Find out why a visual schedule works for some kids and how to use one to support your daily routines in your home. Teacher Melissa walks you through ideas on how to create one that works for you. She also models how to present the schedule to your child and prompts that you may need to reinforce the activity that is next on the schedule. We thank her daughter for helping model the concept!
Join the five frogs! Remember to sing along as they disappear one by one. Follow Teacher Pedra’s led by imitating the gross motor movements.
Join Teacher Bryan in circle time! You’ll learn how to take off like a rocket and get a special musical treat as you practice how to STOP and GO while dancing to the guitar music. There’s always the surprise box… what will be inside this week? Tune in to find out.
Teacher Jill and her puppet Sally are back! Join them in learning how to focus your attention. Teacher Jill also explains how to make your own ‘attenta-scopes’.
Join circle time as Teacher Pedra starts with the expectations of whole body listening and transitions into a book “Where is My Teddy” by Jez Alborough. We want to thank Candlewick Press, for allowing us to share this book. Have fun counting and singing along with the Five Little Ladybugs. Next, get ready to work on the letter “B”. I wonder what items the mystery box will contain! Can you find items in your home that start with the letter “B”?
Join Teacher Bryan as he reviews our circle time expectations, sings about Five Little Ducks, shares what we can do when we are feeling sick or happy, reads a story about bugs, and opens the surprise box to try a new food.
Sensory Tables – A classroom favorite! Teacher Pedra shares things you can do in a sensory table and the language use that can be targeted with children while playing.
Spence discovers that maybe it isn’t so bad to be small after all. Written and illustrated by Crista Chevalier and published by Albert Whitman & Co, Spence is Small is a lovely story about the things that make each one of us special and how we can use our strengths to help one another.
Communication or ‘Core’ boards assist children who have difficulty using oral language to effectively communicate. This tool is used in many of our classes to facilitate positive communicative interactions. Teacher Melissa describes how to use a core board and provides a video interaction as an example so you can learn how to use a core board at home with your child.
Teacher Morning reads The Little Blue Truck, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, while sitting in her own truck. This story tells us about the importance of friends helping one another to succeed!
