We will be posting activities on this page once a week. Additionally, via email we have invited the students on our caseloads to join our OT Google Classroom. If you did not receive this email please contact us. We miss you! Hope to see you in our classroom!
Mrs. Francis and Ms. Pratt
Fine motor:
Mrs. Francis and Ms. Pratt
Fine motor:
- Print and cut out these movement cards. If you are unable to print the cards, you could write them on blank paper and cut them out or write them on index cards.
- Flashlight Letters - Go in a dark room and write a letter on the wall using a flashlight. Have your child guess the letter. If they can’t guess it after 2 or 3 tries, give them the verbal cues for formation while making the letter with the flashlight. Next have them write letters on the wall using the flashlight.
- Don’t Drop the Egg - (Materials Required - spoon and a small ball, such as a ping pong or golf ball, or a plastic Easter egg. Optional - the first page of movement cards from the activity in the fine motor section above.) Have your child hold the end of a spoon with a ball or egg on it and perform different walks without dropping the “egg.” Use the walks from the first page of the movement cards that your child cut out from the activity in the fine motor section for different walk suggestions. Grading:
- Adjust your child’s hand placement on the spoon to make the activity easier or harder. The further away their hand is from the “egg”, the more challenging the task.
- Ideally your child will hold the end of the spoon with their index finger and thumb. If this is too difficult, they may use more fingers to hold the spoon.
- Add or delete different walks to increase or decrease the challenge. If the task is really hard, allow your child to just walk regularly.
- Continue practicing at typing.com or Typing Agent.
- Continue to practice shoe tying, buttoning, and/or zipping.
- Continue to perform the Chore of the Day/Week.
- Continue to identify your zone and use strategies to adjust as needed.
- For this week, focus on identifying characters in movies, TV shows and/or books who are in the Red Zone. Help your child identify why they are in the Red Zone: i.e what they are doing, how they are behaving, how they are feeling or other non-verbal characteristics.