Mrs. Schuit's Early Childhood Special Education

Guess what today is May 1st! Lets start by singing the Months of the year song.

Lets make some beautiful May flowers today using shapes!

IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY PLEASE SEND ME A PICTURE OR VIDEO OF YOUR CHILD WORKING ON THEIR GOALS FOR THE WEEK.

IT IS GOING TO BE A BEAUTIFUL WEEKEND SO GET OUTSIDE AND GET SOME MUCH NEED SUN AND FRESH AIR. I KNOW I HAVE A LOT OF YARD WORK TO DO!!!

Thursday Speech Activity Videos

Please click the links below to see today’s Speech Activity on Yes and No.

Yes/No Introduction Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mlKls8Fup3nvE97MNrB1KBw7YEorUl10/view?usp=sharing

Yes/No Speech Activity Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10YUn461p7UmlprKtNgQzvR5ZyDzVe6Sq/view?usp=sharing

Today I am posting math and writing to try and meet some students goals.

I went over each students goals but if you have any questions just let me know.

Color and Shapes:

• Sort by color. You could possibly use cereal in your cabinet. Fruit Loops are a perfect example or use toys and sort out red toys, green toys into stacks/piles
• For shapes – Think of what you have in the house tops to cups/containers=circles, cards=rectangles, cut out cardboard or paper triangles.
• Shape puzzles are perfect for sorting and matching.

Writing:

After watching and singing 5 little fruits draw a picture of our favorite fruit and have Mom or Dad help you spell the fruits name.

We need pictures this week class…………………………………………

LOVE THE PICTURES! REMEMBER EACH WEEK I NEED TO SEE PICTURES OR A VIDEO OF YOUR CHILD WORKING ON HIS OR HER GOALS.

THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT. TEAM WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good morning everyone! Today we are going to work on identifying numbers and counting.

There will be another food pantry tomorrow at The Dearborn Recreation and Parks Department from 9:00am-12pm! The address is 15801 Michigan Ave, Dearborn 48126

Week 2 OT

Complete these OT activities throughout the week. The more you do, the more the following skills will improve. Descriptions are included above each exercise. 

1. TUMMY THROW

• To provide touch pressure to body from floor
• To increase back and neck extension strength
• To develop arm strength
• To develop good eye tracking (roll ball)

2. TURTLE CRAWL

• To provide touch input to back from carrying an object
• To increase body awareness
• To develop upper body strength
• To promote motor control by moving fast versus slow

3. BOAT RIDE

• To provide deep-touch pressure to body
• To provide calming head movement
• To promote language skills

Chant: “Rock the boat ‘til we laugh and shout, rock the boat ‘til we all fall out”

TACTILE ACTIVITIES

1. Tactile adventure bins- cornmeal, oatmeal, water, sand, lentils
2. Bath time- bubble bath, crayon soap, back scrub brushes
3. Foam soap or shaving cream- draw, blow
4. Sticky play- tape, contact paper, painters tape
5. Kitchen time- mixing tasting, smelling, washing up

While playing with tactile materials, you can practice drawing shapes, letters, drawing faces, drawing a person, etc with your child. Talk about what you are doing and encourage them to engage in the play with you or with a sibling.
References: Building Bridges Through Sensory Integration. Yack, E, Aquilla P and Sutton S. Future Horizons 2002. 

Today’s activities will focus on letter sounds, alphabet Identification and printing first and last name. If students are not ready to print they can work on tracing letters.

Don’t forget to read a book today!

Today we are going to make a spider by tracing just four of our fingers.

1. Fold a piece of paper in half two times.

2. Trace four fingers only with the folded side facing you.

3. Cut out the hand with four fingers.