Don’t forget to check your email to join us for our last google hangout this school year tomorrow at 1:30. Can’t wait to see you!

Hi friends! Grab your core boards and work packets and let’s do some learning about our core words “you” and “purple.”

END OF THE YEAR TALENT SHOW – Share a 10 to 60 second video of a talent or you participating in physical activity and share it through email with me and our gym teacher, Mr. Borg (borgj@dearbornschools.org) so we can post it to our blogs for everyone at school to see!

Check out Ms. Harden’s music lesson for the week with the link below!

HOWE CENTER-BASED SPECIAL EDUCATION MUSIC LESSON #7 JUNE 1-5

Hi friends, happy first day of June! Let’s start the day by discussing the date together and our new core vocabulary words of the week “you” and “purple.” Take a look at your activities for this week below and check out Ms. Dawn’a video using our new word “you.” Have a great day!

Hi friends! Happy Friday! Grab your work packets and let’s do some learning together! I hope you have a great weekend!

“I” like to listen to music!

• I Like – I Do Not Like by Speech and Language Songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJvZq5CzAUo
• The I Spy Song by KidsTV123https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwyv-4sOsrc
• Sesame Street: Will.i.am Sings “What I Am” song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyVzjoj96vs
• I Spy Song by the Learning Station https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgH7gXfchGw
• What do you do everyday? by Maple Leaf Learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYZ0PCVd6wk

“I” like to listen to stories!

• From Head to Toe by Eric Carle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjum-5bNmz0
• I Went Walking by Sue Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW1ZT1l-hM4
• Can I Play Too? by Mo Willems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PDVFEySk4c
• Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? by Eric Carle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RpxDvo6hZ8&t=6s
• Pete the Cat – I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Lp9SHN4-M

Visual schedules help students develop routines and a sense of control over their daily activities. Visual schedules also provide visual cues for sequencing the steps of activities. The following link shows examples of visual schedules for a morning self care routine, morning school at home routine, as well as a blank schedule so you can make your own checklist based on your family’s routines. Visual cues include words for students who are able to read, and/or pictures for those who benefit from pictures to comprehend. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TS8gZ3ykXDBLWAv8aybLJhyFtXwSCIlm2rJcFjXNRbA/edit

Hi friends! I’m having difficulty uploading my videos today unfortunately but would like you to work on a similar activity as we did last Tuesday. Today work on sorting objects that are black. Use your core vocabulary board when working with your families to say “yes” an item is black or “no” it is not. After you have sorted all your items be sure to count and find out which group has “more” items and which has “less.” When you have finished sorting and counting, use your core word of the week “I” to tell your families “I want” and pick one or more of the items that were chosen from your homes to play with! Review my video from last Tuesday to see how to work through this activity. I hope to have my videos up and running again tomorrow.

During this month we have been focusing on telling time and using our core vocabulary boards to learn and talk about using “today,” “tomorrow,” and “yesterday.” Ms. Harden wrote a beautiful song to help us to continue learning about this! Check it out below.

Listen to the song below about our core vocabulary color word this week, “black.”

Hi friends! I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend! This week the core vocabulary word we will be focusing on is “I” and the color word is “black.” I will be posting video activities related to these words this week. Take a look at Ms. Dawn’s video below that models how to use the word “I” on her core vocabulary board!

Word of the Week = I

Enjoy listening to the following songs and stories with your child. Here are a few suggestions:

1. Listen to a video all the way through without interruption. Demonstrate for your child how to point to ‘I’ on a core vocabulary communication board each time you hear the word in a song or story.
2. Play the video a second time and continue to point to ‘I’ when you hear it. Pause the video periodically to give your child time to look at or to point to the ‘I’ picture symbol.
3. Try slowing down the video speed to see if it helps your child follow along and respond. There is a settings icon at the bottom of all youtube videos that allows you to adjust the playback speed, try 0.75. You want to find a speed that gives your child more time to mentally process the language but at the same time still makes the video sound fun and engaging.
4. Try listening to at least 1 song and 1 book each day.
5. Have fun! If you’re enjoying the activity, your child will too!

Hi friends. It was so nice seeing some of you yesterday in the google hangout! We are going to keep learning from our work packets and today we are going to be learning about time! Get your core boards ready! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend!

Our OT activity from Ms. Erin for the week is about making adapted book page turners! Click on the link below to find out how!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19qCnIhSfssd1s5hpasPp04s_atSZSOoBQ60zbybaoz8/edit

Continue practicing how to model for your child how to point to MORE on a communication board when listening to the following songs and books as well as listen to Ms. Dawn reading two stories with the word “more.” Enjoy!

• The MORE We Get Together song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQqbQwF5v5Y
• MORE Core Vocabulary song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pAh3wAv7PA
• One Potato, Two Potato song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efMHLkyb7ho
• “MORE, MORE, MORE” said the Baby book by Vera Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L51QywhgLog
• MORE Spaghetti book by Rita Goldman Gelman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRrA2pvqEu8
• Bear Wants MORE book by Karma Wilson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXl0BZpADpo&t=22s

Grab your work packets and core vocabulary boards and lets do some learning together! Don’t forget to check your emails for our google hangout this afternoon!

Good morning friends! I’m excited to begin posting videos that go along with your work packets now that everyone has received them! Grab your core boards and follow along with me for calendar and our core vocabulary word “more” and color “red” activity for this week! Don’t forget to check your emails tomorrow to get the link for the google hangout at 1:00 PM to see Ms. Dawn, Ms. Erin, Ms. Linda, Mrs. Intissar, and me! I can’t wait to see you all tomorrow and I hope you have fun doing your core vocabulary activity at home with your families!

Check out Ms. Harden’s interactive music classroom by clicking on the link below for some fun music activities you can participate in at home!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rkoydNSizQM-CGu_ROaZ9_8Q7YAq3x4mDbCXrzrjHek/present?slide=id.g775e943e40_7_0