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Play and Learn with Sticky Sticks
Affiliate links provided for your convenience When I’m in the shops, I always look for things we can use in teaching, and making the learning fun. So the other day I saw these craft foam sticks in a...
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Our Week: Sports Theme
This week we talked about Sports. Different types of sports, ball sports, winter and summer sports, the Olympics etc. The kids made an Olympic rings picture, identifying the 5 colours and tracing...
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Our Week: Dinosaur Theme
Our second last theme for the year was Dinosaurs this week! The kids loved it, and the teacher learned a thing or two about dinosaurs too! Crafts Handprint crafts are always cute, and a great keepsake...
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Fine Motor Activity with Pom Poms & Paper Plates
This week the preschool school class had some fine motor fun fun with pom poms and paper plates! This class’ students have different learning disabilities, some also has physical disabilities. Their...
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Teaching Punctuation Paper Plate Signs
Part of my job as a remedial therapist, is to present a weekly writing group to grade 3’s and 4’s. Together with a speech therapist and occupational therapist, we help these students in developing...
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Phoneme Manipulation with Sticky Notes
Some(most kids) learn better when there is a fun element added to the learning, like these sticky notes. Such a simple thing, but it adds a bit of fun, doesn’t it? I use it to practice phoneme...
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Silly Sentence Sticky Sticks
Part of my job is to teach grade 3’s and grade 4’s to write: sentences, paragraphs and stories. I made these Sticky Sticks awhile ago for preschoolers, but turned it into silly sentence sticky sticks...
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Low-prep Conjuctions Lesson
Some days you just need a low-prep activity. This low-prep conjunctions lesson was perfect for the grade 3’s I see as a class for creative writing group. Before the students can be expected to write a...
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Plant-a-Word Spelling Activity
Some(most)learners need more than just a paper and pencil to get them motivated for spelling. That is why I come up with all kinds of fun ways to practice spelling. Like this Plant-a-Word Spelling...
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Subject & Predicate Writing Game
I made this Subject & Predicate Writing Game from craft sticks as a fun way to show the students that every sentence need a subjects and a predicate. I made the sentence options very simple,...
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Easy Crafts for Preschoolers
Crafting with preschoolers can be fun, but it can be challenging too! Especially if you have 20+ very eager students who wants to participate! (Read about how I managed my class with Group Rotation.)...
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Digraphs & Vowel Combinations Dice
Digraphs and vowel combinations could be confusing to some students. Making use of these polystyrene dice will help them understand the concept better and assist in phoneme manipulation. (Affiliate...
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Egg Carton Word Building
If you know me, you know I love recycling, reusing and upcycling stuff. We often use recyclables in crafting and learning. This is one genius idea to use egg cartons for word building! Working at...
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Vowel Clip Strips
So your class(child) knows his/her letters, but what they might not know yet, is to differentiate between vowels and consonants. This is important to know since they will probably hear those terms...
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Read, Stick, Write
Being a therapist at a remedial school sometimes means I have to come up with fun ideas to “drill” spelling words. Most of our students struggle with blending and segmenting of phonemes, so “drilling”...
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I-E Sound Bingo
We have been learning the I-E sound, or split I sound as I call it. This Bingo game made it more fun, and fun is what kids need to remember better, right? See this fun way of learning words with sticky...
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Part of my job is to teach grade 3’s and grade 4’s to write: sentences, paragraphs and stories. I made these Sticky Sticks awhile ago for preschoolers, but turned it into silly sentence sticky sticks...
View ArticleLow-prep Conjuctions Lesson
Some days you just need a low-prep activity. This low-prep conjunctions lesson was perfect for the grade 3’s I see as a class for creative writing group. Before the students can be expected to write a...
View ArticlePlant-a-Word Spelling Activity
Some(most)learners need more than just a paper and pencil to get them motivated for spelling. That is why I come up with all kinds of fun ways to practice spelling. Like this Plant-a-Word Spelling...
View ArticleSubject & Predicate Writing Game
I made this Subject & Predicate Writing Game from craft sticks as a fun way to show the students that every sentence need a subjects and a predicate. I made the sentence options very simple, but...
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