Preschool Power Finger Gymnastics Class - Fine Motor Class

NEW! Preschool Power Finger Gymnastics Class (3 - 5 yrs) - Super fine motor readiness class for beginning learning of stroke development using multi-sensory activities! Students work on grasp development, eye-hand coordination, coloring, scissors skills, fine motor control and strengthening skills. Multi-sensory, gross motor learning of letter formation! 4-5 children/class. Grasp/fine motor labs. Students must be able to focus, attend and benefit in a small group class and allow others to attend as well - we can do a fine motor screening for $40 if a parent has concerns. A fine motor report card will be performed at the beginning/end of this session. A mini-fine motor kit for home will be provided.

8 sessions

$280 no book fee

NEW! Visual Motor Readiness Class (4 - 6 yrs) - This class works on visual motor readiness - a big part of Kindergarten testing! Students will work on drawing shapes, scenes, draw a person, animals, and emotions, while continuing to refine grasp development. Students will begin to learn to draw through a computer guided program called Strokes, Shapes and Scenes (5 minute program), and then will participate in guided multisensory activities. Students will work on coloring labs, to strengthen manipulation of a pencil, and on Retrain the Brain labs to work on sustained fine motor/visual motor control. Common Kindergarten testing items and skills, are for students to learn to draw a person (with a neck, all facial features, etc), draw shapes, and be able to draw pictures to represent ideas, actions and stories. Students must be able to focus, attend and benefit in a small group class. A visual motor report card will be performed at the beginning/end of this session.

$280
plus $10 workbook fee

Sensory-Motor ABC Class (4 - 5 yrs)- Multi-sensory class to actively learn lower case letter formation using multi-sensory activities. This class introduces the concept of lined paper, although the emphasis of this class is correct letter formation and grasp development through fun, exploratory multi-sensory activities. Class continues to work on fine motor readiness for Kindergarten through grasp and fine motor labs. 4-5 children per class Students will work on letter formation through large motor (ex. in our gym on giant handwriting lines), medium motor (ex. with fizzing paint/qtip on 4 inch handwriting lines, and small motor (workbook and handwriting paper). We have a gym where students will work on visual memory and letter recognition skills in fun games. For example, they can write the letters of the day in the air, then jump into our foam pillows from a platform. There is always a zany writing topic, for example, a shaving cream puff monster. Students will then write either the letter of the day or practice writing words about the craft. We have the COOLEST projects.. Parent training at the end of every class, to go over homework and set a home program for working on sequencing of letters.

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Advanced Sensory Motor ABC Lab - The student will work individually on upper case letters, going over several letters a day within stroke groups. This lab will be enhance with a multisensory computer program, that goes over phonics, letter recognition and stroke formation for upper case letters, followed by multi-sensory work on visual memory and handwriting practice, in our gym. The student will also review the lower case letters, and then do a zany writing craft to work on lower case review. Pre-requisite - Sensory Motor ABC Class I

Kids Beginning Print (For kids going into K or 1st) (Emphasizes grasp development, and letter formation within handwriting lines. Teaches lower case print through the First Strokes curriculum and multi-sensory techniques. Grasp and writing lab! Excellent class for beginning writers or kids who need extra help. Block or “Snail Tails” printing. Objectives: Students will write the alphabet from a - z within the handwriting lines, with good spacing, consistency of size and form, and sequencing of letters and no reversals. Students will also develop fine motor readiness skills with correct grasp patterns, and separation of the 2 sides of the hand for manipulative writing skills. This class will also work on writing letters from visual memory within the handwriting lines, without having to copy the letters (this objective is mainly for older students who may be entering First Grade - although the younger students will work on developing this skill).

12 sessions

$395 plus (plus workbook fee of $10.28 for K, $12.95 for 1st graders).

