Since Kinder Kid is receiving services for Sensory Processing Disorder, we have these cool ocean-themed, laminated cards that describe stretches and exercises you can do to give yourself some good sensory input in order to help keep focused. The whole pretending-to-be-a-sea-creature helps do this in a fun, not forced manner.
Sight words in flashcard style, and a book of short sentences using only sight words, for review.
Standard dominoes. We got these in someone else's trash pile and rescued them from landfill death. Kinder kids uses them to practice simple two-digit addition, and they are also a great visual for teaching the doubles facts up through 6.
Math manipulatives that we picked up for 50 cents at a Mom's sale. This stuff is so cute, but so expensive at the teacher's shops. He doesn't often use these for counting or actual math since his mental math skills are ahead of level. We use them more frequently for Fine Motor activities, like picking them up and sorting them with those blue pincer tweezer things on the left.
Also acquired for change at a Mom's sale. It's somewhat written for older kids, but covers clear instructions on what to do in situations like a fire, someone touching you in a private area, or a lost pet and more. Kinder Kid are our 3rd grader both are involved when we discuss this book.
A very simple 5-item picture schedule. Kinder Kid responds much, much better to visual instruction rather than verbal. At one point, we used a general picture schedule for most of his day. It really helped him learn his morning and evening routines, and now that he has them down pat, we no longer use those. But this small schedule helps him see what is next, and he knows he is working towards a Play Break or being done for the day. It has saved us from many a tantrum!
Okay, confession. I love cute little storage items. These plastic supply cases from Walmart are beyond PERFECT for each kid to store THEIR favorite pencil with it's own special gripper, plus THEIR scissors, gluesticks and one marker and crayon for each color. This way we have no confusion or argument over supplies.
A ruler. Free from our township's Fire Safety night. Keeping it in the work bin means no one has to run upstairs to the desk drawer and get one when we need one.
Can't remember where we got this book from, but I know I didn't purchase it. We generally end of with a bunch of workbook review books for multiple levels each year, and I just go through and pick and choose what we want to use. We usually use about 1/5 of the material, the rest ends up being redundant and we don't waste our homeschoolers time by beating concepts to death if they already get it.
Every year they get one of these "Make Your Own" books from Lakeshore Learning. They can draw and write anything they want, at any point during the year. It's a neat little keepsake to showcase where their skills were at and what they liked that year.
When we get to a concept, sometimes on purpose or most times accidentally, if we don't have a resource at hand, I just make one quick. Kinder kid wanted to sort coins, so I made him this quick sheet to make piles on and to give him a visual. Now that we started money sorting, we'll pull it out once per week or so and work forward.
His therapists at TheraPlay made this Heavy Work options sheet for him.
A random assortment of worksheets that I either pulled out of existing books or found online for free.
Free resource from www.teacherspayteachers.com - Skip counting by 10. Print on cardstock and laminate for mere cents at Lakeshore Learning with a teacher's account.
A cheap and fun resource. Their are regular dice and dice that go up to 12, and all sorts of different activities and games to do with them.
We always have a read aloud book in our work bin.
Another hand me down from someone who didn't use a single page. Score!
Not sure where I got these, but I've had them for several years. We don't use these often, but when a small child starts to consistently form all of their letters correctly, then we start putting them on lined paper and tweaking the location of those p's and g's and y's and such.
No one knows how this got in his bin, but we found it at the bottom and put it on in the background one day. It was pleasant and we then went on to research a little about these famous musicians. Love those homeschool rabbit holes!
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