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Distance Learning
Severe and Profound Special Education Classroom
Functional Curriculum
Parents: Below are some different activities you can work on at home with your child.
Self-Help skills:
Eating meals using adaptive utensils
Opening packaged items/milk/juice cartons
Wiping table areas
Washing hands/face
Toileting, participating in range of motion during diaper changing
Pre-Vocational/Functional activities:
Sorting items according to color, shape, size, item type
Assembling items such as 2 piece bolts and screws, toothbrush and toothbrush holders, eating utensils in sets
Packaging items such as various coins, clothespins, pencils
ID alphabet letters
ID shapes
ID colors
ID common items from a box of actual items-or from photo cards
ID names
ID utensils
Trace dotted lines/directional lines needed to make a mark for a letter
Attempt to make a mark
Select activity
Return items to designated location
Look at book/magazine
Manipulate simple puzzles
Play with music toys
Match items according to colors, shapes, item type
Match pictures of items to same picture
Match item to item
Recreational/Leisure activities:
Books/magazines
Tactile manipulatives
Puzzles
Music toys
Computer games
Books on tape
Board games
Coloring pages
Community activities:
ID Community helpers
ID Community environments
Look at books involving Community helpers
Listen to stories/songs about Community helpers
Mrs. Howell – Howelti@richmond.k12.ga.us
Distance Learning Activities for Adapted Physical Education.
Parents: Below are some activities that you and your child can do to stay active and healthy during the distance learning period.
These activities align with curriculum standards and will help your child with retention until May 8, 2020.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Time to get outside and
move. Ask someone in
your family to come out
with you
Practice your throwing
skills. Find a big target
and throw as hard as
you can at it. Work on
stepping right at the
target with your
“opposite” foot.
Work on your locomotor
skills – go outside and
practice walking,
running, galloping,
skipping, jumping and
hopping.
Running is a great way
to make your heart
healthy. Try to run for 2
minutes without
stopping.
Work on your tossing
and catching skills with
someone. Toss it right to
their hands.
Work on your bending,
twisting, shaking,
reaching, and crunching.
Can you think of other
ways to move while
staying in one spot?.
Turn on some music and
make your
parent/caregiver dance
with you. Tell them they
have to dance for at
least two whole song
Practice your ball rolling
skills by rolling a ball
back and forth with
someone. Each time you
roll it, back up one step
Get outside today and
play “I Spy”. Each time
one of you says, “I spy”,
you have to all walk, run
or gallop to that object
Using an empty paper
towel roll and a balloon;
work on volleying the
balloon so it does not
touch the floor
Distance Learning Activities for Adapted Physical Education.
Parents: Below are some activities that you and your child can do to stay active and healthy during the distance learning period.
These activities align with curriculum standards and will help your child with retention until classes resume.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Start the month off with
a game of follow the
leader. Move around
your house in different
ways as someone
copies your movement
Practice your throwing
skills. Find a big target
and throw as hard as
you can at it. Work on
stepping right at the
target with your
“opposite” foot.
Work on your locomotor
skills – go outside and
practice walking,
running, galloping,
skipping, jumping and
hopping.
Running is a great way
to make your heart
healthy. Try to run for 2
minutes without
stopping.
Work on your tossing
and catching skills with
someone. Toss it right to
their hands.
Chair Exercise”. Move
around, under, and over
a chair; sit down and
stand up using a chair;
turn on music and
wiggle & stretch while
sitting in a chair.
Turn on some music and
take turns choosing a way to move
Try to wiggle and shake
every part of your body,
one by one. Then wiggle
or shake your entire
body.
Make yourself really
small and on the count
of three spring up into
the air, reaching and
stretching to make
yourself really big
Find a ball and practice
kicking. How far can you
make the ball go? How
high can you make it
go?
Twins – for 2-5 minutes
pretend as if you are
connected to someone
else and the two of you
have to move exactly
the same way.
Find lines on the
sidewalk or driveway
and jump over them.
Remember to land softly
on two feet.
Practice your ball rolling
skills by rolling a ball
back and forth with
someone. Each time you
roll it, back up one step
Get outside today and
play “I Spy”. Each time
one of you says, “I spy”,
you have to all walk, run
or gallop to that object.
Using an empty paper
towel roll and a balloon;
work on volleying the
balloon so it does not
touch the floor.
Work on your bending,
twisting, shaking,
reaching, and crunching.
Can you think of other
ways to move while
staying in one spot?
Turn on some music and
make your
parent/caregiver dance
with you. Tell them they
have to dance for at
least two whole songs
Balance on two body
parts. How about three
parts or four or ever five
body parts?
Put a sock puppet on
your hand and have it
travel high, low, fast,
slow, curvy and straight
Time to get outside and
move. Ask someone in
your family to come out
with you
Music Activity Ideas for Home
1. Listen to a good morning song when you wake up or during breakfast. Listening and singing along to the same song every morning gives students an opportunity every day to recognize and begin interacting to a song through repetition.-When listening to your favorite music at home clap to the simple steady beat. You can hand over hand clap or stomp with them, as well.
- Links to YouTube good morning songs (either search for the titles or click the link if able):
1. The Singing Walrus Good morning song
2. Greg & Steve - Good Morning2. Easy at home instrument making: Easter eggs are readily available right now. Fill them with household objects (beans, rice, pasta, beads, etc.) and tape them shut. You can also decorate them with permanent markers or decorative tape. Use these “shakey eggs” to experiment with the different sounds the different objects inside make. Use them to shake along with your favorite music.
- Listen to and Learn about the ABC’s through a fun song!
- “Reggae ABC song”
3. If you have a streaming video service, find musical movies to watch together and take notes on the music.
Charlie Brown movies are great to showcase Jazz, Fantasia is wonderful classical musical centered movie.4. If you have an iPad at home, try these apps:
o SoundTouch or VideoTouch
o StoryBots
o Music Sparkles
On your computer, the website www. https://www.incredibox.com/ for a fun and easy activity. You click on the
different people that add different sounds to create your own song. There is also an app you can download.
Check out the group “Blazer Fresh” on YouTube. There are lots of songs that teach educational concepts and are
fun catchy tunes.
https://family.gonoodle.com/ is a wonderful website with meaningful screen time activities. There are core
curriculum concepts that are addressed as well as fun songs and PE activities you and your children can do
together.
Here’s a YouTube Link for a playlist of songs we sang for the 2020 Music Program. You can also search for
“Adapted Music Teacher” in YouTube and find all of my playlists on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH_OnJk6QqU&list=PLEuWtuyHL0_
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