Humpty Dumpty

I am continuing to find really fun and interesting videos for young children on Youtube. This is one of them. Short and sweet.

Hey Diddle Diddle Storyboard

These "flannelboard" items aren't on a flannelboard. It's on a stand covered with a tempo loop type material (the type of material one finds as the liner of their car). Each item has the rough Velcro to adhere to the board. It's on a language type board that is triangular, giving it a base and another side (I probably should have taken more than this picture to share with you - since a picture would be a better description. Children can easily remove it from the board and we can act out the poem. I also ask them for individual items - asking for the cow, or the dish, or cat. They enjoy the interaction with these pictures (These come from a Preschool Mailbox Magazine - I don't have the issue with me! Sorry!).

Hey Diddle Diddle Activity - Hat

Hey Diddle Diddle hats - we used Boardmaker symbols and each symbol represented a sentence. The kids love wearing and creating these hats. It's also a good activity for them to take home and read with their parents. If it comes apart (which is likely to happen with active hands), the hat becomes a poem strip(see below).

The big yellow thing is a Big Mack - it's officially an augmentative communication device which allows you to record your voice for about 20 seconds. This allows enough time to recite the poem on there. The black strip on the Big Mack is Velcro to put a symbol on there to indicate what it is to be used for - however, I don't have the symbol there.

Hey Diddle Diddle

For the first week of school, our nursery rhyme was "Hey Diddle Diddle".

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

I thought I would share with you this video, found on Youtube.

School has begun!

This is the beginning of the school year and I want to attempt to share what sort of things we are learning and working on in our classroom. Our class is comprised of three and four year old children with developmental delays. It is in a public school and is a special education classroom. Presently the classroom has a teacher, speech therapist, two paraprofessionals, and support from an occupational therapist and physical therapist. Let the fun begin!