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Have a great summer! See you back in school on Wednesday, September 1st 2021!
2021 WPS Summer Learning
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Student Services
English Learners
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Elementary
Middle School
High School
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Suggestions from Occupational Therapists
Warm-Ups
Start your Fine Motor time with some warm-up activities
Playdough (rolling, squeezing pinching)
Putty
Using tweezers to pick up small objects
Fine Motor
Opening and closing twist top containers, ziplock bags
Wind up toys
Finding small items hidden in putty
Snap tubes
Jewelry making (Rainbow loom)
Placing beads or cheerios on pipe cleaners held in place with playdough
Cooking activities with adult supervision, i.e measuring, pouring, stirring, kneading dough etc.
Games with small pieces to manipulate, i.e. travel size Connect 4, Battleship, Operation, etc.
Perler beads
Ripping tape to put together a cardboard box fort
Keyboarding
Grades 3-5 Keyboarding without Tears
Visual-Motor
Step-by-Step drawing activities (follow steps on Art for Kids Hub channel on Youtube)
Draw a person
Simple art projects (color, cut and glue)
Tic-tac-toe
Hangman
Puzzles (insert vs. interlocking)
Mazes
Dot-to-dots
Circling or coloring in hidden objects found in busy pictures
Sensory
Self-regulation activities (zone check, deep breathes, six side of breathing, hand dots)
Outside activities (swings, climbing structures, tires swings, running games, bike riding)
Indoor activities (putty, snap tubes, playdough, bean bin, rice or drie pasta bin)
cooking/baking with adult supervision; i.e. stirring, cookie cutters, kneading dough
Cutting
Cutting strips of paper
Cutting of simple shapes
Cutting scraps of paper
Cutting tape
Cutting playdough worms
Writing
Practice writing individual letters (letters in groups F,E; D,P,R,N,M; c, o, a, d, etc.
Practice Writing numbers (send home or provide link for Fundations Paper)
Tracing different kinds of lines (vertical, horizontal, circles, diagonal)
Journal writing
Lists, thank you notes
Salt tray
Online Prewriting and Writing Apps
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