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Creating a Learning Center

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Yesterday I discussed learning centers and offered some tips in managing them in a classroom. Learning centers can be great additions to a teacher’s curriculum. However, they must be created and carried out properly in order to be effective. This article will discuss how to create a learning center. The first step in creating a successful learning center is to determine which skill the center will be designed to reinforce. A center should focus on one or two specific skills to which students have previously been introduced. Because centers are independent and student directed, do not try to introduce new … Continue reading →

Sunday Suggestions: Fun With Learning

My daughter started reading recently; she’s grasping the basics slowly but surely. In the meanwhile, as part of her kindergarten homework, she has to do sight words. Her sight words are as simple as I, can, like, am, and more of the same. It’s important to make learning fun for our kids. So for those of you who enjoy playing games with your children, here are a few suggestions for pen and paper games that just need the two of you and some light to play. Hangman We played our first round of this on Friday. It’s hard to remember … Continue reading →

Summer Fun & Learning

When it comes to summertime it’s important to generate fun activities that your kids can do and learn from. The best activities that don’t even feel like learning experiences at all, but still offer a great deal of teaching. Here are some fun things that Cassidy and I have done over the last week and she’s been getting some lessons in science, math and literature. Water Craft Have a bathtub or a kiddie pool? Gather up the following items: Key Drinking Straw Rock Leaf Inflatable Ball Plastic Spoon Hard Doll Fill the bathtub or the kiddie pool up with water, … Continue reading →

Activities That Teach – #7 The Case for Personal Space

The basic concept of “personal space” is an important social rule. It’s a simple idea–each of us has an invisible bubble around us where we feel safe, and if someone crosses into it we become uncomfortable. Most children instinctively sense when they enter someone else’s personal space and when theirs is crossed, but the special-needs child may need help learning these boundaries. She might forcefully invade her peer’s space, oblivious to how it makes him feel. And this could cause her to be rejected by peers and have difficulty making friends. Or your child’s inability to recognize when his own … Continue reading →