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Transfer Work

Suggested Activities:

  • Rise and Shine!
  • Toileting, dressing
  • Feed pets
  • Enjoy making and eating a delicious breakfast
  • Clear your dishes: rinse and load dishwasher or hand wash and dry
  • Clean the table and sweep the floor

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  • Transfer work: place small amount of water, oatmeal, lentils or beans into a measuring cup and the child pours into a glass/cup. Child pours back into the measuring cup. Repeat. This can also be a spooning activity with two bowls and a spoon or scooper
  • Scissor Work: practice, refine, and master how to hold, open/close, and cut.

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  • Toileting break and wash hands 
  • Food prep: biscuits or cracking, peeling, slicing, and plating a hard boil egg. If you don’t have an egg slicer, try a plastic butter knife or adult slices. Child decides
  • Clear your dishes: rinse and load dishwasher or hand wash and dry
  • Clean the table and sweep the floor

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  • Set the table for a snack (placemats, dishes, utensils, glasses, napkins)
  • Light a candle
  • Sing a song and child snuffs candle flame or blows out
  • Buon appetito!
  • Toileting break and wash hands

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  • Outside: 1-1.5 hrs.
  • unstructured play or take a walk 
  • Explore, great time for language and sensorial connections
  • Toileting break and wash hands

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  • Lunch and naptime (12-3pm)

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  • Wake-up sleepy heads!
  • Toileting
  • Snack
  • Choose work or go outside or both. Child decides- (3-5pm)

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Arts and Crafts

Suggested Activities:
  • Rise and Shine!
  • Toileting, dressing
  • Feed pets
  • Enjoy making and eating a delicious breakfast
  • Clear your dishes: rinse and load dishwasher or hand wash and dry
  • Clean the table and sweep the floor

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  • Wash the Windows: using a small spray bottle containing vinegar water solution or non-toxic solution, spray windows, scrub, and dry with a squeegee or crumbled newspaper.
  • Arts & Craft: gather lentils, beans, and pasta. Parents, cut out some shapes or draw a picture (i.e. leaf, flower, sun). Your child glues the lentils, beans, and pasta on to the shape.
TMSE Gluing beans
Paper, glue, beans, and lentils

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  • Toileting break and wash hands
  • Food prep: biscuits and/or peeling, chopping, and plating cucumber or carrots?
  • Clear your dishes: rinse and load dishwasher or hand wash and dry
  • Clean the table and sweep the floor

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  • Set the table for a snack (placemats, dishes, utensils, glasses, napkins)
TMSE Snack
Snack time!
  • Light a candle
  • Sing a song and child snuffs the candle flame or blows it out “For the Golden Corn”
  • Model and remind them to eat with their utensils- no more fingers in their mouth and slow down, take their time

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  • Outside: 1-1.5 hrs.
  • Unstructured play or take a walk
  • Explore, great time for language and sensorial connections

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  • Lunch and naptime (12-3pm)

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  • Wake-up sleepy heads!
  • Toileting
  • Snack
  • Choose work or go outside or both. Child decides- (3-5pm)
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Language Work

Suggested Activities:

  • Rise and Shine!
  • Toileting, dressing
  • Feed pets
  • Enjoy making and eating a delicious breakfast
  • Clear your dishes: rinse and load dishwasher
  • Clean the table and sweep the floor

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  • How are we going to be kind and helpful today?
  • Stereonostic bag: toiletries
  • Carpentry tools and exact matching cards
  • Doctor’s tools and similar matching cards
  • Conversations and observations | Dog replicas and similar matching cards

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  • Toileting break and wash hands
  • Food prep: biscuits and/or pulling the greens off of the cilantro and chopping? Child decides- (Substitute with anything leafy)
  • Clear your dishes: rinse and load dishwasher or hand wash and dry
  • Clean the table and sweep the floor

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  • Set the table for a snack (placemats, dishes, utensils, glasses, napkins)
  • Light a candle

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  • Outside: 1-1.5 hrs.
  • unstructured play or take a walk
  • Explore, great time for language and sensorial connections
  • Lunch and naptime (12-3pm)

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  • Wake-up sleepy heads!
  • Toileting
  • Snack
  • Choose work or go outside or both. Child decides- (3-5pm)
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Plant Care

Suggested Activities:

  • Rise and Shine!
  • Toileting, dressing
  • Feed pets
  • Enjoy making and eating delicious breakfast
  • Clear your dishes: rinse and load dishwasher
  • Clean the table and sweep the floor

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  • Plant care:
  • Indoor plants: Water, dust, wash
  • Garden outside
  • Pick some flowers for a flower arrangement
  • “Garden Song” by Peter, Paul, & Mary
  • Easel and/or watercolor paintings
  • Paper tearing and glue collage (tissue paper, wrapping paper, magazines, circulars, etc.)
  • Collage can be placed on top of dry paintings
  • Wash your hands (can turn into sensorial work- switch out scented soaps or soaps that make serious bubbles or colored soaps)

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  • Dance Party!! TMSE recordings coming soon, YouTube, Spotify (Raffi, Hap Palmer, Ella Jenkins)
  • Food prep: biscuits or quesadillas? Child decides

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  • Set the table for a snack (placemats, dishes, utensils, glasses, napkins)
  • Light a candle
  • Sing a song (at school we sing For the Golden Corn)
  • Child snuffs candle flame or blow out

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  • Outside: 1-1.5 hrs.
  • unstructured play or take a walk
  • Explore, great time for language and sensorial connections