11/21/2025
🍂 Thankful for Learning Through Play! 🦃
This week at Sound Start, our little learners had a blast building listening, language, and early literacy skills through festive Thanksgiving fun!
✨ Hands-on Learning Highlights:
🧮 Turkey Feather Counting – numbers + colors
🥕 Feast Sorting – categories + descriptive language
👩🍳 Cooking Pretend Play – sequencing + expressive language
🦃 Turkey Waddle Game – listening + following directions
🗣 Along the way, we practiced fall vocabulary like thankful, feast, pumpkin, apple, share, family, pie, leaves, cook, and more!
📚 Favorite storytime reads included Bear Says Thanks, I Am Thankful, The Very First Thanksgiving Day, and Thanks for Thanksgiving—plus lots of turkey songs and giggles.
💛 Try it at home:
Talk about fall items you see, encourage short phrases (“red leaf,” “I stir!”), play simple listening games, and celebrate every new word your child uses.
🧡 At Sound Start, every moment of play builds listening + spoken language growth for our deaf and hard of hearing kiddos.
