This Blog and Infographic will review tonic reflexes, their significance if the reflex persists beyond the typical age range, and the possible impact on a child’s functioning and role performance. Last but not least, this blog will suggest therapeutic interventions that are known to help inhibit the activation of tonic reflexes and advance postural control as a foundation for optimal functioning.

Centers or "Play centers" are centers that are intentionally planned; with a purpose in mind. A lot of my play based centers are planned aroun

Ever used handwriting without tears? This is a great product for more practice with writing your letters! Each page has the HWOT prompts using boardmaker pictures. I love using these sheets to help my students remember what comes first and it helps parents when I send these home to help teach lette...

Building Functional Pretend Play Centers in an Pre-K Classroom

4 Must Do's on the First Day of Pre-K. Worried you missed something while lesson planning for the first day of school?

Discover the perfect All About Me preschool activity designed for young kids! Get a free printable worksheet that's simple, engaging, and ideal for emergent readers. Download now!

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Establishing a goodbye ritual in an early childhood special education classroom

Visual discrimination is an important skill for children to develop to assist with reading, writing and math skills.

Successful early experiences in math have a powerful effect in how your child develops their mathematical thinking, a important skill to master for use in their everyday lives. Our math printable worksheets will help your young child learn their numbers, shapes and other basic math skills.

I love self-portraits. It always amazes me how much each child's personality comes out in their drawings. I constantly have parents aski...

Infusing creativity with education. Spread awareness and download this artwork to colour-in for adults and kids and find out what Country you are on. Design only needs to be bought once and can be printed as many times as you need for personal and classroom use.

If you are familiar with the Walker Learning Approach, then you are no doubt also familiar with writing a Statement of Intent. This fortnightly planning document is vital to the success of your play-based learning program. Check out this blog post to see how we write ours.

Wondering how you can keep a calm classroom and create a soothing learning environment? Find out in today's episode.

Creative Curriculum Toddler Lesson Plan Template from early childhood lesson plan template, image source: pinterest.com

Ideas for setting up a Post Office dramatic play area at home or in your classroom. Printables for early childhood play-based learning.

Planting lifelong foundations in early childhood

Shapes worksheets help children in kindergarten develop a strong foundation in geometry. They will practice recognizing and drawing basic shapes such as circle, triangle, square, rectangle and oval with our printable worksheets.

Go on a trip across the country or across the world when you take off from this Airport Dramatic Play Center for the Early Childhood Classroom!

The green and red choice board is a universal support available for all students to support their social-emotional behavior.

KINDERGARTEN MATH - UNIT 3 I am so excited to have my new Measurement and Data kindergarten math unit posted and ready to share with you. So far this year, my sweet kinders have learned so much in math. We have mastered 1:1 correspondence, reading and writing numerals to 20, counting to 10

Creative Curriculum The First Six Weeks *Please note this is more of a focus on the GUIDED EDITION! Access everything you need for the Creative Curriculum: The First 6 Weeks unit! This resource includes monthly, weekly, and daily focus questions, unit vocabulary, unit visuals and language props, read aloud materials, data sheets and more! This was created to make your life a little bit easier - and more organized during this back to school unit! Teach your little ones all about classroom and school routines, people, rules, and more using the resources included in this printable! 170 pages dedicated to the CC First 6 Weeks! This resource is organized by focus question and includes: unit study focus questions questions of the day vocabulary daily read aloud visuals for books and focus questions

When trouble is abound in your Preschool or Kindergarten classroom, Sandi is here to save the day! Sandi is an incredible, seasoned, and passionate Kindergarten teacher here to solve your preschool classroom management woes once and for all! Here are Sandi's 7 tips for making sure your Preschool classroom is running smooth and peaceful. Preschool

Improving Communication Skills for Non-Verbal Children Through the Use of Aided Language Boards

Learn what a sensory diet is, how it can benefit your child's learning, focus, behavior, and emotional regulation, and discover which activities should be part of your child’s individual sensory diet.

