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Spring Cut and Paste Practice Scissor Skills
Need some Spring cut and paste practice for your students? This scissor cutting practice freebie is ready to go! You can download it for free at the bottom of the post. This freebie is from the complete Color, Cut, and Glue Packet. It includes 55 black and white printable activity pages encourage children to practice […]
10 Reasons Why Children Should Exercise
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, kids ages 8-18 now spend, on average, 7.5 hours in front of a screen for entertainment each day, 4.5 of which are spent watching TV. That figure doesn’t even include the time they spend on the computer at school for educational purposes or at home for homework. With the […]
5 FREE Positioning Handouts
As pediatric therapists, we are well aware that children need to have stable and strong proximal muscles of the trunk and shoulder girdle in order to use the distal muscles in the fingers and hands. When we observe in classrooms, we frequently see positioning of children that could use modification. Perhaps you modify the […]
Wishing You a Happy Mother’s Day Fingerprint Craft
As a mother of 6 children, I happen to LOVE homemade Mother’s Day crafts. I also love anything that has a child’s fingerprints, hand prints or a drawing on it. I created the Wishing You a Happy Mother’s Day Fingerprint Craft template so the children can simply press their finger prints on to the paper […]
What is a Growth Mindset?
What is a growth mindset? It was developed by psychologist Carol Dweck who explains mindset as a self-perception or “self-theory” that people hold about themselves. For example, it is believing that you are smart or not smart, good athlete or bad athlete, good at knitting or stink at knitting. This type of mindset can have a […]
7 Features of Effective Classroom Rules
The Teacher Education and Special Education journal published a review of the literature on creating and managing effective classroom rules and behavior. Teachers report that verbal disruptions, noncompliance, and being off-task are the most frequently observed challenging behaviors. Ineffective classroom management changes the overall classroom environment, affecting students’ social and academic outcomes and teachers’ self-efficacy, attrition, and burnout. Teachers […]
Mother’s Day Movement Activities
Mother’s Day is just around the corner. Children will enjoy these Mother’s Day movement activities as they move like the baby and mama animals. Below are some ideas from the Mother’s Day Movement Cards and Games complete packet. You can download three sample pages for the full color posters. Encourage the children to make small […]
Are You The Best Therapist for the Job?
Do you ever ask yourself if you are the best therapist for the job? For any children who receive related services, hopefully this question is asked frequently. When teachers create class lists for the following school year, they usually make a recommendation based on the student and the teacher’s style. The students move from grade […]
10 Games to Play with Plastic Easter Eggs
Do you have loads of plastic Easter eggs from the holiday? Here are 10 games to play with plastic Easter eggs: 1. Sensory Table Accessories: Separate the plastic eggs. Children can use them to dig in sand, beans or other tactile items. Put them in the water table. Some of the eggs have holes in […]
Find and Count the Bees from Brain Workouts
Can you find and count the correct number of bees? This is a perfect puzzles to get in a brain workout. Challenge visual discrimination skills, visual motor skills and counting skills with this freebie. DOWNLOAD THE FIND AND COUNT THE BEES ACTIVITY Brain Workouts Volume 1: This digital document encourages children to have fun, be […]