Theme Based Activities: Family &
Community History
and Valentines!
**directions for downloading
 Unique
Learning History: On the Road Again WH-Sort (BM+ 6): An
interactive vocabulary sorting activity for people, places, actions and times
associated with the Unique Learning Book, "On the Road Again." Students
are asked to put people in the "who?" bubble, places in the "where?" bubble etc.
Correct items stay in their bubble, errors snap back to their original position.
by Vicki Clarke (symbols copyright from Symbolstix)
 Unique
Learning History: My Family Can (CS3): An errorless writing activity
that allows students to explore the fun activities their family members can do!
Repeated line is "I can too!" A nice add-on activity to the storybook
reading for "My Family Can" from this month's Unique Learning Elementary
curriculum. We're using this activity to promote word pairing in
sentences, exploring verbs and family member names. by Adina Bradshaw,
Vicki Clarke & Jessica Johnson (symbols copyright from Symbolstix)
 Unique
Learning History: Long Ago in the USA (BM6): An printable or
interactive Venn Diagram for students to sort activities from Long Ago and those
of Today. Activities include gardening, going to school, using a
microwave, playing video games and hopscotch. By Jill McCain & Vicki
Clarke
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Valentine for You (CS3): A 13-page Valentine Storybook based on a poem
from Alphabet-Soup.net. IPS3 single switch, touch screen or mouse use with a
toolbar for specific page selection. Cute customized overlay has switches
programmed for a single click.
Valentine Venn (CS3): A Venn Diagram comparing Valentines and
Christmas. Students pick an item then pick the Venn hoop it goes in. Accessible
by switch, auditory scanning, intellikeys and mouse.
 Valentine
Stink Word-By-Word Writing (Overlay Maker): This Overlay Maker 3 file
is designed to allow beginning writers (at a word level) to recreate the story
"Valentine Stink" by Diane De Groat. I use this overlay with Intellikeys USB to
access Writing With Symbols 2000. This overlay uses original artwork. Use of
this overlay without ownership of the original storybook may constitute
copyright infringement.
 What's
Up, Val? (CS3): Val woke up with mixed emotions today! A silly storybook
with animations and real voice narration for exploration of emotion words and
their associated facial expressions. Accessible by switch and Intellikeys.
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