Also known as Italian peaches! These adorable cookies are a must have for celebrations. Filled with ricotta and rolled in sugar.
Miss Carole of Macaroni Soup beating the bongo here! Let's talk about drumming with Pre-K and K children! You don't have to be a...
"Painting" like Michaelangelo…with markers. Such a simple, beautiful kids’ art project! Get more kid art inspo on our Easy Kid Art Project round-up on Pinterest.
Free Printable preposition game for toddlers and preschoolers to help develop gross motor skills, fine motor skills, vocabulary and visual discrimination.
A coven of old and new photographers peers into the aesthetic realms of the supernatural
Sometimes when working with young children on the production of speech sounds, it is helpful to provide the little one’s with a fun label, or name, for the sound(s) you are teaching. Providing a visual cue to go along with the label is also very helpful, to provide multisensory instruction. Several years ago I asked […]
Online reading comprehension software programs that builds essential cognitive and reading skills at your child's own pace. Results in 4 months.
You’d think that it’s the 21st century and that humanity has progressed enough for social and cultural issues in terms of gender, race, age and the like to not be a thing anymore. Alas, we can only dream.
Childhood Fears by Age As children grow they have different worries and fears. There are common childhood fears that tend to coincide with different stages of development. Below are the most common childhood fears by age. As with most things – this list isn’t exhaustive and some children will have different fears – or will have a
Here are my tips and tricks for moving from making sounds in isolation to working on the VC and CV syllables during articulation therapy.
Talk about feelings and emotions with this fun guess the emotion game for children of all ages!
Page 1 Motivation What is Narcissism? Definition of Narcissistic Personality Disorder Deriving Characteristics from the Tale Fatal and delusional self-absorption Unresponsive to love Sees people as…
Critical thinking questions include, 'Why is this important? What are the causes and effects of this? How do we know if this is true?"
May is here! What do you have planned for Better Speech & Hearing Month? I have been so overwhelmed I haven't had too much time to plan anything! I'm sticking with little smarty
Nature crafts and activities are a great way to enjoy the outdoors with kids, promote sustainability, and encourage little ones to conserve. Added bonus — many times nature provides us with free art materials! Here are some of our favorite simple, beautiful projects from FFFB and around the web that will make you want to […]
This character questionnaire helps you think differently and create memorable characters for your stories with 150+ character questions.
A blog about autism resources and support from a special ed teacher with first-hand experience.
Things to Do With a Switch and a Battery Interrupter (Just insert the metal disc of the interrupter between the battery head and the receiver and plug in a switch, does not generally work with anything that recharges. Also, when using a battery adapted it will just turn the item on an off making things like a stapler or pencil sharpener "partner" activities. You may need to tape, glue or velcro down the devices built in power switch if you want it to be an independent activity. Many of these items are available at dollar, discount and salvage stores as well as flea markets. It generally costs less to adapt them yourself. Save your school budget for things you can't pick up for cheap.) 1. cut with battery operated scissors (pre-adapted) 2. have a race with toys that walk accessed through the switch (pre-adapted) 3. use walking switch toys to knock down block tower 4. use an adapted remote control car to knock down towers 5. put paint on the wheels of the adapted remote control car and drive over paper to make a painting 6. use a battery run electric razor and remove the pills from sweaters 7. turn on and off a hand held massager to give massages or to shake a box filled with paint covered marbles 8. turn on and off a flashlight (point it under your face and tell ghost stories, hit another switch to play ghost stories) 9. turn on and off battery operated holiday lights decorating your wheelchair 10. blow bubbles on your adapted battery run bubble blower 11. staple things 12. turn on and off a mini-tv 13. stir a drink 14. sift flour 15. be in charge of the pencil sharpener 16. dry your nails 17. open mail 18. sharpen the crayons 19. vacuum up bugs or dust bunnies 20. scare the pants off someone 21. make something spin in circles 22. cool off 23. spray a mix of water and food coloring over a stencil to paint 24. take a bubble bath 25. make spin art Using a Switch and an Electric Power Adapter (The Powerlink from Ablenet and the Electra from Tash with both interrupt the power to electric {plug in} devices and can be set to direct, timed or latch {first hit turns on, second turns off}. Oh, don't use it with high power items like microwaves!) 