As a kid, I was rough on my body. There's a scar on my foot from the time I attempted to slam the door in my sister's face...and forgot to move my foot out of
Yoga is a practice in self-discovery. Simple poses paired with intentional breathing will help your child develop physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Anger management strategies can be very useful to even young children as they learn to manage their own behaviour. These calming strategy cards can help!
This week we focused on farm animals for tot school. I made these Animal Command Cards to use with John. They were really fun to play with! Please feel free to save and use these cards! Most clip art was from THIS site or from microsoft publisher (which is what I used to make the cards!). Check back next week to see the other fun farm animal activities we did! I link up to these parties!
Yoga is a practice in self-discovery. Simple poses paired with intentional breathing will help your child develop physically, mentally, and emotionally.
These 28 printable breathing exercises for kids work well at school and home as calm down techniques, mindfulness exercises and brain breaks.
I’m really really excited about this new product! One of the things I love about TpT is having an excuse to pull out my lovely Scotch laminator and have an excuse to spend a few minutes laminating, cutting, and assembling the new things I just bought! That being said, there are many times when I’m ...
How do I explain to my kid what anger is and its function? What does anger look like? How angry am I? 30 Anger management activities for kids.
In late March, I had the great opportunity to attend the American Montessori Society’s annual conference in Dallas. It was wonderful, inspiring, overwhelming and so busy! It was hard to figure out where you wanted to be, because there was too much to see and to hear. One day my coworkers and I wandered intoContinue reading "fundamental needs of worms – a montessori science work"
This post was originally posted back in 2015 on my blog and has been a popular post since that time. I worked for a decade as a family counselor and elementary school counselor before staying
Making body shapes is a great movement game for preschoolers, kindergarteners and grade school kids, it's easy to play indoors and out and heaps of fun!
About the STOP mindfulness technique. An easy exercise for kids or adults to use to deal with anxiety.
4 Fine Motor Activites using LEGO Bricks
A listening activity was much needed... I hate to admit how bad my kids have been at listening lately. They totally either tune me out completely or just
Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.
Games to play at the art museum with your kids. Tips for making a trip to the art museum fun.
These Helping Hands Accordions were requested. I created these accordions for Dorcas using shirts. These have the same questions and graphics, but have the hands for the main shape.
Found a giant pair of red neoprene dice at the dollar store about a billion years ago and couldn't resist. I knew I would use them for something school related one day and that one day finally came. A little white gesso and black paint transformed them into "art dice". I won't lie. I shamelessly (stole) borrowed this idea from Tinkerlab. I like to start the year out with something simple and something "line" related. It was great. Little kids loved rolling the dice to create their designs and we reviewed line quality including direction words: horizontal, vertical, diagonal. We took a short break to review classroom rules and expectations while the paint dried and then I let them color with crayons. Third graders let their designs dry overnight. They will paint them with primary colors during our next class. Here are some shots of kids working and their results in progress. Thank you TinkerLab...fabulous idea! I found this project gave me a great opportunity to check out how kids are holding the crayon and give a little guidance on writing grip vs. drawing grip. Back up a little and straighten out the forefinger a bit. Use the arm to color, not just the fingers.
Free Anger and Feelings Worksheets for Kids
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Free Printable preposition game for toddlers and preschoolers to help develop gross motor skills, fine motor skills, vocabulary and visual discrimination.
This Sparkly Icicle Craft is a wonderful way to bring the beauty and magic of Winter right into the home or classroom!
Check this post out for some simple ideas to implement in therapy with young stuttering clients. Post includes The Speech Guy and Speech Roads Stuttering therapy with kids is so tricky! There is this balance between teaching awareness of the stutter and lowering emotional reactivity to the stutter that I am still working on mastering. It is different for each child and you really have to get a feel for how they will react. I only had 3 stuttering kids on my caseload this past year and they were as different as different can be. I tried doing the therapy in a group and it worked out okay but man it was tricky since they had such individual strengths and weaknesses, planning their sessions was a bear! Here are a few little lessons that really worked for all 3 of them (they were all 6-7 years old). The Speech Guy Two of my three stuttering kids had started to develop fairly severe secondary behaviors during stuttering moments. These are behaviors that happen as the child tries to get past the stuttering moment and can include funny facial and/or body movements to try to help them out of the stutter. Examples include eye twitches, loss of eye contact, slapping the leg, rocking the head forward, clicking the mouth, arrested breath, avoding words that are hard to say and a lot more. It honestly freaked me out when I evaluated them because I had no idea how to work with stuttering, especially stuttering that was severe enough to present with secondary behaviors. My supervisor at the district suggested I talk about the different parts that we use for speech and how they affect our talking. We found this Speech Guy on therapsimplicity.com. It was an awesome starting point for these kids and a fun activity to send home. We talked about each of the parts and how we use them for speech (mouth, nose, eyes, ears, voicebox, lungs) and the funny things that happen sometimes when we get "stuck" (raising eye brows, wiggling nose, tensing mouth, arrested breath, etc). The kids got to color their speech guy and the parts and take them home and tell their parents about them. Speech Roads My stuttering kids are fairly young and I was trying to come up with a good way for them to listen and evaluate stuttering behaviors. I drew these little "speech roads" during our lesson when I was trying to describe different types of "bumpy" speech to them. They really latched on to the road and we ended up using them a lot in our sessions. I cut them apart and had the kids hold up the speech road (smooth, bumpy or road block) that matched how the person was talking. Once they could identify what speech road I was using I had them listen to themselves and evaluate their own speech. I made copies that they could take home and practice evaluating theirs and other's speech.
Hi everyone, Lots of you, on Facebook and Instagram, have asked me about my centers. Today, I'm here to show you my daily center routine. I should tell you
This download contains two cootie catchers to help your students get to know each other when you return to school. Pair students off, give one a copy of cootie catcher A and one a copy of cootie catcher B, then let them get started! Also a great way for ESL students to practice asking and answering...
Chore Chart Tutorial and Printable for your kids. This will help them keep their tasks organized and help them feel accomplished.
Help children of all ages learn to recognise, manage and empathise with these printable emotions cards, with matching game plus 7 more game ideas.
The TapeTricity Card is a great first electronics project for kids. It's quick, cheap, easy, and fun to make. Not only does it teach how to make a simple circuit, but it engages the maker's creativity. You can make one for about 25 cents in materials.
This is a multiple choice activity for teaching or revising feelings and emotions related vocabulary. Students are asked to look at the picture and choose the correct option. The answer key
