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Mi Granjita - Maestras Jardineras, Inicial y Preescolar

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Juegos Divertidos | Actividades de coordinación motriz para los pequeños 👩‍🏫
💟 Juegos que ayudan a desarrollar motricidad gruesa mientras se divierten jugando 🌟 | By Mi Granjita - Maestras Jardineras, Inicial y Preescolar | Facebook

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Create an obstacle course with furniture or things around home and talk about your course using prepositions (over, under, through, etc). Write about it! Use snap type app to take a picture and write about it. 

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SMART activities to develop smarter students

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SMART activities to develop smarter students

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In this week's S.M.A.R.T. Tips for Parents, we'll be sharing in-home activities and ideas to help improve your child's balance and vestibular system.

​Did you know that learning to balance while walking helps us learn how to balance while sitting in a chair? Check out these balance beam activities!

How to: Household Item Balance Beam
Use painters tape to make Balance Beams at home. Start with straight lines, then change it up with a variety of shapes! Check out our S.M.A.R.T. at Home tip from January 2017.

Balance Beams are everywhere! Share a picture of where you walked a Balance Beam today!

It's time to get outside! Share pictures of your Shadow Balance Beam with us!

A Parent's Guide to S.M.A.R.T. Activities at Home
We've heard from a number of teachers and parents looking for S.M.A.R.T. activities at home, and that's what we've been working on! Check back daily for great in-home activities and tips to share with your parents and students! Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram (@achance2grow) for video demonstrations and more! ​

​At school, an important part of your child's S.M.A.R.T. course was the Slap Track. Your child's teacher used it to review material, but you can use creeping as a movement break.

​How do teachers add structured movement into their day? Here is a simple, but fun way, to add in movement while learning.

We recently rediscovered "Hide the Thimble," make it S.M.A.R.T. by creeping to find the hidden object. ​

So, she created a card containing clever options and attached it to her school lanyard. With a set of S.M.A.R.T. Switch-a-roos within reach, Nicole is able to tackle transitions without trouble AND her students benefit from the added stimulation her creative card carries. She has kindly shared her creation with you! Find the download here.

One S.M.A.R.T. Teacher Stephanie Umberger, from La Crosse, knows it doesn't have to take a lot of time or energy to create a fun theme in her S.M.A.R.T. program. The students in her 4K program love when she changes up the course by adding two or three themed items. This month, she has shapes in one Slap/Creep Track and hearts in a repeating color pattern in the other. While fun for her students, we think this is great way to increase the number of inputs of the shape!

Grandparents (& Aunties and Uncles!) love getting homemade Valentine's and children love making them. Here are some fun S.M.A.R.T. Fine Motor ideas for you to try with your child at home. Utilizing your child's fine motor muscles by requiring him/her to isolate his/her pointer finger and thumb strengthening these muscles which help with handwriting, buttoning, and zipping.

Mosiac Hearts have your child rip scraps of paper into small pieces, then glue them onto a page on which you have drawn a heart.

Pipe Cleaner Hearts have your child string several beads onto a pipe cleaner. Connect the two ends of the pipe cleaner together and twist to secure. Finally, bend the pipe cleaner into a heart shape. You can use Valentine colors if you like, but we love other variations too!

Happy Hearts have your child gather odds and ends from your craft area (feathers, beads, sequence, etc). Cut hearts out of construction paper or use foam hearts from the craft store. Using school glue, have you child adhere the items making a face onto the hearts.

We only have eyes for you! Or perhaps your students will when you add this fun vision tracker to your S.M.A.R.T. routine this February.
Once done (and dry in the case of glue) add a small ball or marble. Your students will track the ball as it rolls through the maze. Doing so will help to mature their vision system which will impact their reading skills. Who wouldn't love that?

The Inspired Treehouse inspired us we hope you feel inspired too!

Download our heart maze template and print it onto card stock. Next, you can create a track by:

First, think outside the box. Try allowing your child to lie on the floor while doing their homework. This position requires less focus and concentration of the balance system while also helping to provide information about where their body is in space. You may find this eliminates half of the battle.

Need to practice spelling words? How about jumping or hopping them out? Write a word on a personal-sized whiteboard and have your child jump up and down while saying each letter (one jump per letter). You could use this same approach with learning math facts. Research shows combining movement while learning increases the speed at which children learn!

Finally, consider alternate times of the day to accomplish the work. School days are packed with loads of learning. So, while sitting down right after school may seem to you like the best time to "get it done and over with", your child's brain may need to rest first. Some families even wait until the next morning before school to complete assignments.

Welcome back from winter break! We know getting back into the swing of things after the break can be a challenge. For some students the dramatic change in structure from being at home for a week or two and then back to school is difficult. It may appear as if they have forgotten everything you've taught in the first trimester of school and you may feel like you are back to square one.

Stay low, push off with your foot, and reach out with your arms. When I see a good gator I'm going to ring a bell." Or "When you go to the Creep Track today, be sure to look at your hand as you slap the card gently. Say what you see as you slap it and go slowly. Slow is good on the Creep Track."

You may even want to reteach these activities, just as you did at the beginning of the year. Have them sit down in an area. Go over each activity one at a time. Model for them the correct procedure and then have a student model the procedure. Finally, have everyone do the activity and be sure to give specific and positive feedback as the children do the activities. We know taking the time to refresh, review, and reteach will also help you and your students reinvest in the benefits of the S.M.A.R.T. Program.

References:
S.M.A.R.T. Pre-K CORE Guide pages 33-34, 40-41, 47-49, and 50-53
S.M.A.R.T. Curriculum Guide pages 36-37, 51-53, 66-68, and 69-71

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In this week's S.M.A.R.T. Tips for Parents, we'll be sharing in-home activities and ideas to help improve your child's balance and vestibular system. ​Did you know that learning to balance while walking helps us learn how to balance while sitting in a chair? Check out these balance beam activities!