The most common mistake I see is #1 ... this is great advice for people teaching handwriting to kids in preschool and kindergarten. The tip about worksheets is so important. #handwriting #preschool #penmanship #kindergarten
Follow these five steps to teach a child to read. Helpful for parents, homeschoolers, and teachers that are teaching beginning readers.
How to teach phonological awareness skills in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Hands-on activities to make learning fun.
If you have learners who struggle to isolate beginning sounds, these free phonemic awareness games are the perfect fit! Use them in preschool or kindergarten. Use them in literacy centers or small groups. #phonemicawareness #preschool #kindergarten
Why we use the Montessori approach to the alphabet and language with our preschooler, plus three easy Montessori-inspired language activities.
10 ESOL Teacher Must Haves. Check out these items to make your teaching job easier.2
3rd grade teacher Deanna shares how she saves time and works more efficiently.
Are you looking for my original sight word books? I created those books beginning in 2013. Why not? My original sight word books required readers to use pictures to help them solve words. I created
Figuring out how to stop a toddler from hitting is no easy task! And if you are a first time mom, it's even more shocking. Right up there with with potty training kids who won't poop on the toilet and getting your toddler to stop whining. How you help your child stop hitting will look
Telling time past the hour can be challenging for primary kids but it doesn’t have to be a struggle for you or your students. Learn simple ways and effective strategies to make telling time easier for primary kids.
Let me start by saying that I have way more experience dealing with tantrums than I care to admit. My precious two-year-old has inherited some serious anger issues and occasionally (okay, often) will throw an all-out tantrum such as the world has never seen. I’m talking the writhing & scre
Want to take your kid's knowledge to the next level in your homeschool? 16 old-fashioned or vintage skills to boost your homeschool experience.
Want to teach your child the most important spelling rules? These are the basics and will help your child spell common words.
If you have been following me for a while, you will know that I LOVE teaching young ones how to read, and the alphabet is where it all starts! Truly one
Those days of forgetting their math facts? Staring blankly at a multiplication problem? Adding or subtracting when they should be multiplying? Done. Gone. Over. Those days are in the past! Today we’re going to learn how to teach multiplication facts to our students with disabilities so that they build conceptual knowledge and retention.
A Beginner's Guide to Montessori Theory
Teach your kids coping skills with these easy and brilliant anger management activities for kids - designed for positive parenting.
From developing fine motor skills, letter and number recognition, sight words, sorting, sequencing, reading, and math, these task boxes for autism tasks will help develop important life skills and beyond!
With one simple word, you'll boost your kid's confidence and inspire them to keep trying.
Check out this giant collection of dice games for preschoolers! You and your little one will have a lot of fun trying out these activities.
First piano lessons- easiest way to learn the notes is a fun animal memory game that teaches the names and positions of notes that Kids love!
Our world has gone digital, but there are so many analog life skills that our kids still NEED! It’s no secret that life has changed in the past 25 years. When I was in high school, we didn’t have internet either at home or at school. No one owned a cell phone, except for wealthy […]
Here are the BEST phonics youtube channels for learning, reinforcing and practing reading skills we're learning in the classroom!
14 Brilliant Ways to Quiet a Noisy Class! Check out these behavior management strategies for classroom management!
Wondering about the order for teaching letters to your little ones? I'm on it! I feel as though I am always writing about waiting to teach letter recognition. Wait and let little hands get strengthened by other activities. Wait until little minds have had ample time to hear different words and sounds. But a day
From developing fine motor skills, letter and number recognition, sight words, sorting, sequencing, reading, and math, these task boxes for autism tasks will help develop important life skills and beyond!
Learn how to play Help Your Neighbor! This is a fun family card game that works well for all ages. Perfect for game night!
If you have distractible kids you've wondered how to teach them and how to get them to concentrate. Here's several tips I've found working for helping distractible kids focus.
Put a bar of Ivory soap into the microwave and observe what happens with this quick and fun STEM/STEAM activity for kids. Fun for all ages!
The VCV tiger and camel syllable division can quickly move students past reading simple CVC words to reading multi-syllablic words.
A day in the life of an unschooler involves imagination, problem solving, storytelling, conflict, and play! Click here to see our day.
A master list of a wide variety of executive functioning activities to improve skills for your children or students. 50 fun activities!
Subitizing is the foundation for number sense and mental math. Learn about common mistakes teachers make when teaching subitizing.
Multiplication can be challenging for kids to learn and for teachers to teach! Here are a few tips to make teaching multiplication easier.
Perfect for kids with autism and sensory sensitivities, this is a great collection of tips and tools to teach you how to calm an autistic child quickly!
Here’s a fun science experiment that will definitely get a “wow” from the kids. Combine baking soda and vinegar to make sodium acetate, or hot ice! It crystalizes instantly when you pour it, allowing you to create a tower of crystals. Since the process of crystallization is exothermic, the “ice” that forms will be hot […]
Play the pig dice game! 6 different ways to enjoy this simple and fun game of jeopardy that teaches math, probability and rewards turn taking!
Here are the BEST phonics youtube channels for learning, reinforcing and practing reading skills we're learning in the classroom!
Do you teach an autism classroom? Here are my 5 must-haves to help develop your own successful autism classroom!
Welcome to one of my hundreds of character building posts. Today we focus on respect. These 20 ways to teach kids about respect include my previous lessons, crafts, activities, book collections and thoughts about teaching kids the importance of showing respect. I am also including other ideas I’ve found around the web so you are...Read More
Did you know you can use maps to teach many different subjects? Let's look at some of the ways you can use Free Giant Maps for Your Homeschool.
Every teacher needs a few fun, fast, easy, tricks up his/her sleeve. Here are a few easy classroom management tricks I've picked up over the years. Need a Second to Get Ready for the Next
How can sound be waves? It is a hard concept for kids. Try these 7 science experiments for kids to SEE sound. Learn the 5 senses with STEM activities.
A list of 20 fun and easy waiting games for kids that you can play anywhere without screens. Stretch your brains while in line, on trips or in restaurants.
These 10 online games to teach sight words are completely free! They are student tested and teacher approved for getting tons of practice and repetition.
Inside you’ll find: How to help a child with dyslexia at home with a simple sight word reading exercise. Many parents want to know how to teach a dyslexic child to read. This post will begin a new series by my friend Jennifer who is a sensory parent, an adoptive parent, a homeschool parent AND [...]
The ability to separate the sounds of a word is called “phoneme segmentation”. It’s a critical skill in both learning to read and write. By six and a half/seven years of age students should be able to tell you the sounds in a word. So, for example, if given the word “cat”, the student should […]
This post is full of my ideas for effective consequences that actually teach BETTER BEHAVIOR than simply punish a child for a discipline problem!
How can you support the development of self-regulation in kids? This huge resource is full of self-regulation games, information, books, and more!
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