It’s Friday! You have almost made it through another stay-at-home week. We hope there have been some moments of joy in your week. Here are a few invitations for today.
Sensory Invitation: Use your hands to paint!
This is a high-mess activity. Be prepared with old clothes and damp rags. Children can paint on paper, cardboard, or on a tray or other washable hard surface.
Possible Dialogue:
How does the paint feel?
Is it easy to paint with your hands?
What parts of your hands can you paint with? (finger tips, palm, fist, etc.)
Intent: Allowing middlers to paint in non-conventional ways. Exploring touch and feeling of items we don’t normally interact with on a daily basis.
Fine Motor Invitation: Painting – use paintbrushes, fingers, sponges, etc. to draw shapes, people, the three little pigs, (anything you want.)
Intent: Encouraging the middlers to use various methods of painting to enhance fine motor development.
Music/Movement Invitation: Singing and doing the movements for “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”
Here are the lyrics in Spanish as well.
“Cabeza, hombros, rodillas y pies
Rodillas y pies
Cabeza, hombros, rodillas y pies
Rodillas y pies.
Ojos, y orejas, y boca, y nariz.
Cabeza, hombros, rodillas y pies
Rodillas y pies.”
Intent: The children in this age group that we know LOVE singing all throughout the day. Singing is wonderful for language development, creative expression, and singing together builds connection.
Outdoor/Nature/Gross Motor Invitation: Go on a walk in your yard, neighborhood, or around the house. Walk, run, skip, jump. What can your body do? If you slow down and look closely, what can you find?
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, and practice looking closely and carefully at the world around them.
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