Sunday 11 February 2024
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
Friday 9 February 2024
Visuals
A quick reminder about using viusals and how impoartnat they are!
Wednesday 7 February 2024
Foundational Skills before Talking
There are many skills that children have to acquire before they speak!
Watch this video WALKIE TALKIE to help you!
11 Skills that Toddlers MUST have before WORDS emerge 1. Responds to events in the environment 2. Responds to people 3. Develops an attention span 4. Exhibits joint attention 5. Plays with toys 6. Understands and uses early gestures 7. Understands early words and follows simple directions 8. Vocalizes 9. Imitates actions, gestures, and words 10. Initiates interaction with you 11. Begins turn taking
Saturday 9 December 2023
Holiday Ideas
Monday 27 November 2023
Tuesday 31 October 2023
MAT MAN
I love using Mat Man in my pre-k classrooms.
Mat Man, by Learning Without Tears, is such a quick and fun activity that you can use with the kids to help teach important readiness skills such as drawing, pre-writing, counting, building, socializing, sharing, and body awareness.
I love to use it and incorporate language concepts like body parts, and concepts.
You can download it here for free!
Here is a video for information on Mat Man.
This is the video I use in classrooms when I do Mat Man.
When I do Mat Man with kids preschoolers I pair it with the Opposites book. It is a nice language addition to the activity.
Sunday 15 October 2023
Monster Theme
I love using the Monster theme in the preschool and kinder classrooms. I incorporate Speech and OT.
You can pair with the OT centers to make your centers a language rich experience.
We did Wet, Dry, Try with the letter M- for Monster, then we made monsters with play dough and made fun monsters using add-ons like buttons, straws and other $ store items.
M- make the m sound with the kids, talk about words that start with the m sound and explicitly describe how to make the m sound (putting your lips together, etc.).
Play Dough- make the monster and describe what they are doing- you put the eyes in the middle, you made a mouth at the bottom, just explain what they are doing using concepts. Remember- don't ask questions, model what they are saying.
Take a look:
We did Wet, Dry, Try with the letter M- for Monster, then we made monsters with play dough and made fun monsters using add-ons like buttons, straws and other $ store items.
M- make the m sound with the kids, talk about words that start with the m sound and explicitly describe how to make the m sound (putting your lips together, etc.).
Play Dough- make the monster and describe what they are doing- you put the eyes in the middle, you made a mouth at the bottom, just explain what they are doing using concepts. Remember- don't ask questions, model what they are saying.
Take a look:
Here is a fun song to pair with your Monster Theme.