Summer Suggestions

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Summer Sensory Calendar

For the Summer make a calendar with a different sense for each day and have fun.

Put activities that highlight that sense. I use:

Sounds of Sundays-Hearing

Mouthful Mondays- Taste and Smell

Tactile Tuesdays-Touch

Wiggle Wednesdays- Body Awareness

Thinking Thursdays- Brain Teasers

Fun Fridays-Multisensory Put it all together

Seeing Saturdays-Vision and Perceptual

Here is a June 2016 calendar already made out with fun activities to do for all the senses. Enjoy once you follow this then branch out and create your own for July and August or repeat the activities. They are fun.

Here's another great idea. Use sidewalk chalk to make scenes and take pictures. Have your student help plan the pictures -what goes where and how big it needs to be and then use sidewalk chalk to draw them. They will be working on executive functioning and fine/perceptual motor and creativity and not even know it.

Great fun for visual motor practice!

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Here is a fun dinosaur perceptual motor, Planning activity. After building Dinosaurs what else can you make with these shapes.

Going to the beach this summer?

Summer writing ideas

TOP 5 ACTIVITIES

1. Keep a journal. Write (or Draw something that happened each day.

2. Write letters to Grandma or draw pictures each week.

3. Write a chapter book writing one short chapter a week. You can even illustrate it and bind it at the end of the summer.

4. Pass a story. Sit down with your child and each of you start a story either 1 sentence or a paragraph....take to a cliff hanger then trade stories and add to their story. trade several times until you finish your own story.

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