What will November bring?

In honor of Thanksgiving, the theme for the month with be food.  We will expanding vocabulary and concepts with fun food activities.  We will be working on categorization, identification, matching and sequencing all month long.  We will build strength, coordination and attention with fine and gross motor activities.  The children will learn some singing silly songs and discover what kinds of foods SPOT likes to eat.

Remember, there are quite a few days off from school this month.
November 9, 10 for Parent/Teacher conferences
November 11 for Veteran's Day
November 24 and 25 for Thanksgiving Break.

Halloween Celebration

While we celebrate Halloween this week in SpOT, we will also be incorporating some fun activities, songs, and games that target are language and occupational therapy goals. We will be reinforcing fall and Halloween vocabulary while using tag bags (special bags that have various clasps for little hands to practice opening and closing) to discover pictures hidden inside. Sequencing and simple body parts will be practiced as the students make paper jack-o-lanterns. We look forward to another great week of SpOT and hope everyone is enjoying the nice fall weather!

Fall Fun

As all the changes of fall are happening, it is a great time to take some nature walks and talk with your child about everything they see. So bundle up, grab a paper bag, and collect some leaves! Collect all kinds of leaves and comment on and compare the different leaves. Use basic concept words like "big" and "small", comparative words "small, smaller, smallest", talk about the different colors, and comment on the different shapes of leaves. When you are done, find your favorites and do a leaf rubbing and hang it on the fridge...that way you don't need to keep all those leaves in your house.