5 Low Prep Fall Activities For Your Toddler
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3y ago
Wahoooooo!!  Who is excited for fall?!?!  My Tinkering Toddlers structured playgroup classes were on a hiatus for the summer, but are now back in full force for October.  All things fall are on my mind, so I have come up with five easy activities for you to do with your toddler this fall. #1 Fall Finds Sensory Box As part of our Woodland Animals theme week, we will be learning all about animals and things that live in the forest.  Sensory boxes are such a great way to make learning hands-on for our smallest learners.  I chose kinetic sand from Lakeshore Learning a ..read more
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Teaching Setting in the Upper Grades
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3y ago
Setting is one of the first concepts I teach in both reading and writing at the beginning of the school year.  I have a simple, yet effective strategy for how to introduce setting to your older children.  You can check it out on the collaborative blog I contribute to on the 21st of every month called Conversations from the Classroom.  Click on the picture or here to take you to this post ..read more
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Designing Effective Upper Elementary Math Lessons With the Intervention Student in Mind
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3y ago
How do you design math lessons that are sure to reach your students that typically need intervention?  One way that I have found is extreme success with is using the gradual release model (Douglas Fisher).  Students need structure, repeated practice, and the opportunity to show that they have learned and can do the work independently.  I typically refer to this approach as the "I Do, We Do, You Do" model and it is a way to provide a scaffold to those students that need a little more help. I Do This portion of the lesson is teacher driven.  The teacher models a v ..read more
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5 Painless Ways to Teach Toddlers Colors
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Teaching Toddlers ColorsWorking with your toddler to identify colors doesn't have to be an awful task.  Here are some creative, hands-on ways to teach and reinforce color identification and sorting.  Kids learn best by doing and what better way to get involved in the learning process than by getting your hands on it, literally.  The following are a few ways to make learning how to identify colors concrete and fun! 1. Name Rainbows Use your child's name to create a rainbow of colors.  Use colored pom poms to have the child match to the color of the letter.  Put ..read more
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5 Tips for Using Photo Cards to Increase Your Toddler's Vocabulary
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3y ago
Learning how to stretch and expand your child's vocabulary can greatly improve their language development.  Here are five strategies to use with basic photo cards to expand your child's vocabulary. Gather Materials First off, you will need to gather your materials.  I am NOT affiliated with any of these products, but have bought and use them with my 2 year old.  You do not need any of these and there are LOTS of options, but what I like about these are that they are crisp photos, large in size, and have minimal distractions in the background so this helps keep my son's attent ..read more
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How to Set Up Your Own Structured Toddler Playgroup
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3y ago
I know it is easy to fall into the same routine every week and thus feeling less than adequate as your toddler's only teacher.  I was feeling this way from time to time and wanted to create some kind of structured playgroup that would help keep me accountable for doing all the great activities I had in my mind that I knew my toddler would benefit from doing AND help stay-at-home parents who aren't teachers find their inner teacher and build that confidence that they can and are a great teacher to their child.  Thus Tinkering Toddlers came about.  If you are the Long Beach, CA ..read more
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Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators
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3y ago
Fractions can truly take a good portion of the year for students to fully grasp the concept and many will take even longer.  Over the years, I have learned a few things about how I go about introducing this really challenging topic. Start Concrete Many teachers start off by introducing the algorithm for how to add fractions with unlike denominators.  This to me is the worst thing you can do!  There are so many steps and if you forget one, you are screwed and it really doesn't help your students understand why they are doing that.  What I like to do is involve food.   ..read more
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Unique Gifts for Valentine's Day or Other Special Days for Kids and Adults Alike!
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3y ago
Are you looking for a little gift to a loved one in your life for Valentine's Day or some other special day?  Here are a couple of ideas I came up with for adults and children alike. Travel Activity Kits Travel activity kits are perfect for children of any age who are always on the go.  The beauty of these are that they can be thrown easily into a backpack for car, plane, and train trips or for at restaurants, doctor's offices, etc.  Customize it to meet the needs of your child based on age and interests.  The one pictured below includes a visual menu for a two year old ..read more
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Ideas for Developing Your Toddler's Expressive Language
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3y ago
Expressive language is what you are able to say and how you verbally communicate with others.  This is contrasted with receptive language which is what you understand.  There is a whole progression of milestones that children are expected to meet at different times in their young lives.  So what happens when your child isn't meeting all of their speech milestones?  You sign them up for speech of course! Below are a couple tips and ideas for things you can do to help build your child's expressive language. Narrate E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G! When you narrate, you are naming ev ..read more
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Planning for Small Group Instruction Easily and Efficiently Using Google Sheets
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3y ago
The key to planning for small group instruction in the upper elementary grades is backwards planning.  This is how I make and plan for flexible groups without getting overwhelmed! Step one:  Plan Your Groups Based on Data Each school and district requires you to use different data to form your groups, so how to collect this information is not going to be discussed in this post in detail.  However, if you have the freedom to choose how you collect data, I highly recommend using the DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment) for making reading groups.  This assessment is leng ..read more
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