Catching Up!

In between the daily writing and reading activities, we squeeze in some math and art! It develops their fine motor skills and language skills in explaining the processes. We worked on counting by 2s and 5s with stackable cubes.

We also introduced some new multi-sensory stations to strengthen various ways for the students to learn their vocabulary. We have “Type the Word”, where they look for the letters on a keyboard and type them out (it’s a paper screen though! :)). This helps with their hand-eye coordination. There is also “Sand the Word”, which they all love! They have the chance to write the vocabulary words in sand with a chopstick (we switched from popsicle sticks once we saw they were too short!), which practices their pencil grip and and proper letter formation (without going through lots of paper)!

We also made some Talking Sticks last week and they will be coming home today! The students enjoyed choosing their own feathers and beads to decorate the Talking Sticks. It’s nice to throw in some art and encourage the students’ creativity! Thanks to Ms. Joy for the great art project idea! 🙂

We changed up our regular journal writing to do some Sticker Stories! I gave the students each a sticker to begin with and they were asked to start writing a story. Once they felt it was as far as they could go, I would give them another sticker to continue the story. The students tried to use their current and past vocabulary words as well. It was fun to see their creativity!