Mrs. Schuit's Early Childhood Special Education

Good morning today we are going to practice drawing MAT MAN and our families. It is also a good time to work on body parts.

• Play with Mr. Potato Head and practice naming body parts.
• You can cut out parts to go alone with the MAT MAN song.

Don’t forget you can draw a picture of your family and have Mom or Dad write down the names of everyone you drew.

Schuit’s classroom hangout Friday, April 24⋅1:00 – 2:00 P.M.

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Please join Ms. Aflah and Ms. Shonte on Friday. We would love to see everyone.

All you have to do is call the phone number above and add the pin number when asked. If you want me to send you the MEET app for your phone let me know.

Please bring the spider you are going to make for Friday’s activity or your favorite stuffed animal.

We miss everyone and can’t wait to see you.

This is not mandatory just a fun get together!!!!

Today we are going to work on colors and shapes!

Other activities for colors and shapes:

• Spell out the color words (it is a great way to practice printing letters). It also works on spacing the letters correctly to spell words.
• Make a picture using shapes – House, car, truck etc. I drew a house but can’t get it to send.

How to add Google Translate to your Chrome. كيفية إضافة ترجمة جوجل إلى كروم الخاص بك.

This only works in the Google Chrome web browser. /يعمل هذا فقط في متصفح الويب Google Chrome.

1. Go to this website/ انتقل إلى هذا الموقع https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-translate/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb/RK%3D2/RS%3DBBFW_pnWkPY0xPMYsAZI5xOgQEE-
2. Click on/ انقر فوق “add to chrome“
3. Right-click on the extension’s icon and select “Options“./انقر بزر الماوس الأيمن على رمز الملحق وحدد “خيارات”.
4. Click on the “My primary language” box and select your language from the drop down list. /انقر على مربع “لغتي الأساسية” واختر لغتك من القائمة المنسدلة.
5. Choose / أختر “Arabic“
6. Choose / أختر “immediately display popup“
7. “Save” in the bottom right/ في أسفل اليمين
8. Click and drag mouse to highlight words. The translation should appear. / انقر واسحب الماوس لتمييز الكلمات. يجب أن تظهر الترجمة.

https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/translation/

Here is Tuesday’ Math HOMEwork! Please send me pictures or video of any completed work. Thank You! I will continue to call families today about the Contingency Plans.

8 IS GREAT!

Don’t forget to count as high as you can! Let me know how it goes.

This week we are going to read The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle and complete some fun activities. Remember any activities your child completes please send me a video or pictures so I can document that he or she is completing the work. The contingency plans start today and I will be calling each family to explain the plan and review your child’s classroom goals.

Please pick one activity to complete:

• Draw a picture of your favorite farm animal from the book. Put your name on the top of the paper. Tell Mom or whoever is helping you about your picture. Have them write down what you drew a picture of. Here is Mrs. Schuit’s picture:

• Look around your house for farm animal toys you may have.
• Name the farm animals, count the farm animals or make a barn for them to live in.
• Name the colors of the animals
• Make the animal sounds – What does a pig say? OINK< OINK <OINK
• Take your animals outside to play on this beautiful day!

Sorry this is late I am having computer/internet problems today 🙁

Starting this week things will be changing a little on the blog. We have what is called a contingency plan that Dearborn schools is putting in place. Since each student has their own IEP (Individual Education Plan) we are not fully able to implement the IEP due to the fact that we are virtually teaching. It is still important to work on the students goals so that is what we (OT, SPEECH and SOCIAL WORK) will be focusing on. I will continue to post a daily activity.

Today Ms. Margaret the Occupational Therapist has asked me to post an activity for you do work on at home.

Week 1 OT

“Movement is key to learning. Movement and dance activities such as crawling, creeping, rolling, turning, walking, skipping, reaching and swinging are essential for a toddler and a young child’s brain development.” These activities help strengthen muscles, nerves, brain cells, speech centers and vision, so your child can use their hands, eyes and body more efficiently to eat, play, draw, write and read. 

1. Choose 5-10 minutes of these motor exercises:
   • Crawling under, over and around furniture or through a tunnel if you have one 
   • Crashing into a mound of pillows and being playful with your child after they land. You can include language like “Ready, Set, Go” “One, Two, Three,” or singing traditional nursery rhymes “Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall…” 
   • Laying on belly and going for blanket rides
   • Building a mini obstacle course with chairs, jumping on stickers, pretending to be an animal (hopping like frog, crawling like a bear, wiggling like a worm, moving slow like a turtle on hands and knees, etc)

2. Massage your child’s head, arms and hands using deep pressure to wake up sensation and muscles of the upper body before practicing one of these fine motor activities.

3. Choose 5-10 minutes of these fine motor exercises: 
   • Putting coins into a piggy bank (make one with an old plastic container if you don’t have one)
   • Cutting play doh (supervised of course), rolling it out like a long snake, pinching it, rolling it into small balls. If you do not have play doh or putty, there are so many easy to make home made dough. I will share a recipe if you need one!
   • Practicing putting on or taking off shoes, wiping face, brushing teeth, opening food packages, practicing hand washing or any self care activity they are not able to do on their own. 
   • Drawing shapes, letters or writing sight words or making marks with glue/glitter/sand/markers/crayons/chalk on sidewalk/
   • Use clothespins to pick up cotton balls