Homework / Home-Fun
Below are activities and concepts that you can work on at home with your child to enhance learning. Come back and visit this page again to see new posts!
What is Whole Body Listening?
Whole Body Listening is more than just “hearing” with the ears.
It Includes:
Discuss and practice the concepts of Whole Body Listening at home with your child on a regular basis.
Whole Body Listening is more than just “hearing” with the ears.
It Includes:
- listening with with the eyes listening with the eyes (looking at the speaker)
- listening with the mouth (closed and quiet - no talking, humming, making sounds, etc.)
- listening with the body (facing the speaker)
- listening with the hands (quietly at the side of the body or in the lap)
- listening with the feet (standing still or quietly on the floor)
- listening with the brain (thinking about what the speaker is saying)
- and listening with the heart (caring about what the speaker is saying)
Discuss and practice the concepts of Whole Body Listening at home with your child on a regular basis.
Visual Reinforcers
Use the visual icons below to further reinforce good listening and attention skills. Practice what good listening "looks like" with your child (as described above) and offer praise when he/she exhibits these behaviors at home.
Fall Break Photo Album Homework Assignment
Thank you for participating in this special homework/home-fun activity! We look forward to working on language skills in a fun and practical way.
Have a wonderful fall break! .
- Please find the photo album in your child’s backpack
- Fill album with pictures of family and friends
- Use sentence strip (provided) to describe who is in photo and what event/activity is taking place
- Tuck sentence strip into photo album at bottom of photo
Thank you for participating in this special homework/home-fun activity! We look forward to working on language skills in a fun and practical way.
Have a wonderful fall break! .
Mommy, daddy, sister, brother and me at the farm.