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50+ easy activities for babies to do at home. From sensory bags to sticky walls, there are tons of ways for your baby to play and explore!
Homemade musical instruments are a way to get kids involved in the process of open-ended play. Whether they are involved in the steps it takes to make the musical instrument or not, the creativity in
Infants have a biological need to learn. Parents should assist them in their learning phase by providing the right environment and stimulation activities.
This is another 5-senses activity. We did 10 different materials, ranging from feathers to sandpaper and everything in between. We had the kids feel each piece of material and then had them glue them onto the hands. We asked the kids to describe the material and what if felt like to them. I LOVE the answers that we got from some of the kids. My own little girl, had some that made me crack up. The sandpaper felt like Poppa's face, the fake leather felt like a couch and one of them felt like her dog Brody. It was fun to hear their answers. Fabric stores are great to look for material for this project. A remnant can go a long way when your talking about 1 inch pieces. Also look at the craft supplies and hardware stores. We used sponges and Brillo pads, the possibilities are endless.
A great list of senosry activites for babies, 6 months to 12 months. Edible sensory activities included, such as our famous baby sand...
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Voici 5 idées d’activités créatives et ludiques autour de la nature, pour occuper les enfants pendant les vacances ! Je suis toujours en recherche de bonnes idées de chose à faire avec ma fille, je vous partage quelques idées que j’ai noté pour cet été. ∇ Organiser une chasse aux couleurs J’adore cette idée [...]
AMPLIFYING your ESL instruction is all about increasing comprehensible input for your students. In other words, ELLs learn best when you use instructional strategies that make your teaching (input) as easy to understand as possible (comprehensible). Makes sense, right? Amplification strategies are easy to adapt to whatever content you are teaching, and they are naturally differentiating (meaning students of all language abilities will benefit from their use). AMPLIFICATION STRATEGY: Use realia and hands-on activities Realia is a fancy word for everyday objects. You are using realia whenever you show your students actual objects (rather than an image or explanation of the object). Even something as simple as using real coins during math lessons counts as realia. Research shows us that the more ways we allow students to interact with the material we teach, the better they learn it. Realia and hands-on activities encourage students to participate and interact to the fullest. By handling, manipulating, and observing objects, ELLs are able to use more than just language to help them construct meaning. They are receiving information through interacting with the objects you present, which helps them understand your lesson in a deeper way. We've created a sample Five Senses unit to give you an idea of how easy it is to incorporate realia and hands-on activities into your teaching. Remember, amplification strategies can be added to any lesson to make it more comprehensible for ELLs! Below are a few ideas to get your wheels turning. 1.) Assemble a collection of objects. Have each student pick an object (secretly, if you want to add some drama) to describe using their five senses. They can write their description as a paragraph if they're more advanced students, or in list form if their English skills are intermediate. A true beginner may decide to create a drawing with labels or select from a collection of words you’ve supplied in a word bank. Pre-literate students may give an oral description of their objects. Allowing students to choose how to participate in this activity gives you the opportunity to assess their mastery of the content, regardless of their language abilities. 2.) Read “touch and feel” books. These relatively simple books are wonderful for helping students understand the more subtle variations in texture that we try to describe. They may seem inappropriate for older ELLs, but a more advanced activity could include asking the students to feel the texture and then come up with an appropriate word to describe its feel. Providing a word bank or the first letter of the target word makes this exercise slightly easier. Usborne has a series of books that are great for teaching vocabulary words about the sense of touch. In each of these books, a mouse is searching for something, but each time he thinks he’s found it, he realizes “it’s too (insert vocabulary word here).” The accompanying pictures allow students to feel the texture while hearing the word that describes the feeling. You can find many of the books in this series on amazon.com. 3.) Brainstorm a list of words that describe touch and texture with your students. Then ask them to go out and find objects that illustrate those words. Your class can create a poster of the different vocabulary words and objects they find. If you allow students access to this poster throughout the year, even beginner ELLs will be able to incorporate more advanced vocabulary into their writing. These sensory words are very useful when teaching students to "stretch their writing" in Small Moments units! For added cuteness, young students could trace their hands or even make a handprint using paint. The bottom line: Integrating hands-on experiences whenever possible is an important way to reinforce new concepts and vocabulary for ELLs. It encourages students of all language levels to participate to their abilities and is naturally differentiating. Not to mention, it motivates students, helps them stay focused (especially those kinesthetic learners), and encourages interaction with peers. Did you find this post helpful? Check out some of our other posts for more ideas about amplifying for ELLs. Here you'll find a printable list of questions for parents to ask their children to encourage deeper reading comprehension. For more tips on involving families in their children's schooling, visit our ELL Family Resources page and print out some of the forms on our post about parent communication. Want more suggestions foranchor charts and graphic organizers? Or take our quiz to find out how you're doing in terms of amplifying instruction for the ELLs in your classroom.
