Adapting Education
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A few different things
On the shelves above is a collection of animals from different categories. I made place cards to put behind the animals so the girls could actually categorize them even when they are just cleaning up & putting things back in place. This gave me opportunities to teach as they put something back so it…
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Spelling & Writing
We pulled out the pink series to match picture to words. We start out with about five words & matching pictures. The girls get a word & 2 images to choose from one being the word match. After reading & matching they spell out the word with the moveable alphabet then directly write the…
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Sandletters & Sand tray
As a break from actual writing but still following the movements we worked with the sand paper letters & sandtray. The girls trace a sound, we talk about it, we go over the sounds & I usually use the chalkboard to write them all out in the association method for review. We use both the…
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A morning surprise
We moved furniture around the house the other day to make shelves more accessible & to give me extra space to put out materials without having to rotate them as often but still giving access to prior materials the kids enjoy. So one shelf landed in the living room in a very new place and…
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What equals what?
The hanging bead stair is fun for both girls now. Especially now that Lily can get the beads on & off the hooks on the hanging stair, it feels extra special for her to accomplish both math concepts and fine motor skills all in one. Maggie is getting fast and memorizing color patterns of beads…
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Dogs
The girls have really enjoyed matching games recently. Following their lead I’ve made them available. I pulled 2 different games out & the dogs were chosen. Maggie immediately said Sequoia (our Shepard) was a German Shepard after naming the dog. We went on to find Timber as a lab and tried finding our stray/adopted dog…
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