Tuesday June 9

Tuesday:

For this week’s social skills lesson, we are going to jump ahead a few books in our “We Thinkers” series and read “Size of the Problem.” This story is a little bit longer than most of our stories, so if you need to take a break and come back to it later, that is totally fine. You can even watch split up into a few different sittings if you need to. Whatever works best for you. Because the story is longer, we had to split the videos into 4 parts. If you do need to take a break, pausing between the first story link and the second story link is a good breaking point.

Because the story is longer, we split the videos into 4 parts:

Introduction (40 seconds): https://youtu.be/r8Owplhw8ZQ 

Story First Half (7 minutes 22 seconds): https://youtu.be/UI-HgaMYneY 

Story Second Half (10 minutes): https://youtu.be/Fk9lwsO65FM 

Review (1 minute 50 seconds): https://youtu.be/z3Ww7julyaE  

Activity: Size Of The Problem Meter

Directions:

1) Cut a paper plate in half (or use a piece of paper and draw/cut a semi-circle on it)

2) Draw lines on the plate to create 3 even “triangle” spaces. Color the left space green, the middle space yellow, and the right space red.

3) Either print out, cut, and glue the pictures/words provided in the picture below, or draw and write your own in each section of the “problem meter.” (**NOTE** you do not need to include all the pictures and words if you are drawing/writing yourself. You can just include the “size word” and 1 smiley face to make it easier). 

4) Cut out the provided arrow (or cut out your own arrow) either use a paper fastener or tape to connect your arrow to your “problem meter.” If you use a paper fastener, you will be able to twist/move the arrow around the meter. If you use a piece of tape, you will have to peel the arrow off to move it along the meter. Either way will work great!

5) Use your meter when a problem occurs! Try to rate the size of the problem, make sure the size of your reaction matches the size of the problem, and then work to find a solution.

Handwriting Without Tears Review

1. Handwriting Without Tears Activity Cards- (ELA)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K5TCCTTGFruvIUOp513j9CTr0jklZDNa/view?usp=sharing

Handwriting Without Tears Activity Card Suggested Activities: 

• Trace the letters in the capital cards with a crayon and cut them out.

• Color the lowercase cards and cut them out.

• Put the cards on the floor in ABC order.

• Match the lowercase letters to the capital letters.

• Play a matching game. Turn over 10 capitals/10 lowercase cards and try to find a match.

• Line up the capital cards in a straight line. Hop next to them and say the sound and/or the letter name.

• Put the letter cards on the floor and play “I Spy a Letter.” “I spy a letter with a big line and a little line.”

• Place capital or lowercase cards on the floor and play “Thump the Letter.”

Call out a letter and the child thumps it with their hand.

Go on a letter hunt. Find things in your house that start with the letter and place the card

by the item (i.e., put a P card by a pillow or the L card by a lamp).

• Find the first letter of your name. Practice writing your name.

• Put all the letters in a pile (both sets). Now sort them by capital and lowercase.

Then pair them together.

• Play a card game. Make a stack of cards with both sets. Each player takes 4 cards.

Say, “I have a capital F, do you have lowercase f?” Play until there are no more cards.