Looking for an easy toddler activity? Try making a matching pairs sensory bin! This fun learning activity is perfect for toddlers on a rainy day!
FREE printable activity for toddlers and preschoolers to identify body parts and place pieces where they go. Great anatomy activity that also helps to build vocabulary.
Is your toddler making homeschool all but impossible? These easy toddler activities will set your homeschool back on track in no time at all!
Use these 3 simple language games to improve your toddler's speech and help develop their articulation, language, and pre-reading skills. The following post 'Improve Your Toddler's Speech' was written in collaboration with my own mom, Jamie Bott, M.A., C.C.C. Licensed & Certified Speech & Language Pathologist / Reading Endorsed by the State of Florida. Every parent wants their child to grow up to become a
Free Printable preposition game for toddlers and preschoolers to help develop gross motor skills, fine motor skills, vocabulary and visual discrimination.
In this lecture to the first Waldorf teachers, Steiner focuses on the twelve senses, grouped into Thinking, Feeling, and Willing.
I love using body percussion in my music classroom. It's an effective way to TEACH Beat too. So, here are my easy body percussion activities.
Make a giant word search personalized for your child! A great way to practice sight words, spelling words, and reading list for big kids.
The Montessori method of education teaches reading and writing by isolating each sound/symbol and allowing the child to manipulate them herself through the movable alphabet. So why would we teach …
Montessori family house cleaning plus a roundup of Montessori-inspired sweeping activities for preschoolers.
If you want to teach your little ones about the concept of opposites you will want to check out these fun opposites worksheets and activities.
Which hour of being a coach would you be most curious about? If I had to guess it would be the hour I spend working on my Christmas 2018 jigsaw puzzle while watching The Bachelor. Just kidding! I bet it’s going to be the hour, and some, it takes to actually coach. Let’s dive in […]
Characteristics of kinesthetic learners, tools, & educational activities to support hands-on learners. Activities for math, literacy, and social-emotional learning.
Should you introduce letters to your preschooler in their order in the alphabet? Surprisingly, no. There are actually better ways to introduce letters.
Have a child learning to read? Try this missing sounds reading activity to work on decoding skills. A hands-on, phonics based reading game.
This blindfolded maze game teaches obedience to children. My kids loved playing this game, wanting to try completing the maze over and over again. Teaching through games speaks volumes to kids. The concepts resonate with them because kids learn through play. Some people are questioning whether obedience is outdated. They don’t want their children being...Read More
What a year it's been! I published 77 deceptively educational activities, games, and ideas in 2015. Here are the 15 most popular. No. 1 Equivalent Fractions Missing Numerator Game No. 2 Roll and Make Whole - Adding Fractions Board Game No. 3 Color Theory for Kids (free printable color book) No. 4 Button it Up - Beginning Addition Practice No. 5 Climbing Mountain Climbers (Learning about Everest) No. 6 Mean-Median Match-Up (free printable game) No. 7 Simple Machines: DIY Pulley No. 8 DIY Parachutes (and the Science Behind How they Work) No. 9 DIY "Cave Paintings" (a Lesson on Lascaux) No. 10 Why You Need to Use Soap (a Germs Simulation Experiment) No. 11 Complete-a-Caterpillar (Phonics Game) No. 12 Butterfly Garden (a Comparing Fractions Game) No. 13 Egg Drop Experiment (Newton's First Law of Motion) No. 14 Magic Linking Chain (the Science of Force) No. 15 Beginning and Ending Sounds Word Elimination I can't wait to see what deceptively educational ideas and activities await us in 2016! Thanks to all who continue to follow our journey!
ABA therapy is Applied Behavioral Analysis.It is a type of therapy that helps Autistic children and adults in some cases learn appropriate behaviors and life skills.
Science Experiment: Sink or Float with Oranges - My kids are always up for an experiment, and this one gifted us with great conversation!
Teach your kids to focus with these 10 simple activities to increase attention span. Learn what the attention span of a preschooler is.
Learn how to incorporate awesome and easy creative movement activities into your music class. Read this post for tips and ideas!
These smell bottles are great for Montessori or sensory play. Provides great olfactory sensory input. Help your child play Sensory Detective.
Lots of books, songs, and activities to build literacy-rich circle times with toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners.
32 Sensory Play Activities For Kids With Autism. Sensory Play helps all children learn, but for kids on the autism spectrum, it can
Children's Play SchemasIn case you need a recap on Play Schemas then I highly suggest you head to our blog 'What are Play Schemas?' before reading ahead.
Are you looking for fun hands-on kindergarten activities? This list has 25+ play-filled activities for kindergarteners to do at home (from Busy Toddler)
First published July 2011. Updated 2018. I’m going to sound a bit like a textbook right now. I’m sorry. Bear with me. You’ll be glad you did…I hope. :) I was taught in my early childhood courses that there are 6 domains of early childhood development. I say there are 7, but we’ll get...
Cooking, card games, coloring, and chores!
Maria Montessori was an Italian physician who is known for her passionate and pioneering work in early childhood development. She believed in sense learning and creative exploration letting childre…
This post will include several activities and ideas including free printables you might wish to try for teaching prefixes.
