Tip – Practice memory skills with your students for spur-of-the-moment fun!.

Play a game by taking turns naming objects in a selected category. Always repeat what has been said and then add your new item. Here is an example of the way it works.

Student – Green cup

Teacher – Green cup, green marker

Student – Green cup, green marker, green chalk

Teacher – Green cup, green marker, green chalk, green paper

Choose great categories. That is your key to this game. Here are some popular ones: green (or any color), round, wooden, hard, soft, big and small. You may think of others.

Insight…

Name up to five items at any one time and then switch to a new category.

*Adapted from Make Your Own Preschool Games: A Personalized Play and Learn Program by Sally Goldberg, pp. 191-192

 

October! The Month of Positive Energy

Help your students brush up on some social skills with these stanzas from

The Magic Words of Manners

 

MEETING PEOPLE

Friends are great, the best there is.

Each one is like a treasure.

Share a friend with someone else.

That’s a special pleasure.

 

To do the introduction,

It starts a standard way.

Specific words are what you’ll need.

This is what you say,

I WOULD LIKE YOU TO MEET MY FRIEND

 

JOHN, THIS IS SARAH

SARAH, THIS IS JOHN

 

When you hear this introduction

With this very special start,

Get ready with your answer.

It’s your own important part.

NICE TO MEET YOU

 

Now it’s time to listen.

You can smile in advance.

Here is what your friend might say

When having a good chance.

NICE TO MEET YOU TOO

 

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