? Can you find carrots? How about strawberries?

For students working on their sentence length, use a good sentence to tell everyone what your caterpillar ate. Feel free to use the language board below to aid with sentence creation.

For students working on vocabulary building, use the Story board to describe the foods in the story. What color was the pickle? How many oranges did the caterpillar eat?

Have fun!! Let me know what you found!

This is another one of my favorite books! (You will see that a lot!)

Watch the video for We're Going on a Bear Hunt! Set up your own Bear Hunt around your house and yard. You can use the pictures below or make up your own obstacles. Many neighborhoods are doing bear hunts through the entire community! If you live near me, you will see a special bear in my window...

For students working on specific Speech sounds, make up silly words using your target sounds as you go through each obstacle. You can "say, see, so , sue sew" as you hunt for bears!

For students working on their sentence length, use a good sentence to retell the repeating line as you hunt! Tap out the syllables as you go! (Use the language board below to help!)

For students working on vocabulary building, use your toys to create the obstacles. Use prepositions words to give your family directions to the bear. "around the doll", "under the table", "behind the legos"

As always, have fun!!!

Look around your house, what crazy things is your Old Lady going to swallow?

For students working on specific Speech sounds, can you find silly things in your house for the Old Lady to swallow that have your target sound?

For students working on their sentence length, use a good sentence to retell the story as it played in the video and again using items in your house. "There was an old lady who swallowed a unicorn. She swallowed the unicorn to play with the cat." Feel free to use the language board below to aid with sentence creation. Use the left side of the board for the Core pictures and make new picture for the right side to go with what you are using for your story.

For students working on vocabulary building, look for items in your house based on a specific characteristic. There was an Old Lady who swallowed something blue (or big or soft)! Retell the story using the descriptive word. "There was an Old Lady who swallowed a blue marker!"

Have fun!! Make your stories extra silly!!

Watch the video for My Many Colored Days, tell everyone what kind of day you are having. Ask your family how they are feeling today?

For students working on speech sounds, what colors, emotions or animals in the story have your target sound(s)? Can you make up a sentence those words? Can you think of any other color names (if you have a box of 64 or more crayons at your house, there are lots of good color names in there!) with you target sound(s)?

For students working on their sentence length, Retell the story using the language board below. Then, mix up the pictures and create an all new story! For example, "The angry purple horse made the silly yellow seal happy." How many sentences can you invent?

For students working on vocabulary building, can you identify and/or name the different colors and animals on the story board? Can you identify/name the basic emotions, happy, sad, angry?

Have fun!!

I love cookies, don't you!!

Watch the video for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

Find one of your favorite stuffed animals, what would he or she want to eat in your kitchen? What will he/she need next? Then what? Use the circle map below to draw all of the things your stuffed animals needs/wants!

For students working on target speech sounds, can you find all things in the kitchen with your sound? The sound can be in the beginning, middle or end of the word.

For students working on their sentence length, use a good sentence to retell the story and to create your own story with your stuffed animal.

For students working on vocabulary building, play a game with your family. They can ask you to find something that that your stuffed animal can eat, drink, put juice in, use to eat cereal, sweep the floor, etc.

Have fun making your own stories!

I saw this and loved it so much that I wanted to share it with you!

After watching the video, can you try to say some of the tongue twisters? Use the board below to help you make up your own silly sentences! Touch the pictures and see if your family can make up silly sentences!

Do you see pictures with your target sounds? If not, get a sheet a paper and have your family help draw some pictures with your /k/ or /s/ or /f/ sounds that you can work into your tongue twisters.

We all know that our kids like to say "Mama!" constantly, what other words can they say?

Watch the video with the picture board (left), can your child touch the animal and items as they appear in the video?

Just like in the story, have Mom (or Dad, brother, sister, grandmother, anyone!) go around the house and play a naming game.

For students working on specific articulation sounds, find items around your house that start or end with that sound and ask your child to repeat the word after you. If you can find objects that have similar sounds, that will help your child discriminate sound differences. For example, if you have a play stop sign and a top, can your child use the /s/ sound to say "stop"?

For students working on vocabulary development, let your child pick an item and ask you to label it. Just for fun, say the wrong word or say "Mama!" and encourage your child to correct you.

For students working on sentence length, take turn choosing very similar items, so that you have to name more then just the noun. For example, you could have a bunch of cars and you or your child could describe the exact car that you are holding.

As always, have fun!

Pete the Cat is a new classic! It is so much fun to read and to sing!

Read and sing along to the attached video. Use the Fringe vocabulary sheet below to help.

Go around your house, what do you see that Pete might "step" in? If he did, what color would it turn his shoes? Use the worksheet to create your very own Pete the Cat story to share with your family. You can find objects for Pete to step in that have your target speech sound or based on a specific category. You can also practice creating good, complete sentences by using the pictures to retell the original story or by retelling your story to others. I can't wait to hear all of the crazy things Pete will get in to at your house!

Have fun!