In order to work on specific IEP goals, it is crucial to have access to a wide range of materials and activities. IEP goals cover Academic Skills, Fine and Gross Motor Skills, Social/Emotional/Behavioral Skills, Adaptive/Daily Living Skills, Communication Skills, and Health Skills. Having access to activities that cover a range of developmental skills, will help our students grow across all areas.
Specific materials in my order such as the magnetic tiles, letter sound bins, window blocks, and counting cars allows my team to focus on pre-academic skills: expressive/receptive color recognition, identify numbers and counting using 1:1 correspondence, and vocabulary and letter practice.
Items like the mailbox, light box, community garages, magna cars/trucks, arch blocks, and the waffle and gear builders allows for imaginative play. Fostering imaginative play increases opportunities to participate in cooperative play skills (e.g. sharing, initiating and responding to peers, turn taking, etc.). The games in my order (Monkeying Around and Pizza Topple) not only work on reciprocal play skills, but also fine motor skills.
The story telling sets and the easel will allow myself and the other preschool teachers to bring to life our lesson plans we already have set out. These items will help us teach the value of reading and writing while fostering the creative skills in each child.
In preschool, it is very important to be able to rotate materials to keep learning fun and engaging. Having materials to match our monthly themes (e.g. growing/sequencing, Dr. Seuss, transportation, zoo/safari, etc.) will help connect our lesson plans to play. In addition, access to these items will help teach basic preschool skills; ABCs, counting, colors, etc. in fun imaginative way!
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In order to work on specific IEP goals, it is crucial to have access to a wide range of materials and activities. IEP goals cover Academic Skills, Fine and Gross Motor Skills, Social/Emotional/Behavioral Skills, Adaptive/Daily Living Skills, Communication Skills, and Health Skills. Having access to activities that cover a range of developmental skills, will help our students grow across all areas.
Specific materials in my order such as the magnetic tiles, letter sound bins, window blocks, and counting cars allows my team to focus on pre-academic skills: expressive/receptive color recognition, identify numbers and counting using 1:1 correspondence, and vocabulary and letter practice.
Items like the mailbox, light box, community garages, magna cars/trucks, arch blocks, and the waffle and gear builders allows for imaginative play. Fostering imaginative play increases opportunities to participate in cooperative play skills (e.g. sharing, initiating and responding to peers, turn taking, etc.). The games in my order (Monkeying Around and Pizza Topple) not only work on reciprocal play skills, but also fine motor skills.
The story telling sets and the easel will allow myself and the other preschool teachers to bring to life our lesson plans we already have set out. These items will help us teach the value of reading and writing while fostering the creative skills in each child.
In preschool, it is very important to be able to rotate materials to keep learning fun and engaging. Having materials to match our monthly themes (e.g. growing/sequencing, Dr. Seuss, transportation, zoo/safari, etc.) will help connect our lesson plans to play. In addition, access to these items will help teach basic preschool skills; ABCs, counting, colors, etc. in fun imaginative way!
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