Oral Motor Exercises for Children, skills refer to the appropriate functioning and use of the facial muscles lips, jaw, tongue, cheeks etc.
Visual discrimination is an important skill for children to develop to assist with reading, writing and math skills.
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This craft will help your child learn to tell time by converting analog to digital. It is fun and simple to make and takes just a few supplies from the bag.
Visual discrimination is an important skill for children to develop to assist with reading, writing and math skills.
Use play dough and play dough mats in speech therapy to work on a variety of language goals! Grab free play dough mats to use today!
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Oral Motor Exercises for Children, skills refer to the appropriate functioning and use of the facial muscles lips, jaw, tongue, cheeks etc.
Practice CVC words and short vowel sounds with this free printable read and cover CVC word game for kindergarten and first grade.
It's several weeks into the school year and I haven't posted anything about my new class yet, but it's all good- they're a great bunch! I have 11 kids and they are loads of fun and full of personality. I'm so lucky that their transition was easy, I didn't even have any criers on the first day! We've been hard at work on identifying their names, identifying the letters in their names, and getting the muscles in their hands strong enough to be ready to start writing their names. Here are some pictures of the name writing activities we've done so far this year. We started learning about names by focusing on the first letter. My students fancied up their first letter with paint and glitter. We made fancy names using some of the materials in the art center. On Deanna Jump's blog I found this cute Wheels on the Bus activity. My kids had a hard time getting through the song without giggling...it was a lot of fun! If you want the words I used for the poster here they are: Wheels on the bus poster words And here are the things that the students cut out: Wheels on the Bus student papers We worked a lot on name identification too. We used do-a-dot markers to decorate their names. We also put their handprints on the paper too and laminated it so that they can be placemats for playdough this year. Here are my students fishing for their names. I printed out clip art fish on cardstock and wrote the names of each of my students on the fish. Then I attached a paperclip mouth on each fish and gave students a magnet on a piece of yarn to go fishing with. They loved trying to catch their names! We worked on fine motor skills and letter recognition by making name mosaics. They came out really nicely! We also did the same thing but with pasta. We worked on learning the letters in their names, in order, by putting together name puzzles. I used a hot glue gun to go over their names so that they could be used to make crayon rubbings. We used alphabet stamps and glitter paint to stamp out their names with the letters in the right order. We did a similar thing using playdough to make the letters in their names. If you want my favorite play dough recipe go here: Playdough Recipe This is a sorting activity. Students were given foam letters and they had to sort them into two columns, letters in my name and letters not in my name. Once we finally started writing their names, we used this disappearing names worksheet where they slowly start writing more and more of their name and we went outside in the HOT, HOT sun and used sidewalk chalk to write the bricks surrounding our early childhood playground. Here's a poem we used throughout our time working on names. If you have any great name activities leave a comment!
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