26. cool off with a plug in fan, attach streamers and watch them blow 27. make sailboats, place in a long underbed storage box of water, set up fans with switches, use fans to make wind, race the boats 28. turn on and off the lights in a haunted house 29. be the D.J. 30. use hair dryers to dry paintings 31. go apple picking then use a juicer with a switch to make juice 32. make ice cream shakes, use food coloring to make a color to go with your holiday theme, sell them for two dollars 33. use a food processor to mix up the ingredients to make recycled paper, use your fans to dry it 34. grind up oreos in a grinder or food processor to make "dirt" 35. turn on holiday lights or a holiday fiber optic tree 36. run a foot massager 37. use the switch and the overhead projector to shine a light onto a friend and trace silhouettes 38. make a funky sixties or seventies space by running lava lamps, a liquid projector, and groovy music all by switches 39. run a fog lamp to make the room spooky or mist-i-cal 40. turn on the black lights with all of your glow in the dark stuff around, make your own planetarium 41. use that sewing machine and make some curtains (or aprons...) 42. plug in one red light and one green light - now the switch user runs gym class 43. shave people's heads for a dollar during spirit week Things to do with specially adapted devices and a switch: 44-48. use a pouring cup to pour cooking ingredients, art supplies like glitter, to pour sand in the sand box, to measure for science experiments to to dump water over your friends head 49. Use and iScan to run your iPod 50. change the tv channels 51. listen to CDs 52. be a bookworm 55. spin 56. be a high roller 57. ring my bell or bells 58. bowl 59. scoot 60. joke
While Dutch artist Joris Kuipers spent years studying traditional painting and fine art techniques at both the Arnhem Academy and the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen, his installations fly in the face of anything traditional. While borrowing from ideas rooted in expressionism as far as the application of paint and use of color, the artist constructs large-scale installations that spiral and twist off the walls, blurring the lines between painting and sculpture. Two of his most recent works shown here were installed at More
January is here! A NEW YEAR and so much to learn! I am super excited to continue our learning for this school year and start the calendar year off strong!
A collection of our favourite inspirational quotes from Pinterest. Including some we've turned into typographic prints. Available on paper, canvas or ready to hang wood stretcher framed. You can view our typography print collection here. Or visit our main site for more inspirational typographic art here. Image:
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The blog adventures of homeschooling active boys, preschool at home, and other educational activities.
Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend! I just posted about the word play fun I’ve been having with my students! They would also be fun to share with your students for April Fool’s Day! Please read my latest blogpost to find out more and pick up this Idiom freebie: I would love to hear how ... Read More about Idioms for April Fool’s!
This is part two of an activity I posted last week. My sweet client was able to identify which item from a choice of two was NOT in a category, but this takes it to the next level. Now, he will have to identify which item IS and which item IS NOT in that category. Cognitively, he understands what belongs in a category, but has trouble understanding and expressing the language concept of "not." Click here to download!
I've tried therapy, drugs, and booze. Here’s how I came to terms with the nation's most common mental illness.
Perception is reality until proven otherwise. But our perception may change in an instant depending on exactly how much we know.
I made this worksheet to work on formulating questions with two given words (a question word and a noun). I made a similar worksheet a few months ago, but I have kids who are still working on this goal! Click here to download!
It’s been a crazy week! My caseload seems to be at an all-time high, with some complicated and somewhat high-profile cases that keep my days (and nights) challenging. Paperwork, schedule chan…
This is a great first week of school sheet to let students fill out. They can color the pictures and decorate. Another use is feature five students a day to share, or save them in a file and have the students share them on their birthday with the class. Getting so excited for the school year!! Science Doodles Interactive Notebook BUNDLES I offer you might like: (click on links below) Safety, Tools and Scientific Method Bundle Classifying Matter Bundle Changes in Water Bundle Mixtures and Solutions Bundle Circuits Bundle Light Bundle Energy Bundle Sun, Earth, and Moon Bundle Food Chains and Food Webs Bundle Inherited Traits and Learned Behaviors Bundle Adaptations Bundle Interdependency Bundle Environmental Changes Bundle Fossils and Sedimentary Rocks Bundle Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition Bundle Science Concepts Bundle Year of Vocabulary Words Bundle Social Studies Interactive Notebook Doodles I also offer: Social Studies YEAR BUNDLE of Vocabulary Words, History Alive Social Studies YEAR BUNDLE of Chapter Tests, History Alive Social Studies YEAR BUNDLE of 21 Foldables, History Alive Best wishes! Melanie
We've come a long way from where we were 100 years ago in regards to respecting each other, but with this progress comes crazy double standards that we still see daily.
