Thriving in School

Want to learn how to keyboard or brush up on your keyboarding skills? Check out this website . The site contains a list of web sites that h...

The previous site also has bingo cards you can customize.

Use your child's interests to engage them in tasks. This site lets you create your own custom chore charts . You choose the theme that...

Are you intrigued by the video you watched on Dr. Temple Grandin? Here is an article she wrote on Thinking in Pictures . It is equally as ...

Why would a leaf on a path cause a cow to stop dead in its tracks? Watch this video on Dr. Temple Grandin titled "The Woman Who Think...

Another hour of light graces us in the evening. The days are getting longer. Exposure to light is known to enhance both alertness and perfo...

Honoring differences is what we strive for as occupational therapists. This starts with understanding. The blog School OT thoughts talks ab...

What you see is what you get...not really! Be sensitive to how we present visual information to our students. Sometimes we don't ...

Never before has it been so easy to produce and share content, whether it is music, video or writing. You can even publish and sell your ow...

Students do a variety of writing in school, by hand and on the computer. Providing experiences with both is beneficial, but don't use a ...

Check out the new resource library located in room 213. We've just added some fun activity folders that work on color, letter recognitio...

Create and share your projects online and access them from anywhere. Have you looked beyond the basic search feature of Google? One useful...

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso It is so easy to be a life long learner this...

Fifteen years ago, the web went world wide. That means the students we work with at Hosmer School are all born AWWW (after world wide web)...

Here is a video my nephew created trying to clean his room. Although it took four days, you can watch the process in 26 seconds. If only i...

Material Spatial Disorganization is a term coined by Dr. Mel Levine from All Kinds Of Minds . It refers to a challenge in organizing our p...

Continuing on with the theme of accessibility, this is a nice strategy for those students who need to "see" the contents of their ...

Please Pop! We tape a sheet of bubble wrap on the wall next to the door of the OT/PT room. This gives students a chance to pop a few bubble...

As occupational therapists working in schools, we have a unique job. Our primary focus is to improve the occupational performance of childr...

One teacher wondered where in her classroom she would fit suitable sensory activities. They don't necessarily need a lot of space. Hav...

Now that we are striving for order, let's be realistic. Piles happen. After all , if a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, t...

Color coding can make filing twice as fast. The eye recognizes color faster than it reads text. (Think about it: traffic signals use red-y...

Mel Levine, M.D. is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is also ...

Do you want to limit distractions while maintaining order on your desktop? Craft a desktop easel. We make ours from copy paper boxes...the...

Do you ever wonder what kids would do if they ran the school? Well, here is one fifth grader's idea: Me as Principal What would I do i...

January is Go Get Organized Month . Getting organized is a lot easier than staying organized. A key element is scheduling time in the da...

There are some students who just cannot contain their bodies sitting in a chair. Their attention suffers as they writhe and wiggle through ...

Although we often use songs to enhance learning tasks, we don't always think of music as a valuable tool for changing the alertness leve...

SNOW! Who isn't excited when the first flakes fall? Let's harness that excitement into a learning activity. Visit SnowCrystals.c...

As an OT, I cannot keep my eyes off of how the world grasps writing utensils. Anyone is suspect to my observations...the local cashier, the...