“William, William, writing late by the chill and sooty grate, what immortal story can make your tiger roar again?”

China - Follow the Instructions: A printout about China and maps for young readers.

You wouldn’t have minded doing that book report on these stories.

“Most Beds are Beds for sleeping and resting, but the best Beds are much more interesting!”

Whether your child has sensory sensitivities, struggles with fine, gross, and/or visual motor skills, or needs help with handwriting, these occupational therapy activities will not disappoint!

Assertive communication can revolutionize your interactions with others, help you set boundaries, and lower your stress levels. Communicating assertively takes understanding and practice. Examples of assertiveness follow.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

As your toddler gets more interested in their surroundings, these activities for 18-month-olds will be perfect for keeping them learning!

These attention activities cover various types of attention: divided attention, sustained attention, selective attention and more.

Managerial grid model is defined as a model that elaborates leadership style in terms of people and business, developed by Robert R. Blake and Jane Mouton.

I've been a little MIA this week in the bloggy world. SCM is my excuse. SCM stands for Safe Crisis Management, so if you gotta problem wit...

daily blog, videos, e-newsletter & magazine on yoga + organics + green living + non-new agey spirituality + ecofashion + conscious consumerism=it's about the mindful life.

When one boy's bully wouldn't back down, he took matters into his own hands – and got him to apologize. Read more from Blake Taylor's book ADHD & Me.

My Classroom Feels Like This... WHHHHAAATT???? Week one has ended. My brain is tired and many weary hours have been spent at school this last week preparing, organizing, and thinking. I wanted things to run as smoothly as possible this week and I, along with the help of my wonderful colleague Jules, created lots of new management/procedural stuff to help the classroom flow and support learning. I'm instituting a LOT of new management and learning mojo into my classroom this year: We are following standards based grading this year in my classroom including pre, formative, and post assessments. All grading is based 4 point (Marzano style) rubrics directly taken from the standards. The goals is to have students focused on the skills and seeing how they can get better directly from the rubrics. Students worked so hard on their pre-assessment for plot elements and main idea/supporting details today! I'm excited to see how they do and how that can shape what I teach! Students will track their learning and goals set. We will keep all assessments/rubrics in a learning binder that stays in the classroom. Students will track their learning on a "track my learning" sheet that stays in the binder as well. Students will be officially introduced to this next week. Since the classroom is focused on what students learn, students have the option to retry when they don't do well. This year, I'm instituting a Request to Retry form. Taken from pintrest and adapted to fit my students needs...... I also have made a behavioral form to help students not only figure out how to resolve their behavior, but also to help me keep track of behavior and calls home. Side Note: I am reading Touching Spirit Bear to my 5th period class when they return from lunch (5th has an extra 15 minutes in it to accommodate all 3 lunches in our building). And this form reminds me of the "schoolified" version of the Circle Justice program Cole (the main character) is going through. It's a great book to show kids how to deal with anger and hurt. You should check it out! Missing work form - taken and adapted from E, Myself, and I to help keep track of those kiddos who don't turn in their work While You Were Out form - this form has been incredibly helpful! First, it helps me explain what the students missed and second, it allows me to just put it in the folder and teach the student to be responsible for their absent work. I've created a lovely little station of file folders for my students to find their absent work. Today, I gently reminded one of my freshman who was absent yesterday to check the absent folder for the work she missed (hopefully, but the end of 1st Q it will be come natural to them just to check there and I won't need to remind) and she had it all ready to go! I didn't have to remember where yesterday's handouts were or get all the directions together for her. At the end of 7th period today, my intervention specialist told me that the classroom "just feels peaceful." And she's right.... the room has an aura of peace. Whether that is a beginning of the year thing, a personality thing, a management thing, or just a room thing.... only time will tell, but I'm going to relish in it for now! Off to grade Freshman pre-tests... I'm actually kind of excited to see how they do.. I'm such a nerd. :)

A step-by-step plan for how to fix a frontal lisp in speech therapy: therapy activities, video demonstrations, & word lists for interdental /s/.

Four card games to play with your toddler. Using a deck of cards, toddlers can sort, match, and learn more about playing cards.

20 activities for the elderly with dementia. The following ideas may be used on a one-to-one basis and others may be suitable for small groups depending on their abilities. These dementia activities are designed to promote and maintain existing skills.

This post includes dozens of fun science light experiments for kids to keep you and your kids busy. These science lessons are so good that kids have fun, are engaged, and want to learn more!

This Blog and Infographic will review tonic reflexes, their significance if the reflex persists beyond the typical age range, and the possible impact on a child’s functioning and role performance. Last but not least, this blog will suggest therapeutic interventions that are known to help inhibit the activation of tonic reflexes and advance postural control as a foundation for optimal functioning.

How to help a speech delayed child | From speech therapy activities to PECS communication boards, we’ve rounded up 32 tips & activities to get you started!

Searching for tips and tricks to help older students fix letter formation? Here is a list of tried and true letter formation practice ideas to help your students get those letters fixed!

These activities to improve convergence skills are easy ways to support visual processing needs, especially convergence insufficiency.

