June Week 1 | Blue Bird Day
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Table Time

Activity: Make a sound Jar

Materials:

Clear mason jars or tupperware containers

Buttons

Cotton balls

Different small items that make various noises

Blue Bird Day At Home Parent Resources

Skill Check 

Experiment with pitch, frequency, loudness and visual differences.

Growing My Skills

Place jars at a safe distance from child (at least 3). Fill jars with 3 different items. Shake each jars and ask questions about what they hear.

What will it sound like? Is it loud or soft? Does it make a sound?

Allow them to explore safe objects from inside the jar if possible.

Ask follow up questions or allow them to tell you their thoughts.

Floortime Play

Activity: Elmo Slide Dance

Materials:

Your body

A dancing buddy

Optional: Add colored scarves, dish towels or bandanas in hand

The Elmo Slide

Skill Check 

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

Growing My Skills

Assist child in carrying out each step of the “Elmo Slide.” Use high affect movement and sound effects to make movements more exciting.

Adding scarves or a small hand towel will allow your child to extend movements and create creative dance moves to the song.

If your child requires motor assistance to complete a dance step, complete dance move sitting or using the prop instead!

Relaxation Time

Activity: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

Materials:

Dance of the Sugar Plum Video

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to utilize calming music as an everyday relaxation tool.

Growing My Skills

Looking at a kid-centric visual interpretation of a classical music rendition will expose your child to a different type of music

Comment on “what the music sounds like” or ask your child to label one aspect they saw within this video.

Creative Time

Activity: Dancing Wands

Materials:

Ribbon or a plastic table cloth

Rings (plastic lid, small paper plate, jelly bracelet, etc.)

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is for your child to use fine motor skills to assemble a dancing ring. They can also work on counting and color identification.

Growing My Skills

1. assemble ribbon in order of your choosing

2. Fold each ribbon in half

3. Loop ribbon around the ring and pull tight

5. Dance!

Movement Time

Activity: Superman Pose

Materials:

Yoga mat or towel

Blue Bird Day and superman pose

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to use our back and neck muscles, which helps develop our strength for activities such as sitting upright while doing table-top work.

Growing My Skills

If your child is having a hard time holding Superman Pose, try having them just lift their arms OR legs off the ground first, rather than doing both at the same time. They can also place a block or books to support their arms up!

If they can hold Superman pose, increase the challenge by having them hold it longer. First 3 seconds, then 5, then 10, etc.

Try popping bubbles with hands while in Superman pose.

Mealtime

Activity: Explore with Food!

Materials:

Apples

Bananas

Apples and bananas video

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to increase your child’s tolerance, exploration, and consumption of different textured fruits.

Growing My Skills

Listen to “Apples and Bananas” song together.

Present each food, whole and in peel, to the child.

Allow your child to explore the food by looking, touching, or smelling while you describe the color, shape, texture of each food.

Prompt your child, or provide full model support, to open the banana and describe the fruit (smell, shape, color, taste).

You may cut the apple into slices and also utilize the same language building ideas of describing the fruit.

As your child demonstrates comfort, you can begin modeling licking/kissing/biting the food, while singing the song.

If your child demonstrates discomfort, that is OK! Exploring by touch or smell is a great way to build upon exploration of new/non-preferred foods.

Language Time

Activity: Alligator Play!

Materials:

There’s an Alligator Under My Bed By Mercer Mayer

Skill Check 

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

Expanding Skills

Read “There’s an Alligator Under My Bed” with your child (Depending on your child’s language skills, adjust the way in which you read the book – read the words, make up your own narrative, use simple words/phrases to describe what you see).

Talk about how alligators move, and imitate utilizing big arm movements as “chomping”.

Allow your child to comment on the pictures, imitate the movement, provide own movement ideas.

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