I have written in the past about some of the drawing work I do with my students. If you want to read about our work with 3D objects, setting, comprehension, or just want to learn about the drawing program, click on these links to previous posts to read more. I wanted to share one lesson [...]
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Math and Fine Motor with One to One Correspondence
My kids have been struggling this year with counting carefully. We work on a lot of counting strategies, such as sliding objects to the side when they count, to help them with accuracy. However, as I was working on my end of year assessments, I noticed that a lot of them are still miss counting [...]
3D Objects and Drawing
One of our current math objectives is for kids to be able to recognize and name common 3D objects, and for them to be able to relate them to everyday objects. My kids are getting pretty good at this after a variety of activities. I want to share about what we did today. About once [...]
Teaching Them to Tie
I go back and forth on shoe tying. Some years I decide that shoe tying is not on my list of things to teach, and I toss it back into the parents’ court. Other years I decide that it might be worth my while to invest in helping my little ones become competent at tying. [...]
Handmade Valentine Project
I am excited to share my experience this year with making Valentines with my daughter. I snagged a wonderful idea from Pinterest, and we made Valentines both for her friends at school, as well as my students. Here is the original source from Pinterest if you are interested: Crayon Valentines Our project had several steps. [...]
Multimedia Art Project for the Holidays
I was excited to download this great freebie from Deanna Jump last week. It is a very cute emergent reader that my kids just loved! I decided to make copies for each student, and we turned it into a multimedia art project. I want to share how we used this book, in case any of [...]
Using Drawing to Build Fine Motor Skills, Teach Vocabulary, Math, and Reading!
I have always been a bit of an artist. It began with a love of coloring in my preschool years, and drawing and painting became a passion during high school. I liked to make everything I did a bit artistic. My math projects doubled as art projects, as my “stella octangula” was a patterned kaleidoscope [...]
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