It’s Thursday! Looks like the weather will be slightly warmer today. We hope you can get outside for a little while.
Sensory Invitation: Feel and Find
Use a shoe box (or similar box), cut a hole in the box big enough for your child’s hand to fit inside. Place a soft, smooth, rough, or furry item inside and let your child feel and describe what they feel. Can they guess what’s inside?
Intent: This sensory invitation will use the child’s memory on what different items feel like. Have them pay attention to how each object feels. What specific parts of the item can they recognize to help determine what it is?
Fine Motor Invitation: Draw different shapes on paper and try to cut out the different shapes.
Intent: The middlers LOVE drawing and using scissors in the classroom. This activity incorporates fine motor development by using their hand muscles to move and balance each cup. This activity also includes cognitive development with shape recognition.
Art Invitation: Use the shapes that you cut out and glue to create a collage.
Intent: The middlers have been very interested in using scissors and collaging. This activity encourages creative exploration while incorporating fine motor development.
Outdoor/Nature/Gross Motor Invitation: Blow bubbles. Have your child practice blowing bubbles and then have them chase and pop the bubbles you blow. If you have run out of bubble solution, you can find two recipes in this post.
Intent: Get outside and enjoy the nice weather and beautiful spring scenery. We want to encourage the middlers to use all of their big body muscles to enhance gross motor development.
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