My Montessori Journey: Free Downloads One of the questions I get most frequently from parents of my students is, "Is s/he playing with the other children?" I realize that a major reason that many parents send their children to preschool is to prepare them for kindergarten. A large part of that preparedness is what we often refer to as "socialization." As I have mulled over this question and how I tend to respond to it, I was inspired to write this post about the many aspects of socialization. First of all, in the preschool classroom children learn how to follow directions given by adults who are not their parents. In our classroom we focus on the following four group time behaviors: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) I have always had these same expectations for group time behavior. "Legs criss-cross, Legs criss-cross, Hands in your lap, Hands in your lap. This year for the first time I have added picture cards which correspond to our group behavior expectations. Download Picture prompts for line time behavior Whew!
ALPHABET, FRUITS, VEGETABLES, TRANSPORT, PHONICS Fine Motor Skills Gross motor skills develop in rough-and-tumble play and physical activities, but fine motor skills are different. These carefully choreographed skills by smaller muscles must be practiced and fine-tuned. The only way to do this is through repeated practice. In our modern world a different set of fine skills is required. Using a mouse and clicking with a single finger may be the first digital skill students learn. Touch pads become even trickier when there are no visual cues. Students will learn to type eventually, but gaining strength and dexterity in individual fingers will help to speed that process along. Hand-Eye Coordination Piggybacking on the mouse idea, hand-eye skills will also be developed by using computer accessories. Computer and video games often get a bad rap, but educational games are different. Digital Literacy Nothing can top early digital literacy and preschoolers are eager to soak up any real-world knowledge they can gain.
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What Is Your Learning Style? What Is Your Learning Style? This quiz asks 24 questions and will take less than five minutes to complete. Try not to think too hard -- just go with your first thought when describing your daily activities and interests. By the end, you may have some new insights into your learning preferences. Editor's Note (2013): There is no scientific evidence, as of yet, that shows that people have specific, fixed learning styles or discrete intelligences, nor that students benefit when teachers target instruction to a specific learning style or intelligence. Universal Preschool.com NUMBERS, ALPHABET, FESTIVALS ABCya is the leader in free educational computer games and mobile apps for kids. The innovation of a grade school teacher, ABCya is an award-winning destination for elementary students that offers hundreds of fun, engaging learning activities. Millions of kids, parents, and teachers visit ABCya.com each month, playing over 1 billion games last year. Apple, The New York Times, USA Today, Parents Magazine and Scholastic, to name just a few, have featured ABCya’s popular educational games. ABCya’s award-winning Preschool computer games and apps are conceived and realized under the direction of a certified technology education teacher, and have been trusted by parents and teachers for ten years. Our educational games are easy to use and classroom friendly, with a focus on the alphabet, numbers, shapes, storybooks, art, music, holidays and much more!
Hands-On Apps for Diverse Learners Using games to teach can increase student engagement and add meaning to learning. Hands-on apps give children the ability to mix tactile play with a digital experience. Thanks to augmented reality, more and more apps in the market blur the line between digital and analog. For example, Bloxels, new from Pixel Press, uses color-coded blocks that can be scanned in with an iPad camera to create a video game level. Hands-On Game Jam This summer, I organized a hands-on game jam day at the A. For the opening whole-group session, I showed a BrainPOP video about video games. Teachers next hosted 30-minute breakout sessions in different classrooms, taking care to ensure that students were as active as possible in playing, creating, and designing. One room featured Compose Yourself, a new game from ThinkFun (publisher of the coding board game Robot Turtles, Laser Maze, MakerStudio, and other fun learning toys). Playing With Tech Constructasaurus, playable for free on BrainPOP Jr.'
Sheppard Software: Fun free online learning games and activities for kids. Early Years A basic numeral recognition activitiy. Develop your mouse control and number skills by matching number digits to words in the 1 to 10 range. © v2vtraining.co.uk An initial sounds phonic activity that develops the link between letters and the initial sounds of some common objects. A counting and numeral recognition set of activities. Develop your mouse control and counting skills as you help Lecky collect objects to match numbers in the 1 to 5 or 6 to 10 range. Colouring and matching activity. Use the Simple Scales to weigh the bears. Dressing for the Weather is a drag and drop dressing activity. A drag and drop alien making activity to develop mouse control skills and to develop language. Drag and drop fun with the Scary Spuds. © 3913.co.uk Drag and drop the names of the single digit numbers on to the picture. Drag and drop the names of the colours on to the picture. Comparison activities - developing the language of comaprison using such terms as biggest, smallest, longest, etc.
Learning to Read for Kids | Learn to Read with Phonics | Free Trial – Reading Eggs Fast English Vocab Game You can set this page as a homework task for a group of students; doing so will give you a record of who has completed the task. Visit the teacher's section for more information. In the teacher's section you can also alter the sets of content, so that only some of the images appear. Alternatively, this link will start the game with the food content automatically selected and loaded. Use the teacher's section to create more links or embed code. This is a simple game for learning basic English vocabulary. At the first screen you can click on 'Fast' or 'Slow'.
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