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Table Time

Activity: Alphabet Boats

Materials:

  1. Alphabet Boats by: Samantha R. Vamos
    1. Read aloud video
    2. Online book
  2. Table Activity
    1. ISpy: Water Worksheet
    2. Boat Ride Tracing Worksheet
    3. Boat Craft
      1. Egg Carton
      2. Paint/markers/crayons
      3. Construction paper
      4. Popsicle sticks
      5. Stickers

Skill Check 

iSpy: Water Worksheet: This activity focuses on visual perception.

Boat Ride Tracing Worksheet: This activity focuses on fine motor skills, visual-spatial skills, pre-writing skills.

Boat Craft: This activity focuses on fine motor skills, shapes identification, creativity.

Growing My Skills

Follow one-step directions.

Follow link to image and print.

Go through each item that you will be searching for.

Find each item and count the amount.

Cross off/dot/or X each item as you count, if needed.

Write correct amount on paper.

Floortime Play

Activity: Float the Boats!

Materials:

Plastic container or bucket

Toy boats

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Skill Check 

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

Growing My Skills

Fill a bucket with water and add in the toy boats

To expand the play, add in sea animal toys or use cups to fill the boats up with water!

Race the boats across the water, take turns with different sea animal toys, or see how much water you can add to the boat before it sinks

Relaxation Time

Activity: Baby Beluga

Materials:

Baby Beluga Video

Skill Check 

Watch a Blue Bird Day Occupational Therapist sing and learn all about an animal found in the ocean: the beluga.

Growing My Skills

Sing and dance along!

After you’ve watched the video, have your child name other animals you’d find in the ocean. Then, make those animal’s sounds!

Creative Time

Activity: Water/Boat Sensory Bin

Materials:

Toy boats

Water

Bubbles (for the water)

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Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to engage and explore familiar things in a new way to build imagination skills!

Growing My Skills

Gather materials

Help your child explore/engage in play with water and boats

Ask your child questions that will help them connect with what they are playing with; where do we see boats at? What can we do with water? (swim, take a bath, drink, etc.)

Movement Time

Activity: Swimming

Materials:

Scooter board or yoga mat

Blue Bird Day and yoga

Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to master your “swim on land” skills, using both arms and legs simultaneously while on your stomach.

Growing My Skills

Lay over a pillow or couch cushion to make swimming just a little harder

Try swimming with your eyes closed

Flip onto your back while on a pillow and try a back-stroke

Swim with only the right side of your body, isolating your movements. Switch to only the left side next

Mealtime

Activity: Food: sink or float

Materials:

Towels

Bucket for water at least 7 inches deep

Fruits and vegetables from the fridge of varying weights. Example:

Float: whole bell peppers, lemon, strawberry

Sink: carrot, kiwi, potato.

OPTIONAL: Whipped cream or cotton balls to line the top of the bucket to make it look like clouds. Blue food coloring for the water in the bucket as the “sky.”

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to explore fruits and vegetables by asking will they sink or float.

Growing My Skills

Gather towels, bucket and materials, fruits, and vegetables

Encourage the child to label the food and to make guesses about whether the food will sink or float

Place each food into the bucket and watch the result

In line with the theme of air travel, pretend the foods are airplanes and let them “land” on the clouds (ex: whipped cream or cotton balls) watch them fall through the clouds or float on top of the clouds

Language Time

Activity: Water Play

Materials:

Water Bucket

Water-safe toys

Water Balloons

Rain Stick Materials:

Paper towel roll

Dry rice

Duct tape

Decorations (stickers, paint, markers)

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Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to work on pragmatic language skills of taking turns, receptive language skills of answering “wh-” questions and expressive language skills of expanding utterances and talking about attributes of common items

Expanding Skills

Fill a bucket, tub or pool with water and place water-safe items inside

During water play discuss which items are “heavy” and “sink” and which are “light” and “float”

Have your child help fill up water balloons – discuss colors and that the water goes inside the balloon to change its size and shape

Take turns tossing water balloons. Label whose turn it is!

Make a rain stick using the materials listed above. Have your child use their words to request specific items that they need/want

Talk about what rain sounds like and play with rain stick

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