Our phonics letter of the week is T.

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

Here are some fun letter T videos:

Letter T activities:
-Encourage your child to try to make the letter T sound
-Find things around the house that start with the letter T
-Write the letter T with a highlighter and then have your child trace over it with different colors

Don’t forget to keep working on your child’s daily living skills!

Daily living skills are important to practice so your child can become independent.  Self help skills also help your child to feel empowered!  We practice many of these at school on a daily basis.  

Try working on one or more of the skills listed below today:

• Dress/undress themselves as much as possible
• Wash hands
• Brush your hair
• Brush your teeth 
• Put clothes away
• Put dishes in sink when finished eating 
• Help sort laundry/put dirty clothes in hamper

In school we are working on sorting objects by color, shape, and size! 

Ways to work on sorting at home:

• Put away silverware
• Sort laundry by type – shirts, socks, pants
• Sort legos by color
• Sort colored cereal or goldfish crackers
• Sort coins by type
• Sort playing cards by color, suit, or number
  
  *you know your child best – pick the activity that is most appropriate for them*

Today’s Google Hangout was so much fun! Thank you everyone who joined! I called my mom right after and burst into tears- as wonderful as it is to see everyone virtually, it breaks my heart because I can’t be with the kids in person. I think about them all all day everyday and I miss them so much. I attached some fun pictures that I snapped today below! Love you, friends!

We will do another Google Hangouts video chat next Friday, April 24 at 3 PM. I can’t wait to see you all!!!

Here is the link for the hangout:
meet.google.com/zbc-ykyp-rve

Also, here is a link to download the ‘Google Meet Grid View’ extension for your Chrome browser. It will allow you to see all of the participants in the group instead of just the speaker.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-meet-grid-view/bjkegbgpfgpikgkfidhcihhiflbjgfic?hl=en-US

I told Duaa that Mohamed asked where she was and she pointed to herself and said, “Me! Duaa!” I found her for you, Mohamed! LOL!

At school we work on basic sign language to encourage our students to start using their voice.  Watch the YouTube videos below to learn how to sign letters and colors. Encourage your child to sign and sing along!

https://youtu.be/WP1blVh1ZQM

***Edited to add: Sorry this is posted so late! I forgot to hit post.***

Boom Cards is a wonderful website for interactive learning! The students really enjoy using Boom Cards.

Below is a link for a interactive counting and number recognition activity.

You may need to enter a pin. If so, just enter kjwr

https://boom.cards/fastplay/kjwr

Have fun! 🙂

Hi families,
I just wanted to remind you how important it is to make sure that your child’s screen time is limited. Below is a chart that gives an idea of how your child can earn screen time. I have also included a list of chores. It is important that your child is working on life skills.

Our phonics letter of the week is A.

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

Here are some videos that we would have watched together at school:

I would love for everyone to join us for a Google Hangouts class meeting on Friday, April 17 at 3 PM! I have e-mailed the link to parents but I will include it on here as well.
http://meet.google.com/tkt-xwfv-fdq