Good morning! It’s Wednesday and supposed to be rainy again. Here are three invitations from the Lakewood middler teachers for today.
Sensory Invitation: Exploring Smells
Either when you’re cooking or just for fun, invite your child to smell different spices from the cabinet. Be careful not to label any of the smells as good or bad, but instead “big” and “small” smells, “spicy” or “sweet” smells. Maybe some of the smells will tickle your child’s nose, or make them think of foods that usually have that spice in them. You can also have them compare fresh herbs and spices with their dried counterparts.
Intent: This sensory activity explores smells. This smelling activity will help them understand smells in a new way which can help with eating new foods too.
Fine Motor Invitation: Sorting drop box.
Cut slots into a cardboard box and have your child drop paper through them. If you have different color paper you can color code the slots to add a sorting variation.
Intent: This activity incorporates fine motor development by encouraging the middlers to use their hand muscles and pincer grip to pick up and drop the paper in the slots. This could also be used as a mailbox for a dramatic play activity.
Music and Movement Invitation: Sing and dance to “Sleeping Bunnies”
“See the sleeping bunnies,
Sleep ‘til nearly noon,
Let us try to wake them with a cheerful tune,
Up little bunnies and hop, hop, hop,
Up little bunnies and hop, hop, hop,
Up little bunnies and hop, hop, hop”
*You can alternate animals. We have done lions, unicorns, frogs, & elephants*
Intent: This activity encourages big body movements, imagination, and self-regulation.
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