My 18th logic game is about pets. You know the five children: Bobby, Danny, Jenny, Molly and Sally are friends. They live in the same street. From this game you can find out what kind of animals they have got, what their name is and their colour. Hope you and your ss will also enjoy it. The cliparts are from Philip Martin and there is one from Grace Lee. Have a great day. Hugs, ZsuzsapsziIf you don’t know how to solve this kind of game, you can look at the Einstein riddle on the net or have a look at my 33rd logic game, called Best friends where I wrote down the solution step by step. - ESL worksheets

This semester I’m trying to revamp how I take and keep data! To do this, I searched and searched through Teachers Pay Teachers for data sheets by other SLPs! Always great when you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. I found tons and tons of great, FREE data sheets and thought I’d share my collection […]

Discover William Blake's masterpiece paintings. William Blake is considered a notable figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

Help children understand that bacteria is ALL AROUND US by growing your own bacteria cultures in a petri dish with this fun #STEM activity for kids.

What is a retained spinal Galant reflex and why does it look like ADHD in my child?

I'm sure you've heard it said before, "When will I ever use this," about many math concepts. And it might be true that some higher level math skills won't be used if you aren't in a career with a math focus. But there are many math skills that we use in our daily lives and counting money is one of them. Teaching kids to count money is one of those skills that our students will use for the rest of their lives. So we owe it to them to guide them to mastery on this skill. Before You Teach Kids to Count Money Before jumping in to counting money, it is really important that kids know how to skip count by 5's, 10's and 25's. The more fluently they can skip count the more fluently they will be able to count money. Obviously, counting by 1's is also an important foundational skill that will help kids learn to count money. Your students don't need to have mastered skip counting, but having an understanding of the concept will be very important. If they cannot skip count by memory then it will also be important to have a skip counting tool in place that they can use as they count money. Step 1: The Value of Coins The first step in teaching kids to count money is to make sure that they can identify each of the coins and its value. Students should be able to identify a coin by both the front and back side, give its name and how much it is worth. Step 2: Sorting the Coins One of the easiest ways to teach kids to count money is to start by sorting the coins into groups. Once you have all of the same coin together, the next step will be much easier. Later, as students find counting coins easier, you can skip this step and keep the coins mixed up. But for starting out, this sorting step will make the rest of the process easier for the students. Step 3: Start with the Biggest Value and Count On Have students find the coins with the biggest value. Then show students that since all of the coins in that group have the same value they can use skip counting to count them. If you are using actual coins, have students count as they touch the coin and drag it into a new pile. If you are using pictures of coins on a worksheet or practice page, have students write in the value of each coin on the picture. Then have them skip count starting with the biggest value. Once they skip counted all the coins with the largest value, then move to the coins with the next largest value. Start counting where you left off and just adjust what you are skip counting by. Here's an example: In this picture you can see 3 quarters, 3 dimes and 5 pennies. This is what the counting process should sound like for this group of coins - quarter first, then dimes, pennies last. This is what it should sound like: 25 - 50 - 75 - 85 - 95 - 105 - 106 - 107 - 108 - 109- 110 This process is called Counting On and it is one of the easiest ways to teach kids how to count coins. In fact, although as an adult you probably don't think about each of these steps, it is very likely that this is how you count money without even realizing it. Teaching kids to count money doesn't have to be hard if you follow these steps. Start with one coin and work through the steps. When students can count multiples of each individual coin then move to two different coins in the group and work through the steps. Once students can count two different coins then add a third coin and work through the steps. Just slowly build upon the last lesson as students show that they are ready! When people tell me they are having problems with their class learning to count money I immediately wonder what step they are missing. After a few minutes of talking I can usually pin point the problem, and it always comes back to the steps. Sometimes they don't have a skip counting foundation and other times they jump from Step 1 to multiple coins Step 3 and just skip over the step by step approach. Practice, Practice, Practice Once students have learned the steps for counting coins, they need to practice, practice and practice so more! Hands-On Practice One of my favorite ways to practice counting coins is to play a game called Grab Bag! Here I take a small bag of coins and have each randomly grab a few from the bag. Then we practice going through the steps and counting the coins. The great thing about the Grab Bag is that you can fill the bag with the coins you are working on, or the coins your kids are struggling with. So, if you are working on counting by pennies and nickels, then you would only put pennies and nickels in the bag. This makes it really easy to differentiate for your students. This is a really fun game to play during small group instruction. Once students can count coins independently, you can use the Grab Bag game as a math center. Written Practice Money Counting Practice Pages are another great way to practice counting coins. My favorite counting coins practice pages are in this Time & Money set! What I love about this set is that it includes instructional posters and practice pages in an order that supports kids from the beginning to more advanced coin counting. The instructional posters can be used as you teach your lessons and then hung in the room to provide a learning tool that your students can refer back to. These posters will take you from Step 1 all the way through the coin counting process. You even get posters for the most advanced activities which requires students to apply what they know to a real world situation in the "Do I Have Enough" activities. Next comes the variety of practice pages that will give your students the repeated practice necessary to learn and master this skill. First, students work on counting money that is all one coin. Then they work on counting money that is displayed in a line, already in order by value. Next they will have to order the money on their own when the coins are left in a random group. Finally, they will apply what they have learned to decide if they have enough money to buy something. You can also find these activities in digital format too! Students can complete these activities using Google Slides which makes them perfect for classroom technology integration, distance learning, or a 1:1 classroom setting. Students will type into text boxes and move objects to provide their answers on the digital activities. Look at the digital activities in action. Get Counting! Grab these fun and interactive counting money activities (and get some fun activities for learning to tell time too)! If you aren't quite ready, then pin this to your favorite classroom Pinterest board so that you can come back quickly when you it's time to teach your students all about counting coins.

Theme parties are the best homemade fun there is! They serve to reinforce social bonds and provide a most welcome break from the routine. Theme parties are an opportunity to introduce residents to fun new activities, crafts, foods, and cultures.

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