Caregiver Resources

Welcome Caregivers of Special Needs Children!

Zobie's Kids Resource Page is a Gateway. Use these resources to help children learn, grow, and know that

  • Possibilities are endless
  • Kids can travel anywhere with imagination
  • Arts help children learn
  • "Different" doesn't mean "less"

Feel free to adapt these resources to be age-appropriate for the children in your care. Share your uses on social media with #zobieskids. Check back often to see what else we have in store!

Perseverance Pays Poem

Appropriate for Individual and Group Settings.

  • Download and enlarge to create a poster. Glue to cardboard backing.
  • Download, place blank white paper over the 17 lines of the poem, leaving the title and the rainbow artwork visible. Make copies for later use.
  • Announce that you have a special poem to share about perseverance.
  • Ask if anyone knows what it is. Instruct kid(s) to get quiet and listen.
  • Read title and poem aloud. Ask again what is perseverance.
  • Ask if anyone present has ever felt like giving up. When? Why?
  • Ask if anyone has ever shown perseverance. Applause for answers.
  • Distribute copies made earlier and instruct kid(s) to write a poem or paragraph about how they did or would like to show perseverance.
  • Invite volunteers to read their writing aloud. Display their work.
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I’m Flying High with Ambitions!

  • Make copies needed.
  • Introduce activity by announcing that you’d like to fly to the moon!
  • After the laughter at this attention-getter, say, "Well, it's an ambition!"
  • Ask what the word ambition means. Discuss age-appropriately.
  • Announce that you have an activity to fly high with ambition.
  • Distribute and review activity page.
  • Instruct child/children to complete the sentences and color the balloons.
  • Spend extra time talking about "liking being me," to build self-confidence.
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Craft the Learning Process Poster

Download and enlarge to create a poster. Glue to cardboard backing.

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