Saturday, July 30, 2016
Thursday, July 28, 2016
School Floors resource
Warm ups
Breathing
Eye exercises
Monkey bars, thumb under grip
Exercises
Rolling
Gliding
Unilateral flip flop, same side
Cross pattern flip flop, opposite sides
Stomach crawling
Rocking on all fours, forwards & backwards. Circular rocking.
Unilateral crawling, same side
Cross pattern crawling
Cross pattern walking
To check automatic response, challenge by:
Blindfolding
Backwards
Drum tempo
Additional fun activities
Blowing ping pong balls
Clapping rhythms
Animal walks
Simon says
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Get ready for school dvd
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Activities for under 5s
- reflex inhibition, spinning around on a chair
- reflex inhibition, upper body, fine motor skills, pulling yourself along on a scooter board using a rope on tummy and back
- reflex inhibition & laterality, cows in the milking shed, crawl and make animal sounds
- posture, upper body coordination, fine motor skills, developing fingers, monkey bar swing
- vestibular stimulation, hanging upside down
- vestibular system, spinning on chair counting backwards
- vestibular system, bouncing up and down on Swiss ball, rolling backwards and forward in tummy, side to side, on back, standing on top
- vestibular system- rolling like a pencil
- eye hand coordination, eye tracking flyaway sand balloons
- eye trackin, popping bubbles, watching feathers fall
- active listening, body concepts Simon says
- auditory sequential listening, colour card 3 places
- tactual stimulation, fine motor skills developing fingers, language, slime
- tactile stimulation, treasure in bark
- gross motor skills, midline knees stuck together walking on heels, walking low like a duck, tip toes, sideways steps backwards
- gross motor, mini tramp pat head at same time, tummy, back
- tactile, fine motor, sensory, language shaving foam on table draw shapes
- fine motor, midline, language painting with water
- fine motor language, finger play rhymes
- eye hand coordination throwing into a bin
- vision eye tracking catching scarves
- body concept, move to music songs, bean bag songs
- laterality, directionality, gross motor skills, carrying buckets of water
- laterality, bug & spoons
- body concept, open arms & legs lying flat on back
- directional language using hoops or feet outside, bottom inside
- directional language hokey tokey
-crossing midline beanbags into box on other side
-midline eye tracking follow thumb out in front
- left right brain integration, posture, body development language, climbing over and along bars forwards & backwards
- visual perception fine motor skills puzzles
- auditory perception make rhythm with sticks or clapping
- language draw shapes in chalk walking around them
Activities for older students
- reflex inhibition crossing midline flip flops
- reflex & vestibular stimulation spider walk hit ball with head
- reflex crawling under
- left right hand row row
- upper body crab crawling
- posture upper body coordination opposite arm & leg out
- vestibular stimulation rolling down a hill
- vestibular & gross motor, over & under with partners
- vision eye tracking car drive around a figure of 8
- auditory listening I like running to the beach, step in time
- auditory clap rhythms
- fine motor sticks move up and down using fingers, roll out in front
- fine motor knitting
- eye hand catch & throw
- sing a song about the body
- sticks to identify body parts
- gates left and right gates
- directional language inbetween in front behind
- driving cars around your body
- midline coordination cross pattern walking
- midline picking up animals with tongs put them in container in other side
-midline lie on back put balls in bucket on other side
-integration l r brain development with ribbons or scarves
- memory auditory patterns with blocks I make then cover then children make
- language visual memory animals in tray take something away
PMP
Moon hoppers around cones
Ladder climbing cross pattern
Bouncing balls
Strong man throw "make a strong person, point, throw"
One thinking skill at a time, practise technique before equipment
Rebound net
Individualise up
Practise on the floor before equipment
Sequential memory - hold things in short term memory. Start with 3 places and increase. You tell, child repeat then walks. Visual learners will track as you say, kinetic will want to move, auditory will turn and listen.
PMP develops children holistically
Fit the child by individualising programme by making it more challenging eg beanbag on head
Concentrate longer, physical, organisation skills
Smart words -Auditory & visual processing
Auditory discrimination & patterning
1. fruit, fruit, car
2. First sound in caterpillar c
3. Think of word inside your head tell us first sound, each have an object
4. Clap name pattern left to right
5. Clap nursery rhymes
Auditory synthesis
6. Catch names clap the bits catch the name do 3 letter words too
Auditory completion
7. Finish the sentence... We see with our...
8. My pet is a...
9. What am I? Feely bag
Auditory association
10. Pick a different word carrot, peas, Apple
Auditory sequential memory
11. Ears ready brains thinking shoulders ears nose touch as they say
12. Jump hop clap, tell me now do it
Visual discrimination
13. Pictures looking for the same or different things in two pictures
14. Looking for lower case letters that are the same or the odd one out
15. Pattern making 3 of each thing make your own pattern
16. Patterns with letter shapes
Monday, July 25, 2016
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Monday, July 11, 2016
How big is big?
Open ended number questions
Piece of wool, can you find something as long as, taller, shorter, go round 2 blocks in a year (week) to do comparing, weights, heights, lengths. Have diff stations but all focused on comparing and language
Bring a teddy, how are we going to find out, language
Children can choose what they want to measure, made a data card
Can introduce the concept of area down lower levels.
Could do on grid paper too.
Time after time - Averil Lee
Concepts of measurement in relation to time in the early years
3 big key ideas for measurement:
Compensatory, smaller units need more
Approximation, make a guess
Recursive partitioning, if it doesn't fit you'll have to break it into parts
3 concepts
1. Attribute
2. Unit
3. Scale
Refer to book 9, pgs 3-4
Stage 1
All about comparisons
Word bank, see PowerPoint
Children given plates and put on clock where they think they go
Correct number order
Placing of numbers, spacing even
12 at top, 6 at bottom (half)
Length of a minute, stand up and sit down when you thin one minute is up
Tea towel calendar
Level 3, concept of time
Level 4, concept of scale
Keynote speaker - Numeracy Symposium 2016
Advanced Multiplication & Division with Whole Numbers - Vince Wright
"You rolled 24" Why did you choose third s?
You know what to do and you've got the knowledge to carry it out
How many different outfits can we make? 
"How many do you think are going to be on each piece?" Encourage prediction.
Don't underestimate what young children can do. Call on what they know naturally about equal sharing and ask them to think ahead.
Use symbols even at 5 years, so they can start to recognise them.
What does research tell us?
Packet of 3 balls in front of child
How many balls in 4 packets?
Counted 1 by 1 in groups of 3s. Sees it as a counting question initially.
"Can you think of a faster way?"
Knowledge makes the difference.
Counting based strategy
1-1 counting
Skip counting
Additive strategy eg 3+3
Multiplicative strategy
Expose them to it and they will be able to do it.
Opportunities to learn.
Introduce language children are going to need. Multi link cubes playing with the starting length and play with it. Content knowledge is being created. Little pieces of variation rather than completely different.
Need understanding and fluency
Mr Bean video - counting sheep (YouTube)
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