Table Time Activity: Song – What’s Your Favorite?
Skill Check
This activity focuses on answering “WH” questions and recalling information.
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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
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.
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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
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.
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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
Skill Check
The goal of this week is to pick your favorite animals and work on their yoga poses!
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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
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to identify foods that make us feel happy and foods that make us feel nervous.
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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
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!
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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?