It was a very active week:
- We played a lot of games and songs that covered most of these areas like 'Head, Shoulder, Knees & Toes', 'Simon Says', 'If you're happy and you know it', 'Hokey Pokey' and simple games that allowed her to easily follow my actions.
- YouTube was one of the places I got some great action and movement songs. Some simple ones I fell in love with and subscribed to are:
i. Patty Shukla: Jump here
I can do it here
Play with me, Sing along here
If you like what you see you can always check out other videos from her here.
ii. Debbie Doo: Movement Song (Hokey Pokey) here
Movement Song (The Twist) here
1. We also made drums and shakers out of empty cans, wrapped them with construction paper and decorate them. Jumbo paintbrushes were transformed into drum sticks.
2. Sensory Mat: I looked for different textured materials around the house and put them together on a construction paper.
3. Sensory Bag: In a bag we combined rice, dried peas, and different shape pastas.
4. Hot & Cold: Well it wasn't really hot but warm enough for her to touch while differentiating temperature. I had for cold, iced water & ice. For hot (warm), we had warm water & a warm iron (instead of letting her touch the iron directly, I ironed a cloth and G felt the warmth of the cloth). Throughout the week we identified other cold & hot items; like a stone that has been in the sun, the day, her tea, hot chocolate, her meals, her juice, ice cream, etc.
5. Finger paint:
We wrapped up the week with water play, walked in the park, visited the garden and zoo where we used all our senses for looking and listening to birds and other animals' sounds, smelling flowers, feeling the grass against our toes (although my daughter isn't too big on this), she did couple runs and skips, and we had tasty treats.
We also finished our 5 Senses board *will update with a picture soon.
We also read this week:
1. 'Elmo Can...Taste! Touch! Smell! See! Hear!'. You can take a look inside here
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