Category: February 2022

At the time I wrote this post Bernalillo County and Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) were seeing an extreme surge in COVID-19 cases. I was especially concerned since the largest spike in cases in 2020 wasn’t reflected in APS’s numbers. This meant that we were seeing more cases of COVID-19 in Albuquerque children than ever; likely …

“Brain Cells” is a game that my aunt, Jeanne Jurgensen, developed and generously gifted to me. Kids can bounce or throw koosh or ping-pong balls into the box, which is divided into “cells.” The word inside the box is the word we then work on by talking about its meaning, making a sentence with it, …

I’m noticing that children who were born shortly before the pandemic are taking longer to warm up to me than the 2-year-olds I’ve seen prior to “these unprecedented times”. So I’m implementing the same rules I use for children who are demonstrating signs of anxiety, such as those with selective mutism: talking is rewarded, but …

I picked up this fun game as a great way to work on articulation. How the game works: The children (or the child and I) each get one of the two bags filled with plastic food. No one can look into their bag. When the first card is flipped over both participants race to find …