Handwriting:
- Letter Sculptures:
- Materials Required: Toothpicks and mini-marshmallows, raisins, soft/gummy candy or styrofoam packing peanuts
- Demonstrate the correct way to form a designated letter on paper or a dry erase board. Have your child practice forming the letter in the air by pointing the index finger of their dominant hand and using whole arm movements (you should verbalize the correct way to form the letter and form the letter in the air simultaneously with them). Next have your child make the letter using the toothpicks and raisins/candy/packing peanuts. They should use pincer grasps to break off a piece of the packing peanut or pickup the candy/raisin then poke toothpicks into the piece/candy/raisin to form the letter.
- Modifications:
- Make the letters with softer or harder items (raisins/candy/packing peanuts) to decrease or increase difficulty level.
- To increase difficulty, have your child make letters to write a word.
Fine Motor:
- Worms and Apples
- Materials needed: collander, pipe cleaners or toothpicks
- Pretend that your collander is an apple and that your pipe cleaners/toothpicks are worms. Push the “worms” through the holes to “eat” the “apple”
Sensorimotor:
- Balloon Volleyball:
- Materials Required - balloon or beach ball and string or yarn. Set up - The string is strung across the middle of the room approximately 2 feet off the ground to form a “volleyball net”. Game - This activity requires two people. Participants should high kneel on opposite sides of the string facing one another approximately 5-7 feet apart. The child with the balloon begins by passing it to their partner by tapping or hitting it with their hand. The partner then passes the balloon back. The goal is to volley the balloon back and forth as many times as possible without catching it or allowing it to hit the ground.
- Modifications:
- A balloon is easier than a volleyball since it moves slower allowing for increased reaction time. If a balloon is too easy, a volleyball can be substituted.
- This activity can also be graded by changing required playing positions. For example, each child could lie on their stomach propped up on their elbows facing one another, sit, sit on their knees or stand. Note if children were allowed to stand the height of the “net” would need to be raised.
- 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.
- Make a Yellow Zone Poster: Use a magazine to cut out pictures of people or animals in the Yellow Zone. You could cut also out Yellow Zone words or emojis. An alternative is to draw pictures or emojis or write words. Another option is to print the pictures, emojis or words from a computer. Glue your pictures, emojis and words to paper to make a poster.