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Table Time

2 Activities: Singing Hello and Matching People from Around the World

Materials:

Different Ways To Say Hello: YouTube Video

Table Time Around The World PDF Download

Blue Bird Day Parent Resources Bingo

Skill Check 

This week is to focus on strengthening visual perceptual skills by matching children from around the world.

Growing My Skills

Expand on those skills by identifying genders and identifying attributes!

Floortime Play

Activity: Lego buildings around the world

Materials:

Legos

Optional: Lego Structure Visuals

BBD_Parent_Resources_Legos

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

Help your child build tall towers to start, have fun counting and celebrating as they get bigger and bigger

Try modeling building simple bridges with only 3 Legos and see if your child can make one too

If they are interested in building more structures show them the Lego Structure Visuals and work together to build a few

Have fun exploring all of your Lego buildings and bridges, you can even build yourselves an airplane and travel the world together!

Relaxation Time

Activity: I AM Meditation

Materials:

Book: I AM Yoga Video Read Aloud

Blue Bird Day and meditation

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to practice using positive messages as an everyday relaxation tool.

Growing My Skills

Read the book together

Point at the pictures and emphasize the different yoga positions that are familiar to you and your child

Imitate the different yoga poses in the book *use “I am Yoga” mantra to your child throughout your day to focus your attention on the here and now

Discuss with your child the different timers that they can practice yoga in their day

Creative Time

Activity: Continent Match

Materials:

Printable match page

Scissors

Blue Bird Day and painting

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is for your child to build their color and shape identification skills while learning about places around the world.

Growing My Skills

Print out Continent Match pages

Have your child cut out each continent

Match!

You can also check out different videos online with information on what makes each continent unique

Movement Time

Activity: Playground Games with Family

Materials:

Safe area or room to play in- in case we lose our balance!

Blue Bird Day and parent resources movement time

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to take all the skills blue birds have learned over the year and combine them into a full game: Ring Around the Rosie, tag, hide-and-seek, and catch!

Growing My Skills

Switch directions during Ring Around the Rosie

Play Tag outdoors running over grass

Try ‘Freeze Tag’ and tell your child to stand as still as a statue!

Blow up a balloon and see how many hits you can keep it in the air. Use your hands, feet, or even your head!

Practice hitting a thrown ball with a bat. If you don’t have a bat, try using a broom or empty wrapping paper tube!

Play baseball outside using mats or rugs for bases

Mealtime

Activity: Using a Knife

Materials:

Chid sized knife

Spreadable puree (e.g. sun butter, peanut butter, frosting)

Play food

Play doh

Blue Bird Day and mealtime

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to target chopping and spreading with a knife.

Growing My Skills

Play “house” and pretend to cook your child’s favorite meal

Use play-doh to make “food”

Roll the play-doh into a long snake and then practice chopping the play-doh using a plastic/toy knife

Use shaving cream to practice knife spreading skills

Complete this project on a baking sheet to limit the mess

Spread the shaving cream all across the baking sheet using a plastic toy/knife o Practice spreading the shaving cream onto a foam block (model to your child how to hold the block in one hand and spread using the other)

Art Project: Pinecone Bird Feeder

Spread peanut butter onto a pinecone

Cover pinecone with bird seeds

Hang outside using wire or string

MealtimePractice: Knife skills (with adult supervision/assistance)

Ask your child to help you make a fruit salad or veggie salad

Chop all of the ingredients together

Spread peanut butter onto a PB& J sandwich

Spread frosting onto cookies or cupcakes

Language Time

Activity: Build a City!

Materials:

Up, Up, Up By Susan Reed book

Legos (or blocks)

Blue Bird Day and building blocks

Skill Check 

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

Expanding Skills

Read Up, Up, Up with your child (Depending on your child’s language skills, you can read the words from the page or use your own words to provide a simple description of the pages)

Describe how the people and city look different the higher up the balloon goes in the book

Allow for your child to also make comments on the pictures

Create your own city with legos, working together to build the towers

This activity allows for language skill targets like turn-taking, requesting, following directions

Work together to build one tower or build your own and use describing language to talk about yours to model language for your child

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