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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Worksheets can be FUN!

Worksheets! Sounds boring? Not really!

I would like to introduce some fun worksheets.  A few weeks ago, one of my OT colleagues introduced this website, "Inner Pieces Gallery."  You can find many free printable worksheets and a list of suggested children's books.  

Before my kids begin a worksheet, we read the instructions together. Then I ask them to do it without further explanation.  If they follow through the instructions without difficulty, that's great!  If not, here is how I break it down to make things a little easier.  

The following worksheet is one of the visual tracking activities.  You have to circle the round shape smiley faces on each line without picking up your pencil in the middle.  This can be a pre-writing activity as well.  

Here I make a dot in the beginning of each line to tell my kids where they should start and demonstrate how they should follow through without lifting their pencil.

Then kids will try to draw circles around the round shape smiley faces on each line.
This step is not part of the worksheet but I add in to it just to challenge their visual skills and task attention.

I ask kids to stamp the dot on the empty circle on each line.
They will count the round shape smiley faces that they circled on each line.  They have to remember that they do not count the colored ones.     

The second part of this activity sheet is solving a puzzle.  The number from each line has a corresponding letter.  So kids will find out a phrase by solving the puzzle.  


Go on the "Inner Pieces Gallery" and sign up to get free printable worksheets.  The worksheets on the Inner Pieces Gallery are FUN!!

Are you ready to have fun with your kid? Enjoy~! 

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