Learning Through Everyday Activities

Below are fun activities to engage in life skills throughout the day. Choose the option that best fits your child on any given day. Repeat activities from the current and previous flyers and remember to try other activities (any grade) to offer variety and challenge. Use your communication (word, drawing, gesture, device) and be ready to share with your teacher.

Keep it Fun: Build in Rewards

Motivation is key to learning. Sometimes activities themselves can be motivating. Sometimes we need a little more motivation. Here are some ways to provide extra motivation to complete activities. Choose the option that works best.

Reward System

See the example of a reward system. For every completed activity or behaviour you are working on, check one of the squares (or place a ‘token’). 5 checkmarks = a reward!

First/Then, ‘To Do’ card and Tic Tac Toe (from May 6th flyer) are also examples of ways to motivate and reward.

Chores (Daily Living Skills)

Dish Duty

● Sort the knives, spoons and forks into the drawer.

● Stack the measuring cups to save room.

● After the dishes are dry, help put them away.

More Laundry - Sock it to ya!

● Do the socks match? Yes or no? Match them.

● Fold socks and put away.

● Collect unmatched socks. How many matches can you make? Save the odd ones for Sock Puppets.

● Where do all those unmatched socks come from? Discuss or write your own story.

Let’s Make: Salt Dough

● Follow the recipe to make salt dough. If it doesn’t turn out, consider it playdough/slime!

What you need:

1 cup flour, 1/2 cup salt, 1/2 cup water

Bowl, spoon, measuring cups

Steps:

1. Measure ingredients

2. Add ingredients to bowl

3. Stir with spoon

4. Knead with hands

Optional: add in fun things (washable paint, sparkles, buttons). Store in a plastic bag or container. Knead it to relieve stress. Roll it, shape it for fun. Leave it out to dry to keep its shape. Add it to your time capsule. Do NOT eat!

Fun & Leisure

Sock Puppets

● Choose an unmatched sock. Put the sock on your hand. With your other hand, push the sock in between your fingers and thumb to make the mouth.

● Make a face for your puppet by drawing or attaching materials (e.g. markers, buttons, pompoms, coins, ribbons, dry noodles).

● Play with a puppet - be creative and have fun! Keep it in your time capsule.

Simon Says

● Ask someone to play ‘Simon Says’. Decide who will be Simon.

● Play Simon Says (e.g. "Simon says touch your elbow.").

● Add extra steps for players to follow (e.g. “before you clap your hands, touch your ankle”).

Literacy

Time Capsule

School started at home on March 23, 2020. A time capsule (from previous flyer) is a way to remember. The following items can be added to your time capsule:

● Write/copy this date on a card.

● Find something recent with a date on it (e.g. a newspaper, a flyer, a photo, a drawing).

● Make a list of things you are doing with your family.

● Keep a journal. Under each date, write or draw something you did that day.

Create a Help Card

● Continue to practice saying or writing your phone number.

● Write or have someone help you write your name and phone number on a pocket sized piece of paper (your ‘help card’).

● What is the phone number of a trusted adult? Practice calling this person. Add this number to your ‘help card’.

Keep your ‘help card’ safe. We will use this again.

Daily Window Conversation

● Be a ‘weather watcher’. Look out the window a few times a day. Share what you see.

● Record and share the changes you see outside your window (e.g. photo, draw, write).

● Play “I Spy”. Include colors, shapes, sizes, numbers (e.g. ‘I spy something small and red’ or ‘I spy something that starts with the ‘mmm’ sound’).

Math

Grocery Flyers

● Point to the grocery item you like.

● Count grocery items per page or category (e.g. fruit, meats).

● Create a grocery list with prices, or cut and paste items from the flyer.

Find items that are in more than one flyer. Compare prices that are greater or less.

Money Sort: Coins

● Use coins (from home/flyer, or make your own) to match and/or sort coins.

● Tell someone the value (amount) of each coin.

● Add coins together to represent different money values.

● Create a list of snacks that cost less than a dollar. Practice buying the snacks at

home.

Telling Time

● Make pictures of morning and night. Cut from flyer or make your own.

Saltwire: See image of sun/moon (cut image if activity is taken out)

● Match morning/night pictures with morning/night activities (e.g. breakfast, sleep)

● Tell someone the time. Read the hours and/or minutes.

● Make a schedule with times of your favorite activities (e.g. meals, tv shows, family activities).

LEARNING IN FRENCH

The learning opportunities that are presented here are both in English and

French. All students are encouraged to complete the activities in their language

of instruction. Teachers can be contacted for further support and suggestions.

Additionally, there are many ways students can reinforce cultural identity and

continue to develop French language at home. Some examples include: singing

songs they’ve learned in school, watching Netflix, tv, movies or YouTube (with

French closed captions if desired), listening to music, the radio or podcasts, as

well as having conversations with others at home or phone calls with classmates.