On two-bag hoops, they have to jump or hop in the hoop twice and say “tiptoe” or “titi” or whatever you want them to. This game is great for beginning the process of thinking about writing sentences later on. When children begin to write sentences, they will be beginning to break the flow of speech into words. For example, I’ll have my statues go through a mini-story about a friend who didn’t want to play with them (mad statues), how they then walked around to cool off (sad), they were worried they lost a friend (scared), and after talking, they became friends again (happy).

Use your imagination to lead your students in a marching band with steady beat moves to some great American Marches.This rhythm pattern activity includes other musical instruments. This is good for teaching instrument identification and learning to use each one to make sounds. Students can learn to make rhythms using a variety of sounds. It’s also a great time to emphasize social skills and discuss how you wait to speak until the other person is finished.) All you need for this is a few pieces of food in a bag. You could use real food, or it could be pretend food. Whichever is fine. Teaching segmenting. This is splitting up words into their sounds. ( For a full guide on what segmenting is, and the best ways to teach it, take a look at this article)

There is so much going on! Multisensory quite simply means, as you can probably guess, that more than one sense is stimulated at the same time.

So, for example, if it was the cucumber, you all go ‘cu (hit)-cum-(hit) -ber (hit)! One (hit)-two (hit)-three (hit)!’ Repeat this two or three times, so they start to understand what is going on. (You are hitting the syllables at the same time as you say them, by the way)