Mrs. Sokoloski's Class

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

It’s virtual spirit week at Snow – Today is Thankful Thursday: Who are you thankful for? Bring some positivity and let someone know that you are thankful for them.  Write a letter or draw a picture! – sokoloa@dearbornschools.org

Click the links to read digital books about shapes:

Click the links to read digital books about shapes:

https://tarheelreader.org/2011/03/29/shapes-13/

https://tarheelreader.org/2009/02/24/shapes-around-us/

Ways to work on shapes at home:

• Put together shape puzzles
• Play with a shape sorting box
• Make shapes with popsicle stick or pretzel sticks
• Go on a shape hunt
• Draw or trace shapes on paper

It’s virtual spirit week at Snow – Today is Wellness Wednesday: It’s always good to stay active and healthy.  Share a picture of you eating or doing something healthy! – sokoloa@dearbornschools.org

Check out our OT’s blog: iblog.dearbornschools.org/snowot/ 

Check out our PT’s blog: iblog.dearbornschools.org/kusners/

Our letter of the week is the letter T!

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
• Make the letter T out of tape
• Write the letter T and then have you child trace over it with different colors

Our word of the week is “turn”

To practice this word at home:

• Play a game that encourages your child to take turns.
• Have your child turn around 
• Ask your child to turn the light on or off
• Have your child turn a door knob to open a door
• Turn pages of a book

Click here to read an online book with the word of the week: https://tarheelreader.org/2017/11/30/we-take-turns/

It’s virtual spirit week at Snow – Today is Talent Tuesday: Everyone has something that makes them special.  Show me your special talent! – sokoloa@dearbornschools.org

It’s Monday and you know what the means…Double gym day! Has your child been getting exercise?  

Here are some ideas to get your child moving today:

• Have a parade! March around the house playing instruments – use pots for drums
• Play red light, green light
• Have a race! Mark the starting and stopping points
• Have a dance party!

It’s virtual spirit week at Snow – Today is ‘Marvel’ous Monday: Who is your superhero? Dress up or draw a picture and show me! – sokoloa@dearbornschools.org

Today have your child go on a scavenger hunt for colors!  They can find colored items around the house or outside during a walk.  Help your child sort the items found by color and encourage your child to try to say the color names.   See the photo below for an idea of how to prepare or just start searching! 

Click the link to check out our speech therapist’s blog: https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/gallery/ 

Today, try making homemade play dough with your child.  Check out the video below to see how!  We typically bake once a week at school with our speech therapist and your children love to help!  They have had a lot of practice measuring and adding ingredients to a bowl.  They are also very good at mixing ingredients together.  After you’ve made your play dough, encourage your child to:

• Roll small balls
• Roll long snakes
• Smash a large ball until it is flat
• If you have cookie cutters they can cut shapes out of the dough once its flat

All of these will help strengthen your child’s hand muscles and develop control of their fingers.