10 Apples up on Top --printables

School starting for us is a week away, so I wanted to share one of my favorite September books--- 10 Apples up on Top by Dr. Seuss.  I've used this for years and have created a few manipulatives to go with it from Boardmaker apples and scanned in images from the book.

screenshot of character pictures

Merely do a search on Pinterest to come up with more things to do.  This is a great book for counting to 10, determining 'more', 'less', and 'same', determining character feelings, and doing a story retell.  I plan on making a simple Smartboard activity for this book in the near future, so keep checking back with me if you use a Smartboard in your class!

This would work great on flannel board, but I didn't have this at home (can you believe it's Friday night and I'm at home blogging about Dr. Seuss?)  I don't have any cute kid pictures with this either since the kids don't come home with me, and they are still on vacation anyway!

  Velcro each piece with the prickly stuff, and use the flannel board background.  Kids love putting the apples on to match the book.    Work on early math concepts along with literacy!  Take it into a classroom and lead a math center.  Possibilities abound!

Click here to get the characters in Boardmaker
Click here to get the apples in Boardmaker

Click here to get the characters in pdf
Click here to get the apples in pdf

Give them a nutritious apple snack at the end.
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Back to School--Printable Book with icons

This is my last weekend of relative freedom----I'm watching our hometown boy, Nick McCrory, doing the Olympics 10 meter platform dive (so far he's advanced to the semi-finals).  All I can say is "Wow!"  He actually went to the school where I work; his mom and I hung out at the local pool where our kids had fun (mine, however, did not evolve into Olympic stars).  I guess that's my claim to fame for today.  Good luck to him!   He has worked incredibly hard for this!

So, on to speech blogging: I've created a very simple back-to-school book on Tarheel Reader.  For those of you who want to know, Tarheel Reader is a wonderful resource.  You can search the numerous books by keyword and download them, then edit as you wish. The pictures are real, and the language level is often appropriate for the kids I work with.  My book, "Things we do at School", is here.  I've also uploaded it to Google docs for you to download, and uploaded some icons to go with it.  Download, print, laminate, and velcro, and then have the kids match or request the icons during your sessions.  As an extension activity, let them think of other things they do at school, take pictures, and add to the book! 

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icons to go with the pages---cut out, laminate, velcro

Click here to download the book "Things we do at School"

Click here to download the icons in pdf.

Click here to download the icons in Boardmaker






Have fun with this.  I haven't actually read this book with children yet.  It's hard to do speech therapy activities when the kids are still on vacation!    My joy starts in two weeks.



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