Table Time
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
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
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
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?”
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).