I cannot believe a new school year is right around the corner! I love the excitement that I new school year brings. I also love the planning and preparation that I new school year brings. I have slowly been easing myself back into "work mode," analyzing my class schedule, staff assignments, and rotation activities. Today, I will be sharing some of my ideas for rotations in early childhood special education (ECSE). With that said, while I teach ECSE and focused on ECSE when creating these rotations, these ideas can work for other special education classrooms as well. How do you get the students to your table? If you are interested in learning about how I get my students to my rotation activities, check out my color coded classroom blog post here. It talks all about my schedule system. Today, we will be talking more about the WHAT we do at the rotation tables. How many rounds of rotations do you do each day? I recommend doing two rounds of rotations. I recommend the first round of rotations to be the more academic "goal" work and the second round of rotations to be the more social and "fun" work. I recommend doing this because students tend to be a bit more motivated and focused earlier in the day. Also, anything can happen towards the end of the day. Get the goal work done and the data collected at the beginning of the day so that you do not have to worry about it. How many rotation activities do you have during each round? I have three rotation tables during the first round of rotations and four rotation activities during the second round. This will vary depending on the number of students you have and the number of staff you have. What are your rotation activities? First round of rotations: 1) IEP Goals Math 2) IEP Goals Reading I set up my two IEP goal tables the same way. I use a 10 Drawer Seville Cart, add numbers to each drawer, and assign my students various activities based on their IEP goals. I use this assignment sheet to assign my students different activities based on their specific goals. If two students have similar IEP goals, I assign them both the same drawer number. In addition to the goal work, I place one thematic activity based on the unit that we are working on in one drawer of the cart. This is an activity the my students can work on once or twice during the week instead of working on their goal work. Both of these tables have a correlating binder which includes the assignment sheet, student IEP goals, and data collection pages. *sample activity sheet with fake student names and fake student goals. You can download this sheet for FREE here. 3) Art/Fine Motor This is probably my favorite rotation table! I love planning fun crafts and art projects. I use Pinterest to find many of my activities. I try to find activities that challenge my students to touch a variety of medias and practice a variety of fine motor skills (cutting, tracing, gluing, etc.) We only do ONE art project each week. I break the art project up into small steps for the students to accomplish each day. Once the students have completed their art project, I have cutting pages, tracing pages, and other fine motor pages in a binder that students can work on. These FREE brain boxes are also a perfect addition to your art/fine motor center. And lastly, don't forget the painting smocks to help keep your students clean! Second round of rotations: 1) Teacher Table (Learning without Tears) I LOVE Learning without Tears (formerly Handwriting without Tears). I have realized through the years, that it is best implemented in a small group setting. This year, I will be leading a Learning without Tears center each day. I simply follow the teachers guide as I lead this center. 2) Social Skills We use Second Step for our social skills curriculum, but this center is focused on peer interaction in our kitchen area. Students are prompted to share, take turns, and pretend play. All such skills can be very challenging. This center is simple and requires little to no prep. I simply switch out the toys and manipulatives depending on the theme of the month. For example, when we are studying healthy bodies, we have a doctors set out for the students to interact with. 3) Building Blocks This is another fine motor center; however, we use no pencils or papers in this center. Students are challenged to participate in hands-on activities that challenge students to use their fine motor skills. 4) Sensory Table This is another really fun center. We have a wonderful sensory table that I fill with various sensory materials each month. We use rice, beans, sand, magnetic letters, thematic materials, and all sorts of other things to make this center fun and interactive! My students LOVE this center. I hope that this blog post got you thinking about your small group rotation activities. Happy planning!

Providing meaningful documentation has many benefits in the early childhood classroom. Today I want to share some examples of meaningful documentation.

This Scope and Sequence is designed for Transitional Kindergarten and is full of easy-prep and engaging lesson plans!

Practice identifying the five senses of smell, see, listen, touch and taste with this printable color worksheet.

K-1 LABELING UNIT How do I teach my kindergarten and first grade students to write? I think every teacher has wondered this at some point. It can seem overwhelming... especially when getting started. I am so excited to share with you how I tackle writing and writer’s workshop! I will sh

In my play based classroom there are 10 essential learning areas. I cannot do without them. The provocations and resources offered in these areas change throughout the year dependent on children's interests and the curriculum intent. The placement of these 10 areas within the classroom is thoughtf

Learn to recognize and complete patterns in this Complete The Pattern printable worksheet.