Teach your children what sound waves are and how they work using items you have at home. 4 simple sound science activities for kids.
Autism activities to help increase communication, fine motor skills, sensory play skills, interaction & more in your home or autism classroom!
We have upcycled and used from our home everything needed to DIY tactile cards for touch and match game to explore textures.
This template can be used to show how a child benefits from playing with blocks. Blocks are open-ended play materials; there is no right or wrong way...
Try this oil spill clean up experiment with your students or kids! This is agreat one for Earth Day or anytime you want to teach about the environment!
These ABA therapy activities for kids with autism spectrum disorder will give you heaps of ideas you can use at school, in therapy, and at home!
“The prime value of the arts in education lies, from my point of view, in the unique contributions it makes to the individual’s experience with and understanding of the world. The visual arts deal with an aspect of human consciousness that no other field touches on: the aesthetic contemplation of visual form.” – Elliot Eisner, […]
Children's Play SchemasIn case you need a recap on Play Schemas then I highly suggest you head to our blog 'What are Play Schemas?' before reading ahead.
Try these preschool physics experiments and activities with your kids!
Kids will have fun looking for nouns all around them in this Grammar Activity for Kids. Simply print the Noun Hunt printable and head out for fun learning.
Hello Friends, I am sure that the after school meeting that I participated in on Thursday was very similar to yours.... Our principal telling us that our spring break was being extended and that we would be working together to create home learning activities for our students - with no definite ending. It was such a surreal experience... My students and I had just been discussing all the fun things that they were going to do when we returned - finish our pinball machine, wear shorts for the first time since the fall, plant something in our school garden.... now, everything is so uncertain. And for the first time, we might be creating lessons on line for our students - which is new territory for so many of us. I am blessed to have some really amazing contacts in the teaching world. I have been perusing some of my favorite bloggers who have gathered together resources that can be used while we struggle to create plans for our little ones. I thought that I would share the links that I found to be useful. Hopefully having all these links in one place will save you a little time as you plan. There are several lists circulating right now. I tried to list (mostly) ones that give kids a bit more hands-on experiences. Of course, parents need a printer for many of these hands-on activities, so if you need more internet based experiences for your students, scroll to the bottom of my post for an internet based link. This looks so interesting and the service is free (at least for now). It looks to be a good site to do video conferencing with your students. I have only glanced at the possibilities, but being able to speak to my students in some way sounds amazing. Shelley has provided links to a few math games, a free camping unit, and other age appropriate links and ideas. There is a wonderful list of on-line games listed on this blog. The Blue Brain Teacher has created (and continues to create) google slide lessons for kindergarten teachers to send to their students that will last up to 14 days. I love The Science Penguin and she has uploaded some fun science activities that simply need to be downloaded. I love Differentiated Kindergarten. Marsha has listed some wonderful links and resources on her blog. A free resource from Differentiated Kindergarten that is worksheet free.... Mary, from Sharing Kindergarten created a wonderful list of activities to do that are easy for teachers to share and parents to implement. Here are free Print and Play resources from The Measured Mom. Scholastic has posted some amazing activities with more to come. Phonics Hero has created a 30 day free trial for parents. This is free from Katie Mense for a limited time. Home lesson plans for 4 weeks! Deedee Wills created this packet filled with ten math and literacy games and it's free right now! Tons of fun activities for kids to do at home are listed on this website. This resource has two amazing editable templates - a schedule and "lesson plan" template - all to be shared with parents. This is an "At Home Calendar" with a choice board. Sesame Street continues to strive to create videos and activities to teach kids to care and get along. Mo Willems is hosting lunch time doodles videos - perfect for Elephant and Piggie lovers! If you are looking for Catholic resources, Tiny Saints are uploading materials for our littlest learners. Presently there is only one, but their website says that they will be uploading more. For a limited time, Catholic Kids is making their library of Mass videos available for children. These items are not free, but are reasonably priced for stressed out teachers. My sweet friend, Deedee Wills, has created a home learning pack for both kindergarten and first grade and she has reduced the price greatly. She is presently working on two more to add. Kreative in Kinder has created a packet for kindergarten learning that can be found in her store. If you need activities that are simply internet based, Cara Carroll has a wonderful blog article with tons of links listing internet based resources by companies that have lifted their subscription fees for a few weeks and/or months. I will be updating this list as I find more resources. To find free resources in my store, click the image below. I am in the same situation as you, so I have not made anything specific to home learning, but I have quite a few free items in my store that might be helpful.... In closing, my favorite life quote (from Nelson Mandela) has always been "It always seems impossible until its done." Hang in there, sweet friends.... together we can do this... Blessings,
Interoception may be a new term to you. Find out how you can support sensory processing with these 10 interoception activities for kids.
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Free onset and rime phonics center for primary students. Students practice blending together real and nonsense words and record on the sheet available.
Proprioceptive input activities throughout the day improves sensory integration, self-regulation, and also prevents inappropriate sensory seeking behaviors.
Are you looking for some ideas that you can use to review important content with your class before a test? Check out these 5 engaging games for reviewing!
One sensory system, often under-recognized but important, is the vestibular system. Download a free poster with vestibular activities.
