On a normal Friday at school we practice our fine motor skills.  Today, let’s focus on crossing midline. 

Crossing midline is when we move our arms or legs across the middle of our body to complete a task.  Crossing midline is important in developing the ability to use both sides of the body at the same time.  Some tasks that require this include putting on shoes, catching a ball, writing, cutting, etc.

Here are some ways to work on this with your child:

Let’s Read!

https://youtu.be/KBDTPHZO-xo

Our letter of the week is M!
M is for Mohamed! 😍

Letter M activities:

• Encourage your child to try to make the letter M sound
• Find things around the house that start with the letter M
• Write the letter M with a highlighter and then have your child trace over it with different colors.

The students love the Starfall letter activities:
https://www.starfall.com/h/abcs/letter-m/?

Here are some fun letter M videos:

Last week I spoke with our adaptive gym teacher, Ms. B.  She asked me to tell all of you how much she misses you!  

Check out her blog for movement ideas: https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/budopw/

*Parent please note that Ms. B teaches students of different ages and abilities so only choose the activities that are most appropriate for your child*

Here are some ideas to get your child moving today:

• Place pillows on the floor and have your child step on them one at a time
• If your child is not walking yet place pillows in different areas of the room and have them crawl from one pillow to the next
• Practice rolling a ball back and fourth to each other 
• Create tunnels out of couch cushions or coffee tables and blankets and have your child crawl through 
• If your child is not walking yet place a desired item out of reach to encourage them to tall knee 

On a normal Friday at school we practice our fine motor skills.  

Here are some ideas you can try at home today to help your child practice their skills:

• Color with crayons
• Make shapes with tape and then trace each shape with small objects such as blocks, coins, or pasta
• Build with blocks
• Scoop cereal with a spoon and transfer it between two bowls
• Open and close bottles – preferably empty so there’s no mess 🙂 

Thank you Snow PTA for making this for our teachers! <3

Here are some ideas for how to work on speech while playing with your child.

When playing with blocks, puzzles, ball, bubbles, etc.:

• Work on taking turns/joint attention
• Label the toy – type, color, size
• Withhold the toy until your child requests it through sign/gesture/word
• Use core vocabulary when playing: up, down, in, out, on, off, more

When playing with toy cars:

• Make car noises “beep beep, vroom, crash”
• Make your cars STOP and GO.  At school the children like when we do a 1, 2, 3 count before ex: “1, 2, 3…Go!”
• Say “uh oh” or “oh no” and make the cars crash into something

Our letter of the week is F!

Letter F activities:

• Encourage your child to try to make the letter F sound
• Find things around the house that start with the letter F
• Write the letter F with a highlighter and then have your child trace over it with different colors.

The students love the Starfall letter activities:
https://www.starfall.com/h/abcs/letter-f/?

Here are some fun letter F videos: