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There is A LOT on this website - more than you will ever need if working from home!
We begin each day checking in on our Penguin Friends!
Click on our Daily Schedule to see the order of our day
Check out the Week-at-a-Glance slides below. There are 13 pages of suggestions for activities for Literacy, Math, Personal Life Management, Citizenship, and more!!
If work is completed, the reward can be free time
(Students often respond well to "FIRST/THEN"... "FIRST you do 10 minutes of work, THEN you can have TV time." - Some students may need more frequent breaks.)Check out the Links to Learning and Learning Apps for even more!
DAILY SCHEDULE
DAILY SCHEDULE
Click the slideshow below to participate in the routine that we follow each morning,
including songs, calendar, weather, check-in, and breathing.
MINDFULNESS
MINDFULNESS
We often start our mornings with calming music and moving pictures. We also use this occasionally during Nutrition Breaks and Mindfulness Time. Check out the one below or search your own on YouTube!
WEEK-AT-A-GLANCE
For students in ACE programs like ours, IEP goals have been developed in each of the areas below.
Citizenship goals are focused on becoming positive members of our community, Literacy and Mathematics goals are focused on understanding information from a variety of sources, and Personal Life Management goals are focused on areas of daily living and self-regulation.
Our past WEEK-AT-A-GLANCE posts focused on these areas. If you have not already done so, you can click on the slideshow below and go back to complete any of the former tasks.
This is not something that will be updated at this time.
Life Skills Challenges
Life Skills Challenges
There are also some things that students can do at home that don't require any technology - things that we were working on daily at school as well. Here is a list of ideas of "life skills" that would be helpful to do at home. Choose one per week, one per day, or as many as possible. Just some food for thought!
- Put dishes away after they are done eating - either gently in the sink or in the dishwasher.
- Wipe down the table after meals.
- Water any household plants.
- Help with laundry by sorting clothes into darks, colours, and lights. Put clothes into the washer and transfer from the washer to the dryer.
- Simple categorizing: which items belong in which rooms?
- Sorting: cutlery, coloured blocks, pens vs. pencils, items around the house.
- Match numbers in a deck of playing cards
- Fine Motor: practice unscrewing and screwing lids on bottles, build towers out of toilet paper rolls, hand-over-hand writing practice
- Counting: How many stairs are in your house? How many jumping jacks can you do in one minute?
- Matching socks and mittens
- Personal Hygiene: Practice brushing your teeth and putting on deodorant.
- Work on ASL hand signs (please, help, more, all done, food, water, drink, thank you, candy, cookie, happy, hello)
- Some of the students were able to help wash dishes.
- Many of the students took interest whenever we did cooking/baking. If they can do anything to help pour things or help stir, that would be great.
Please share ideas that are working for you and I will add them to the list!
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