Table Time
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
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
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
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 poseSee 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
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
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?
