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Table Time

Activity: Community Helper Bingo

Materials:

Community Helper Bingo Lesson

Blue Bird Day Parent Resources Bingo

Skill Check 

The goal this week is to practice listener responding skills by matching the community helper card to their bingo card.

Growing My Skills

Have the child find the corresponding picture when providing them the occupation title (e.g., Find the Firefighter) or what that community helper does (Who puts out fires?)

Floortime Play

Activity: Build A Community

Materials:

Legos/Blocks

Blue Bird Day and building blocks

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to spend time together in a playful, imaginative way. There should be limited structure and a lot of pretending.

Growing My Skills

Help your child build different towers, buildings, homes, etc

Explore the community and chat about community rules

Relaxation Time

Activity: I AM Meditation

Materials:

Book: I AM Peace By Susan Verde Video Read aloud

Blue Bird Day and meditation

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to practice using positive messages as an everyday relaxation tool.

Growing My Skills

Read the book together

Point at the pictures and emphasize those things that bring you and your child peace

Imitate the child doing different actions in the book

Say the “I am Peace” mantra to your child throughout your day to focus your attention on the here and now

Discuss with your child the different things that bring them peace

Creative Time

Activity: Traffic Light Color Match

Materials:

Red, Yellow, and Green paper

Scissors

Glue

Blue Bird Day and fine motor skills

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is for your child to use fine motor skills and learn about community rules; specifically traffic lights.

Growing My Skills

Cut out 3 circles for your child

Rip colored paper into small pieces

Have them color match the small pieces to the correct stoplight

Discuss what each color means and when we use traffic lights

Play red light green light!

Movement Time

Activity: Ball Play/Parachute with Sheet

Materials:

Any size ball

Bedsheet or blanket

Stuffed animals to ‘fly’ through the air

Blue Bird Day and roll

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to focus on using both arms at the same time to make the parachute fly up and down.

Growing My Skills

Challenge your child by making a wave with the sheet, making your arms go in opposite directions!

Add small balls of stuffed animals into the middle of the sheet to make them “pop”! Try to catch them if they go high enough!

Walk in a circle while playing with the parachute sheet, switch directions!

Make the parachute go high in the air- encourage your child to jump or go up on tiptoes!

Mealtime

Activity: Using a Straw

Materials:

Your child’s favorite foods

Purees

A mirror

Straw

Juice or water

Blue Bird Day and using a straw

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to target the skill of lip rounding, required for drinking from a cup. Lip rounding is the ability to make a circular opening with your lips. This is an early developing skill for feeding. You need to be able to round your lips when it comes time to use a spoon, straw, or cup. When developed, the amount of rounding of your lips can be changed. This makes sure that the lips stay sealed around a feeding utensil (spoon, straw, cup). It also helps get enough pressure for straw drinking.

Growing My Skills

Work on lip rounding skills using your child’s favorite foods.

Purse the lips to make a kiss

Put a puree food on your lips like lipstick/Chapstick

Pucker your lips to kiss the table or mirror

Look at the mark that is left

Choice of puree: Ex. yogurt, nut butter, pudding, applesauce

Try freezing fruit juice on the straw to give it some extra flavor

Dip the straw in your child’s favorite juice and put it in the freezer until solid

Practice drinking from a straw

When beginning straw drinking, you can help teach your child to suck from the straw by using your finger to hold some liquid in the straw and then place it near your child’s mouth

See this website for more information on this method

Language Time

Activity: Zookeeper!

Materials:

Animal Book: “View at the Zoo” or any zoo related book

Zoo Animal Craft

Make a lion mask using orange and yellow construction paper

A paper plate

Scissors

Glue

Blue Bird Day and caterpillar book

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to provide an opportunity for your child to increase use, expand, and improve understanding of language through play.

Growing My Skills

Take turns being Zookeeper and lion

To make the lion mask craft: cut the center of the paper plate out, and glue on strips of orange and yellow construction paper to create the lion mane

Use comments and descriptive language to talk about what lions look like (e.g., color, size, attributes)

You can create situations where the child will have to use executive functioning and problem-solving skills and communicate with you to try to solve the problem (e.g., don’t provide the glue at first… how will we get the paper to stick? It is hard to cut with scissors by It is hard to cut with scissors by yourself… what could you ask?)

Target sequencing skills by laying out all materials and see if your child is able to sequence the steps

Act out being lions after the task is completed

Create a zoo play theme with your child and pretend to be the zookeeper

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