Welcome to ''B'' week at our school, where the focus has been on beans, beads, bears and the color brown! For our speech and language group lesson this week, we made our own very round and very delicious ''Brown Bear'' face. I developed the idea after I Googled ''bear recipes for kids'' and a polar bear recipe came up! It requires a rice ...

Schools are closed this week and little ones are home for the holidays! Today's post includes some new ideas to keep them occupied as well as some flashbacks to posts from the past! If you're staying in for New Years Eve this year with your little ones, why not plan out a fun, kid-friendly dinner that they can both help you make and ...

At the preschool where I work, we teach about the three holidays of Hanukkah, Kwanza and Christmas during the month of December. As you may or may not know, each holiday has various foods that are an important part of the core celebration, just as turkey is a key part of any traditional Thanksgiving meal. Last December I shared two ...

Earlier this past week, one of the teachers I work with, Jamie Zarmanian, shared with our preschool classes this fabulous recipe for pumpkin spice Play-Doh. The entire classroom smelled like cinnamon cookies! The texture was perfect - soft, but not sticky and children really seemed to enjoy using a different type of Play-Doh to roll, ...

As a speech-language pathologist, it's important to continue to expand educational lessons that our students find motivating. Last month, in honor of Autism Awareness Month, Mighty Book Jr  began offering a free membership to all Autism Speaks members until December 31. I have been using this site to create many lessons centered around ...

Last week I shared some food-based lesson plans related to Eric Carle's book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Today's recipe can be easily paired with another one of Eric Carle's timeless gems, The Grouchy Ladybug. I used this recipe a few years ago with a class of kindergarteners who had all been diagnosed with autism. What I loved about this ...