Here are some questions you can ask your preschooler about our day:
How far can you see in your telescope?
Woah – what happened to the boy in the book today? (this is kind of a trick question)
What did we find in the big church room today? (it wasn’t the treasure chest we were looking for!)
What did you do in your journal today?
Thursday: X MARKS THE SPOT
X MARKS THE SPOT WORK: We took home pirate hats, treasure maps (that you can use with dry erase markers!) and telescopes today. Revisiting our Far away gaze coping skill, we could put words to how far away children were seeing things (if you see that building, you are seeing something 2 blocks away! If you can see the bathroom from here, you are seeing something 20 feet away!).
We followed the map to the big church room but instead of finding treasure there, we found ANOTHER map that led us back downstairs to our Safety Shelter Hallway (this is where we would go in times of severe weather or a lock down situation). Our Alphabet Friend X was easy to see with the shiny tape and marked the spot of our treasure again…this time gold coins and treats!
We worked in our journals today making X shapes…this is a bit trickier than making cross or T shapes so we worked hard!
STORY TIME: We read through What Happened to You? by James Catchpole: A boy named Joe is trying to play pirates at the playground, but he keeps being asked what happened to his leg. Bombarded with questions and silly suggestions, Joe becomes more and more fed up… until the kids finally understand they don’t need to know what happened. And that they’re wasting valuable playtime!
The children are very captivated by this story and our play figure that has a limb difference.
COPING SKILL OF THE WEEK: X marks the spot: When we straighten and then cross our arms over each other, we are crossing midline which strengthens the neural connection between the left and right hemispheres of your brain (aka bilateral integration). We know that the left brain processes things like language and logic while the right brain processes things like emotions and creativity like music and art.
HERE ARE MORE PICTURES OF OUR DAY:
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