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January, 2018

Seeking Clues: Line, Color, Texture

January 27, 2018 by Cynthia Herbert

LINE Bending Lines Provide a container of long pipe cleaners, black if possible, and large and small balls of modeling material. Demonstrate how to stick the pipe cleaner into a ball to make it stand up vertically. Ask the children to create different kinds of interesting lines. Interpretation: A child with a strength in this area will create different kinds of interesting lines. He may stick them all in one large ball or in separate Read More →

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Seeking Clues: Movement, Sound, Rhythm

January 20, 2018 by Cynthia Herbert

Continuing the quest for clues about each child’s creative strengths, I present these activities for three more elements of the Sensory Alphabet. MOVEMENT  Statues Demonstrate turning around once and posing like a statue. Encourage children to make their own unique poses. Videotape several children doing so at the same time. Interpretation: A child strong in body movement will show control in turning around and will create an interesting pose. Others: May not follow directions in Read More →

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Seeking Clues: Light and Movement

January 14, 2018 by Cynthia Herbert

Here are more activities, using the elements of the Sensory Alphabet, that provide clues as to individual children’s strengths. Remember the idea is to provide open-ended experiences that allow diverse responses. LIGHT CLUES  Day or Night Cover the tables with plastic. Ask the children to draw and collage to make a picture of night or day. With the markers and general materials, add aluminum foil, glitter glue, gold, silver stickers, black paper and chalk and Read More →

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Seeking Clues: Space

January 9, 2018 by Cynthia Herbert

All activities in New World Kids are designed to be open-ended and therefore elicit diverse results. The following activities are especially designed to help reveal clues as to the unique non-verbal strengths in each child’s thinking, using the qualities of the Sensory Alphabet as lenses. The teacher presents the children with specific media and a specific assignment. The teacher looks at the results for clues as to how each child thinks and learns best. For Read More →

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Teacher Strengths

January 1, 2018 by Cynthia Herbert

  A new year is a good time to reflect on yourself and your own strengths as a thinker and learner. Only think of your strengths. Don’t worry about your deficits. Don’t worry about how many strengths you have. This is a good blog to print out so you can circle items that are true for you. Or you can save it as a document and highlight favorite items. Use these strengths to enhance your Read More →

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