Stellar Beginnings Enrichment Academy

Turn taking skills develop other skills...and other skills develop turn taking skills! Here are activities and how to facilitate them: https://www.theottoolbox.com/turn-taking/

Happy birthday to our wonderful Speech Pathologist, Teacher Marie! 🎂
Your exceptional skills, endless patience, and kindest heart continue to make a positive impact to everyone around you. Your students adore you, and it’s amazing to witness how much they improve under your care and guidance. You are deeply appreciated and so loved by your kids and colleagues alike.
Have a wonderful celebration today and sending you stellar love, teach! 🥳🎉♥️✨

Happy Birthday to our dear Teacher Tan! 🎂

Your positive energy, excellent skills, and genuinely kind nature make such a big difference in the lives of your students and everyone around you. It’s no surprise that your students love you so much as you make learning, growth, and every session feel safe, fun, and meaningful.

Wishing you a stellar birthday filled with happiness, laughter, and all the goodness you deserve! 🎉🥳♥️✨

Sweet learning, one popsicle at a time 🍭🍦☀️

Our stellar students practiced auditory processing through following procedures and answering questions, while also exploring creativity and retelling experiences using summer-themed vocabulary words. And of course, the fun wouldn’t be complete without enjoying real yummy popsicles after! Learning always feels extra special when it’s this fun. ✨

A simple activity with so many hidden skills ✨

Today’s obstacle course and matching activity worked on balance, coordination, problem solving, and visual discrimination as he carefully crossed the stepping stones and searched for the correct puzzle pieces.
We also practiced fine motor skills through picking up and placing pieces, and followed multi-step verbal instructions. Throughout the activity, we also worked on slowing down, thinking before acting, and showed goal-directed persistence by sticking with the task step by step instead of rushing through.

Shake It ‘Til We Make It ✨🍫🥛

From filling out order forms to pouring, blending, adding toppings, and drizzling, we practiced following procedures, taking turns, waiting, answering questions, and working together.

And yes… the milkshake spilled and shocked everyone. 🌋🤭 But that became part of the learning too: problem solving, figuring out what went wrong, correcting it, and cleaning up afterwards.
Hands-on learning + a sweet treat at the end = the best kind of weekend! 🤎

Happy Birthday to our dearest Ms. Kay! 🎂
Your kindness, warmth, and unwavering loyalty make such a difference in our days. Thank you for always being dependable, caring, and welcoming to everyone around you. We are truly grateful for all that you do for the our stellar family.

Wishing you a birthday filled with love, happiness, good health, and all the blessings you deserve. May your year ahead be as wonderful as you are! Sending all our love your way, Kay! 🥳♥️✨

We work with kids on handwriting skills and they show great work in OT sessions...but how is it so hard for them to carryover those skills into the classroom or on homework?

Well, there's a lot going on in the classroom and executive functioning skills to filter out input and using the working memory skills and attention to recall strategies plays a role. So do a few other areas. Let's talk about carryover skills: https://www.theottoolbox.com/ways-to-help-kids-carryover-handwriting

Here is all of the ways that executive functioning skills impact handwriting: https://www.theottoolbox.com/handwriting-executive-function-skill-problems/