Advanced Kids Beginning Print Lab

Advanced Kids Beginning Print Lab - The student will work individually on upper case letters, going over several letters a day within stroke groups. This lab will be enhance with a multisensory computer program, that goes over phonics, letter recognition and stroke formation for upper case letters, followed by multi-sensory work on visual memory and handwriting practice, in our gym. The student will also review the lower case letters, and then do a zany writing craft to work on lower case review. Pre-requisite - Sensory Motor ABC Class I or Kids Beginning Print

Sensory-Motor Print Class (1 - 2 graders) - Re-teaches print formation with the First Stroke concepts and letter groups, using cool, multi-sensory strategies. Both standard print or “snail tails” style handwriting are taught. This class is for students who have learned print, but have difficulty with sequencing letters, writing within handwriting spaces, or with letter formation. Zany writing topics for writing generalization activities each session!

NUMBER REVERSALS CLASS! (Kindergarten - 2nd grader) We can usually teach kids to not reverse numbers in ONE class! (2 hours, $90 - and the child receives multi-sensory materials to take home. Parent training last 10 minutes of class!)

We can also do this class privately

WHAM Class - Writing, Handwriting and Math Legibility - (PRINT) For older kids - 2nd through 4th, 5th - 7th, and teens. Work on print legibility techniques for sizing of letters on notebook paper, and for handwriting error recognition. Many students 2nd grade and above, develop impulsive handwriting, and have a “need for speed” handwriting to get their schoolwork done. With the need for speed handwriting, many students decrease legibility. Many other students, just do not know the techniques for how to place writing within the lines on regular notebook paper. We use the One Hour to Legibility Program, to teach quick legibility techniques, and add in FUN, multi-sensory learning activities such as writing with exploding paint, to practice techniques. Students will also work on math and numbers legibility, cool writing projects on training notebook paper,
generalization skills to notebook paper and fill in the blank worksheets/assignment logs, etc. Students will do a zany writing topic most sessions, to practice generalization of skills taught within a lesson. Zany writing topics are fun science type activities - students may writing the ingredients down, or a paragraph about what happened. Examples of zany topics might be, shaving cream puff monsters,
alien eyeballs, or flubber slime

8 sessions

$290 plus book fee $16.23

Sensory-Motor Cursive I Class - (2nd - 5th) Beginning or remedial cursive class using simple, easy to remember formation strategies for lower case letters. Class works on visual memory and increasing speed of writing while maintaining legibility. Cool, zany writing topics to generalize cursive into functional handwriting
skills.

Zany Keyboarding Classes (2nd through 5th, 6 - 8th grades) - Multi-sensory keyboarding class using fun, creative techniques to learn home row keys, keyboard and fluency. Students will even practice
keyboarding skills in our motor gym! This class integrates ON-keyboard practice through a typing manual, with creative, multi-sensory typing OFF– keyboard activities. The students even do gym games, type creative art recipes, and hands on keyboard memorization activities.

8 sessions

$285 plus $10.00 manual fee 4 students per class ONLY

Writing Literacy Classes I and II - Each class will explore different skills towards writing. Many of our students
handwriting is so illegible prior to coming to the clinic, that once their handwriting is improved, it is apparent that they still have trouble with grammar, spelling, composition, and punctuation. Using fun themes, our teacher will reteach basic grammar, punctuation, capitalization rules, and help students learn tricks or compensation skills for spelling. Students also learn to write creatively, with longer sentence structure. A FUN way to work towards preparing for TAKS writing! Session I is a pirate theme. Pirates are glamorized in the movies, but what was it like to be a pirate. Write “how to’s” and persuasive essays! Session II is The Hero Within Yourself! Explore qualities about cartoon heroes, heroes in literature, and find the hero within yourself when realizing how fun writing can be. Take Class A or B or both!

SESSION A: PIRATES!!! SESSION B: HEROES!!!

Assistive Technology Tutoring for Written Expression- We provide tutoring for assistive technology software and portable keyboard devices. If you have a poor speller, or a disorder of written expression, tutoring may help children write at their cognitive level, not their spelling level. We use a software program called Write OutLoud which allows students who misspell about 40 out of 100 words, to write a paragraph with only 1 - 2 spelling errors. This program has text to speech, to enhance students abilities to self correct. Students usually only need a session or two to learn techniques

$90 / hour