by Shannon McCartney | Sep 28, 2018 | *Assessment, *Early Intervention, *Number Talks, *Numeracy, *Technology, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2)
Last week, we talked about screening students to determine their level of kinesthetic development, looking for one-to-one correspondence. The next level we screen for is conservation to a number, where we look to see if a child can use part of what they know about...
by Shannon McCartney | Sep 20, 2018 | *Assessment, *Early Intervention, *Motor Skills (Fine and Gross), *Numeracy, *Parent Connection, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2), Audience - PreK
When those sweet little faces arrive in kindergarten at the beginning of the year, they often don’t come with much background information. Since many of their students haven’t been in any kind of Pre K program, Kindergarten teachers are left wondering about the...
by Shannon McCartney | Sep 14, 2018 | *Math Games, Audience - K-5, Series - Visual Memory
Welcome to the third part of our visual memory series! These fun games and activities can be played as a family or with your students to help them exercise and build their visual memory muscles! (Catch up on the previous posts here!) Visual Memory Tic Tac Toe The...
by Shannon McCartney | Sep 7, 2018 | *Early Intervention, *Math Games, *Parent Connection, Audience - K-5, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2), Audience - PreK, Series - Visual Memory
We live in a “plugged in” culture, where students spend extended periods of time consuming visual images. This severely limits their visual memory or their ability to access and recall images and real-life situations that happened to them. Catch up on Part...
by Shannon McCartney | Aug 31, 2018 | *Intervention Strategies, *Parent Connection, Audience - K-5, Audience - Lower Elementary (K-2), Series - Visual Memory
Kids are bombarded with visual images provided by constant access to devices that display games, movies, YouTube videos, DIY videos and more. Our current generation of students is incredibly plugged in, and some students spend several hours a day on a device....
