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Sensory

I enjoy creating opportunities for small world play – especially outside where I try to incorporate them into the natural surroundings for children to investigate, explore and use in a way that makes sense to them. Often small worlds are created in tubs and on trays but this doesn’t always work as well in an outdoor environment – it can be easy to lose small pieces and I also prefer that the children are able to freely explore and use some of the natural treasures and materials found in their o

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I enjoy creating opportunities for small world play – especially outside where I try to incorporate them into the natural surroundings for children to investigate, explore and use in a …

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Sensory

Toddler Fine Motor Whisk and Sieve! – The Empowered Educator Fine motor muscle strengthening and hand/eye coordination are skills that are important to focus on , especially for toddlers, but that doesn’t mean that we as educators and parents need to provide detailed and expensive activities to target these skills…you can always do it through the magic of simple play based learning!

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Toddler Fine Motor Whisk and Sieve! – The Empowered Educator Fine motor muscle strengthening and hand/eye coordination are skills that are important to focus on , especially for toddlers, but …

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Physical Therapy

Teaching students self-regulation skills is critical to their success in the classroom. Our guest blogger, who is an occupational therapist, has written an informative post about sensory strategies to help kids with self-regulation. Every teacher has students in their classroom who can benefit from learning effective self-regulation strategies, and it’s especially helpful for students who need sensory-based strategies. Click through to read the full post. #classroommanagement #behaviormanagement

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Teaching students self-regulation skills is critical to their success in the classroom. Our guest blogger, who is an occupational therapist, has written an informative post about sensory strategies to help …

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Sensory

Visual Discrimination Collection. Do your students struggle with recognizing similarities and differences between shapes, size, colors, objects, and patterns? This ability to determine differences and similarities between objects helps us to understand and interpret the environment around us. Visual discrimination is especially important to learn how to read and write. The visual discrimination collection includes 12 titles to practice visual perceptual skills. (AD)

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Visual Discrimination Collection. Do your students struggle with recognizing similarities and differences between shapes, size, colors, objects, and patterns? This ability to determine differences and similarities between objects helps us …

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Physical Therapy

Most therapists don’t get much if any formal training in aquatics, especially when it comes to pediatrics. This is unfortunate because many kids—particularly those with neuro-motor impairments—can benefit greatly from aquatic therapy.

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Most therapists don’t get much if any formal training in aquatics, especially when it comes to pediatrics. This is unfortunate because many kids—particularly those with neuro-motor impairments—can benefit greatly from …

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