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Table Time

Activity: Rice writing

Materials:

Rice

Tray or baking dish

Heart Letter Puzzles Worksheet

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is literacy awareness and tactile exploration.

Growing My Skills

To grow skills, work on writing out the letters in the rice.

Floortime Play

Activity: Heart scavenger hunt

Materials:

Using the same hearts from table time, hide one half of the heart around the room & go on a scavenger hunt to find the missing half.

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is engagement, matching, and color awareness.

Growing My Skills

Upgrade: Have your child find a certain letter hiding around the room.

Relaxation Time

Activity: Friendship/partner yoga!

Materials:

Kid-Friendly Partner Yoga Poses

Blue Bird Day and Yoga

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to help your child focus on engagement, following directions, and building core strength.

Growing My Skills

Talk about how each yoga pose makes your body feel. Try adding in mediation in small time increments – see if you can get up to 1 or 2 minutes!

Creative Time

Activity: Make Valentines Cards for Friends and Family

Materials:

Glue

Scissors

Colored construction paper

Glitter

Stickers

Blue Bird Day and painting

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to help your child follow directions and build their creative and fine motor skills.

Growing My Skills

1) Cut construction paper out into heart shape.

2) Write out happy valentines day, to:, and from:,

3) Decorate heart.

Movement Time

Activity: Partner Yoga

Materials:

Video of yoga poses to complete with a partner

Yoga mat

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to focus on working together and supporting each other while building strength!

Growing My Skills

Follow along with the video, or look up “partner yoga poses for kids” on google images for more ideas!

Help your child assume each pose with a sibling, friend, or yourself!

Mealtime

Activity: “Food friends” or food pairing

Materials:

Samples of food found in the fridge or pantry. Find foods that are “friends” or that go well together, and foods that do not pair together. Have your child find foods that could be friends by asking “which ones do you think could be friends? Could apples and chicken be friends?”

Blue Bird Day and mealtime

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to encourage taste exploration and find foods that go well together.

Growing My Skills

Wash hands and find 1 – 2 tablespoon sized samples of 5 – 6 foods. Put them on the table for exploration.

Have your child sample foods together or separately and ask which foods could be “friends. Which could be yummy together?” For example: 1) Apples and peanut butter 2) Bananas and peanut butter 3) Tortillas and cheese 4) Crackers and cheese 5) egg and cheese.

TIP: Mix and match the foods in front of you. Suggest a pair that definitely would not go well together.

Language Time

Activity: Rainbow Fish

Read this classic children’s book by Marcus Pfister, and practice being a good friend by sharing special stickers with others! After reading, take turns being the rainbow fish who has the sticker page. Take turns asking for stickers of the rainbow fish, and sharing them with others.

Materials:

The Rainbow Fish By Marcus Pfister book or audio

Stickers

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to practice and improve your child’s pragmatic language skills including sharing, turn taking, and requesting.

Expanding Skills

Work on utilizing appropriate pragmatic language skills to request the stickers from the rainbow fish.

Expand descriptive expressive language by describing the specific sticker wanted by color, size, shape, etc.

Expand this play to include other family members.

Work on prepositional concepts by describing where to put the sticker (e.g., put the blue sticker on top of my hand).

WEST LOOP LOCATION

1233 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60607

WHEATON LOCATION – Now Open!

140 E Loop Rd, Wheaton, IL 60189

NORTHCENTER LOCATION

1921 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613

CONTACT INFORMATION

West Loop: 312-241-1204, Wheaton: 630-243-5850, Northcenter: 312-241-1789

info@bbdprogram.com

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