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Boosting Classroom Success: Incorporating Upper Body Strengthening and Gross Motor Movement

As you start back to school think about ways you can incorporate upper body strengthening and gross motor movement into your student’s day. Frequent motor breaks will help improve on-task behavior and increased upper body strength can help improve keyboarding speeds and handwriting & letter legibility. Here are a few ways you can help your students increase upper extremity strength and stability needed for fine motor tasks.

Sweet Success: Ice Cream-Themed Occupational Therapy End of Year Summer or Back to School Activities

Are you busy, have too many students, and lack planning time? If any of those ring true, I can help. I love planning and send weekly emails to my occupational therapy colleagues with ideas for meeting the fine motor, visual perceptual, and social-emotional goals of our OT students. Here are a few fun Summer school ideas with an ice cream theme.

Fostering Emotional Wellness: Strategies for Social-Emotional Learning and Self-Regulation in the Classroom

No matter what part of the year you are in, Summer school, Back to School, or mid-year, most of us are looking for ways to enhance the social-emotional growth of our students. With all the challenges our students face we need ways to teach them about their emotions, that all emotions are ok and we sometimes need to find ways to manage them. Building their understanding of their triggers, and creating a personal inventory of coping skills can be beneficial throughout their life.

Back to School or End of the Year Camping in the Classroom Ideas

Do you need a fun theme idea for your classroom or therapy sessions? A camping party can be a fun end of the year, last day of school, or summer school activity.

Host the Ultimate Pizza Party: Exciting Ideas for Teachers and Occupational Therapists

Do you need a fun theme idea for your classroom or therapy sessions? A Pizza Party can be a fun end of the year or last day of school activity.

Roar into Learning: Exciting Zoo Animal Theme Ideas for Teachers and Occupational Therapists

I have a student that loves pandas. She requested a zoo theme for our upcoming therapy sessions. I decided to put together a few ideas to share.

Engaging Earth Day Crafts: Fine Motor and Occupational Therapy Activities

Do you need Earth Day ideas for your classroom or occupational therapy sessions? When planning for my OT students I work to include options for gross motor, social emotional, fine motor, visual perception, writing/keyboarding, craft and a game.

Boosting Fine Motor Skills: Occupational Therapy Lessons with Drawing and Coloring Activities

If you are looking for a fun way to work on executive function planning skills, consider drawing. Students must picture what the end result of any task will look like before they can plan where to start. This ability is difficult for many children. They need models and assistance to improve the ability to picture what something will look like when it is all done, plan what they need, gather materials, initiate, and work through the task to completion. Whether it be a clean room, a simple craft, a drawing an essay, or a project, they need to start with the end in mind.

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