This craft is super sweet! Hearts that are laced and adorned with pony beads. A great way to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Once complete, children can write an endearing message to their special family member or friend. All you need is a package of foam hearts (one package goes a long way, containing 12 foam hearts each), a spool of yarn, and a package of pony beads. Many fine motor skills are addressed in this fun Valentine’s Day-themed activity. Perfect to do during therapy sessions, as a class, and/or at home. All the supplies can be gathered for pennies on the dollar at your local Dollar Tree.
Tag Archives: Executive Functioning Skills
ADHD and Handwriting: Part One
What you need to know about ADHD and handwriting skills.
How To Teach Grade-Schoolers Organizational Skills…Starting With the Disorganized Desk
Having a disorganized desk can make school hard to manage. When the teacher asks his or her students to take out their science books and turn to page 57, the child who is lost in their desk trying to find the book often can not remember the page number once it is found. Many times this student will remain lost in the lesson because of their fraught start. Tasks that should be simple become overwhelming and time- consuming often leading to stress and frustration. Organization can be an elusive skill that many kids struggle to acquire. The fact of the matter is there’s a lot that goes into being organized. Organization is part of a set of skills called executive functions. Keeping a desk organized requires more than just putting things away. Managing school materials requires planning, prioritizing, decision making, sequencing, task initiation, and following through with those tasks to completion. Some kids need extra help to set up and maintain an organized desk space at school. This post will focus on how to provide grade-schoolers with the support they need to establish and sustain a functional workspace at school.
9 Strategies to Increase Attention and On-Task Behavior
Above all, the most important thing needed for a child to progress with anything is focus. When presenting a child with a task, particularly a novel task, you must establish meaningful engagement with the child, in other words, where the child can focus on the task. What exactly does focus mean? The ability to sustain selective attention or concentration on the task at hand while ignoring or filtering out the non-relevant or distracting information in one’s environment. Sustained selective attention yields steady results on a task over time. For some children, often, this is very challenging.
Fun Strokes 