Mini Miracles

Happy first day of Fall 🍁. We celebrated by making a fall craft. We traced our hands, cut, and taped our hands on another piece of paper. We used bath loofahs to paint our colorful leaves. Once done with painting we took the hand stencil off and we were left a beautiful fall tree, with our hands and fingers representing the tree long and branches. As an art therapist, I strongly encourage the use of other materials for arts and crafts, such as using a bath loofah to paint. This will allow children to express their art skills, think outside the box, and be more creative in the future.

Benefits of this activity:
⭐️ Creativity
⭐️ Strengthening hand muscles
⭐️ Fine motor skills
⭐️ Hand and eye coordination
⭐️ Building language

3D Apples for our September back to school theme. One of the most challenging crafts we have done as it required kids to focus on different parts of the craft at once. A great craft for strengthening their hand muscles.

Benefits of this activity:
⭐️ Practice coordination and patience
⭐️ Practice control
⭐️ Strengthening hand muscles
⭐️ Pre-writing exercise
⭐️ Fine motor skills
⭐️ Hand and eye coordination

Happy National Pepperoni Pizza Day. We celebrated by doing pepperoni math. For our second activity we used our number erasers, matched the the number of pepperonis, and finally added up all the pepperonis.

Benefits of this activity:
⭐️ Number recognition
⭐️ Language building
⭐️ Fine motor skills
⭐️ Hand and eye coordination

Happy National Pepperoni Pizza Day 🍕. We celebrated by doing pepperoni math. For our first activity we rolled a dice and placed the correct number of pepperonis on the pizza

Benefits of this activity:
⭐️ Number recognition
⭐️ Language building
⭐️ Fine motor skills
⭐️ Hand and eye coordination

Alphabet practice along with pre-writing practice. For our September back to school theme we practiced matching uppercase letters to lowercase letters.

Practice makes improvement. However it is important that we stay patient, provide children with activities that can help their minds grow, their muscles get stronger, and they learn (not just memorize).

Benefits of this activity:
⭐️ Alphabet recognition
⭐️ Pre-writing practice
⭐️ Language building
⭐️ Fine motor skills
⭐️ Hand and eye coordination

Today we packed up our book bags with supplies for our September back to school theme. The goal for today was to select a supply, roll the dice, count the correct number of supplies and pack in the book bag.

Benefits of this activity:
⭐️ Counting
⭐️ Language building
⭐️ Fine motor skills
⭐️ Hand and eye coordination

Happy International Dot Day. Of course we had to celebrate by a learning activity. We placed our dot stickers on the correct uppercase letter, lowercase letter and color.

Benefits of this activity:
⭐️ Fine motor skills
⭐️ Hand and eye coordination
⭐️ Simultaneous movement of both hands
⭐️ Language building
⭐️ Alphabet and color

Name spelling practice. Every month, I make everyone in the class a name practice page based on our theme. This month we did apples for our back to school theme. We have also been focusing on lowercase letters this month.

I laminate the page and the pieces to keep them sturdy. It also makes it easier to clean. I add velcro to keep the pieces together.

For reference, Delara is 2 years and 10 months ❤️

Waffle puzzles can be used in so many different ways. Today our main focus was using our hand muscles so we used the waffle puzzles to make a box and different shapes. During the process we practiced the alphabet, numbers, shapes and colors.

Benefits of this activity:
⭐️ Fine motor skills
⭐️ Hand and eye coordination
⭐️ Simultaneous movement of both hands
⭐️ Language building
⭐️ Alphabet, number, shape, and color recognition
⭐️ counting rows and columns

Apple craft for our September back to school theme. A for Apple 🍎

See, match and spell. A great way to play, recognize, and practice letters. This month we are focusing more on lowercase letters

Alphabet and number construction
activity.

Benefits of this activity:
⭐️ Fine motor skills
⭐️ Hand and eye coordination
⭐️ Language building
⭐️ Alphabet, number, and color recognition