Help students learn 21st-century media literacy skills with these lesson ideas. Check out this blog post.
These free beginning sounds clip or cover cards are perfect for phonological and phonemic awareness. Download your free set today!
Moving from good to great Project Based Learning involves being aware of the specific, intentional “teacher moves” you make that drive student inquiry, engagement, and excitement for learning. One “move” I made that enhanced my PBL teaching was developing the classroom project wall into an active teaching tool, rather than a bulletin board. The project wall is the visual space in the classroom that helps manage information, project questions, calendars, standards, assessments, and resources that guide student learning during the project. Your project wall can support your use of each of the Gold Standard PBL Project Based Teaching Practices:
Abuse is not always straightforward and in-your-face, however, quiet verbal abuse can have the same impact on your psych nevertheless, maybe even more.
I was recently listening to David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement speech, This Is Water, and it got me thinking about moving through my days with more awareness. This is one thing I like about g…
Are you suffering from terrible sciatic pain? These simple sciatica exercises gently stretch your hips to relieve discomfort.
This free printable game is a great rhyming activity for kids in preschool and PreK. Just move around the board, say the picture, and name a rhyming word. It's a fun way to build phonological awareness!#phonologicalawareness #rhyming #preschool
When teaching social skills to kids, you typically start with teaching self-awareness skills before moving to social awareness skills, which is what is involved in perspective-taking or theory of mind. Perspective-taking is the ability to relate to other people and see things from their perspective. It is such an important social skill to teach children because perspective-taking skills are part of most communication and interactions between people.Perspective-taking is needed in order to have e
Learn about different bodybuilding workout techniques, like uni-set, multi-set, pyramid routines, and breathing sets. Choose an effective workout that suits your lifestyle.
June is scoliosis awareness month, so to help raise awareness, I thought I'd write a post with some interesting facts about scoliosis. Click to read more!
We had so much fun with this Rainbow Hop Letter Sounds Game! This life-size board game is a fantastic way to move and learn alphabet sounds and counting!
A collaborative blog by Pre K and Kindergarten specialists. Child growth and development, information, free printables.
I love games that incorporate developing literacy skills and hands-on activities. My boys spend a good part of their day playing with toy cars. So, we came up with a way to work on our letter and sound recognition skills while playing with cars. First, we took a large sheet of paper. Ours measured about […]
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These following direction activities are directionality activities that can help kids learn directions or spatial concepts such as left, right, up, down, and compass directions (north, south, east, and west) with a motor component. This hands-on learning activity really gets the kiddos moving and learning! We’ve shared directionality activities before that help kids navigate and ... Read more
Plank Pose is not easy, but with alignment and awareness, this strength-building pose can be your new best friend! Here’s how to practice Plank correctly.
These eight exercises are some of the best arm moves out there. You can add them to your regular routine to work on your shoulders, biceps, triceps, and upper back.
Because Handstand is made up of so many difficult and complex elements, it is not advisable to literally jump into it without properly prepping the body.
If you're looking for a good workout that will teach you how to lose arm fat FAST, this (free!) 12-minute shoulders, biceps, and triceps workout is for you!
Vocal warm-up exercises for showing students how to sing through the break. These FREE singing warm-ups may be primarily an exercise in awareness at first!
Over 80 amazing, simple proprioceptive activities for kids. Learn benefits of proprioceptive input to calm, focus, and alert.
Our Identifying Core Values Worksheets PDFs can be downloaded and used with all your clients, giving them the ability to fill it out on a digital device or print it out.
Cut two tone cheerleader bow for breast cancer awareness.
Young kids need to move a lot throughout the day. Here are some engaging ABC movement activities the kids will love to try at school or at home.
Proprioception exercises can help improve your body awareness, balance, and coordination, in turn helping reduce your risk of injury. Here are 10 exercises to get started.
Today, I’m joining the fun with What Do We Do All Day? as we do an indoor activity blog hop…perfect for those COLD winter days {or even HOT summer days} when you’re “stuck” inside. This is a super fun syllables game that will get kids moving, similar to our puzzle racing game, so get ready! ... Read More about Run and Find Syllables Game
Develop phonemic awareness by segmenting words into 2, 3, 4 and 5 French phonemes. Elkonin boxes build phonological awareness skills by segmenting words into individual phonemes or sounds. Point to a box, or move a token into a box for each phoneme or sound. These can be used to develop phonemic ...
See my favorite syllable activities for preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten students in this post. Learning to count syllables is a vital skill and will help students with phonological awareness skills. Phonological awareness is an umbrella term that includes the four skills: word awareness, syllable awareness, rhyming awareness, first sound awareness, and phonemic awareness (hearing and manipulating the individual sounds in words). Syllable games are a fun way for students to develop a strong phonological awareness by chunking syllables (parts in words). Students will practice syllable segmenting and counting syllables.
Here is a super easy set up but challenging activity to encourage motor planning skills, coordination and body awareness.
Here are my tips and tricks for moving from making sounds in isolation to working on the VC and CV syllables during articulation therapy.
A beautiful droplet style in gentle natural tones, carefully hand stitched onto white line. I individually sew each drop by hand and stuff with a safety standard synthetic filling. Each garland is crafted my myself, with love and care. It's a versatile garland that can easily be moved around the home and kids room, perfect under a shelf, or anywhere you fancy. Simply use a washi tape to stick each end to your wall or a drawing/wall pin through each end loop. This item is not a toy and should be kept out of reach of children. Presented in a lovely paper gift bag with ribbon and postcard. Please be aware that this is made to order so please do allow 3 weeks for it to be created for you beautifully by hand with care and a sprinkle of magic. If you live outside the UK then your order may be subject to Customs Import fees by your Country on arrival and your parcel may take longer to arrive. Please take this into account when ordering. x
In this powerful week before the Solstice, I am aware of the way in which the flow of time is moving.