We love diving headfirst into movement activities for kids that use the whole body! Today, we're playing with our feet!
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!
Get your kids enjoying the sensory play of dirt, rocks, and sticks while making music with their DIY xylophone musical instrument activity.
Sensory Activities for Sensory Seekers that are extremely easy to do with zero prep and usually zero equipment!
3 fun light table projects to engage your child in fun and creative play. Perfectly adapted to special needs learners and all kids.
Making shadow puppets is a quick and easy boredom buster. Although, I have always found it a little tricky to use my hands to make shadow puppets, this is an easier way to make shadow puppets with …
Teach your children what sound waves are and how they work using items you have at home. 4 simple sound science activities for kids.
Teach your children what sound waves are and how they work using items you have at home. 4 simple sound science activities for kids.
This week's fine motor skill activity is SUPER frugal, and just uses an empty cardboard tube and elastic hair bands (hair ties). The following post contains affiliate links, which means that at no extra cost to you I can make a tiny bit of money to help support this blog. Thank you! This activity was based around No Time for Flashcard's Fine Motor Skills Challenge, which involved unwrapping elastic bands from corks. Instead of the cork I used a strong cardboard tube (from kitchen foil rather than kitchen paper) and some coloured elastic hair bands instead of regular elastic bands.
DIY Sensory board ideas to encourage your busy babies and toddlers to explore new textures, objects, and incorporate fine motor skills.
Proprioceptive input activities throughout the day improves sensory integration, self-regulation, and also prevents inappropriate sensory seeking behaviors.
Today's blog post will be a quickie. I was just so excited about my latest Target find, I had to share it with my teaching friends! So let's get started with our build a sight word fun! I knew it was going to be a good trip because this was the first thing I saw when...
Over 80 amazing, simple proprioceptive activities for kids. Learn benefits of proprioceptive input to calm, focus, and alert.
If you're looking for interoception activities for kids to improve internal body awareness and self-regulation, these ideas will inspire you!
Tons of tips and tricks for helping your teen understand and regulate their tactile system. What have you tried?
Proprioceptive input activities throughout the day improves sensory integration, self-regulation, and also prevents inappropriate sensory seeking behaviors.
Discover over 45 vestibular activities that can calm, regulate, and improve attention in your child. Plus, get vestibular exercises for...
40+ high energy toddler activities that are the perfect ways to burn off energy. Great indoor activities for your super active 2-5 year old.
The original magnetic blocks, Magna-Tiles® are open-ended toys that encourage STEM learning. For more, visit Magna-Tiles® online.
DIY Rainbow Butterfly Wing Costume - Shadow Play - Recycled Craft
Use these speech therapy activities with your infant to encourage early language development.
Waldorf dolls for infants are a favorite first toy that feel wonderful to make and give. Make a Waldorf doll with pure wool and cotton.
Teach your child to recognize and read consonant digraphs /th/, /sh/, and /ch/ with a digraph garden!
We are so excited to be making another guest appearance today over at Austin Lloyd to share some fun musical activities for toddlers and young kids!
Do you feel confident writing a solid SOAP note in your OT practice? Learn soap note examples and templates to level up your daily notes!
32 Fun seasonal Crossing Midline Activities that will get your Kiddo in the spirit of the season and extra practice in mastering this life skill
Simple, everyday activities that your baby can do to improve fine motor skills and learn through play. Use everyday objects or toys to practice these skills
Song Index
Montessori-inspired star and constellation unit with a roundup of resources and activities for multiple ages; perfect for classroom or homeschool!
Five Fun Activities for Teaching Prepositions. Teaching prepositions through playing games & enjoyable activities for children to learn while having fun.
As a primary teacher, it can be very difficult fitting in grammar instruction into your day. I also have a little secret you might not know about me. I used to loathe teaching grammar. Can any of you relate? It's so difficult to even WANT to teach grammar when we have so many other things we could be doing with our day. Plus, many of us are expected to "spiral" it in with the many other subjects we are expected to teach throughout the day. Although all school districts, programs, and teachers are different, I have found something that students love doing, and that is applying new information into something called an interactive notebook!! And so I created these for grammar...and the students loved them!
To learn why crossing the midline is key for everything from emotional regulation, fine and gross motor skills, reading and writing, and better behavior, click through to read this post now or pin for later! #brainintegration #crossingthemidline #braingym #emotionalregulation #childdevelopment#learntoread
Turn pretzels into a fun learning activity with this printable pretzel patterns book. It can be used as a quiet book or a hands-on math activity for kids.
