My Favorite Things Week 1 | Blue Bird Day
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Table Time

Activity: Song – What’s Your Favorite?

Materials:

Favorite Songs For Kids YouTube Video

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Resources

Skill Check 

This activity focuses on answering “WH” questions and recalling information

Growing My Skills

Follow the link to song

Begin song and pause after questions to discuss what their response is to each category

Relaxation Time

Activity: My Favorite Thing

Materials:

My Favorite Thing YouTube Video

Blue Bird Day and animal book

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to slow down, focus, and strengthen listening skills. It also allows children to consider what their favorite things are and are not.

Growing My Skills

What does your child like in this story?

Do they agree with the character or disagree?

What are their favorite things?

What do they like about themselves?

Creative Time

Activity: My Favorite Things Collage

Materials:

Paper

Scissors

Glue or Tape

Crayons or Markers

Pages from magazines or newspapers

Photo of your child

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Resources

Skill Check 

This activity encourages your child to think about their preferences and life. It can also help them work on fine motor skills as they practice using scissors, attaching pictures, and arranging them.

Growing My Skills

Gather your materials

Tear out pages with pictures that your child might like

Help your child cut out the specific pictures they like using hand over hand assistance if needed

Using tape or glue have your child put their photo in the center of the page

Help your child arrange and attach the pictures

With your child find a place to hang up their picture where they can see it or add more pictures to it

Movement Time

Activity: Favorite Animal Yoga Poses

Materials:

Kid Yoga Card Deck PDF Download

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Resources

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to pick your favorite animals and work on their yoga poses!

Growing My Skills

Reference yoga deck visual and have your child pick out one favorite animal/pose at a time

First see if they can position themselves into the pose just from looking at the picture. They may need help by you doing it first or you helping their body into the pose
See if they can hold each pose for 5-10 seconds working on strength, balance, stability, and spatial awareness

Mealtime

Activity: My Favorite Foods

Materials:

Pictures of a child’s preferred foods – try to include pictures of fruits, veggies, dairy and, protein food

Glue stick

Scissors

Paper

Markers

Optional: happy and frowny face stickers

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Resources

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to identify foods that make us feel happy and foods that make us feel nervous

Growing My Skills

Prepare the table with glue, scissors, markers, and pictures of foods

Fold a piece of paper in half, designate one half of the paper as “happy/my favorite” and the other as “yucky/not sure.”

You can write a smiley face on one side for “happy/favorite” and a nervous face on the other meaning “yucky/not sure.”

Have child sort the pictures into foods that make them happy and foods they aren’t so sure about

Tip: include a picture of a food they’ve never tried

Have that food in the kitchen that day, they can try it and put the food picture in “happy/my favorite” or “yucky/not sure.”

Language Time

Activity: My Favorites

Materials:

Fingerprint craft

Paper

Pencil

Paint for fingerprints

My favorite things worksheet

All About Me Rainbow Craft

Will need different color construction paper

Scissors

Markers

A white piece of paper

All About Me Rainbow – First Day Of School Activity

Blue Bird Day and kid drawing

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to target expressive and pragmatic language skills, by discussing your favorite things. Talking about your favorite things is also a great topic to discuss with friends & family. Practice answering questions about your favorite things, and asking your friends the same questions back. You might find out you have the same favorite color/food/animal/sport, etc. as one of your friends!

Expanding Skills

Trace your hand, use paint to dab a fingerprint on each finger on your picture. Talk about how our fingerprints are unique

My favorite things worksheet: print out worksheet and color in your favorite color and draw your favorite food

All About Me Rainbow Craft: answer questions about you on a different color paper strip to create a rainbow

Talk about your favorite summer activities. What activities are you looking forward to in the Fall?

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