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Home Visual Schedule Guide:Created by: Goldie Twerski, M.S. Sp. Ed; BCBAThis visual schedule guide and accompanying ready to print visual schedule was created to simulate a classroom structure and routine in the home setting. It was created for children ages 3-5 years old. The schedule is for a 10:00- 2:00 day; a good amount of time for a daily structured routine for children of this age. Setting up the space: Designate specific locations in the home for each part of the daily routine. Each part of the routine should be done in the same location every day. Try to avoid using your kitchen or dining room tables, in order to differentiate ‘school time’ from every day mealtimes. You will need two main locations to use as centers: 1: Kiddie table: In the main room of the house (dining room/ kitchen) prepare a kiddie table with kiddie chairs. This is where you will do table top, snack, and projects. 2: Carpet/ rug time: In the play-room or living room, place a rug in the corner of the room. This is the area you will use for ‘circle time’. In addition, you can have a play area, book time area and motor area. (If you have a small living space, no worries. As long as you are consistent with the ‘centers’ and designate a specific location for each part of the routine, you accomplish the goal of creating a scheduled productive learning and playing space for your child. Running the Routine: To use the visual schedule, hang the schedule on the wall near your ‘circle time’ rug. Review the daily schedule at morning circle. As you complete the activities throughout the day, you can flip the card on the schedule. If you don’t want to follow the times set on the schedule, create your own times and fill in with dry-erase markers. The times written on the schedule are good estimates for how long each activity should take for children ages 4-7. Table top: Prepare this activity in advance. This should be ready on the table, first part of the routine. This should be an activity your child can do on his/ her own. Examples: Worksheets with dot art, sticker worksheet, coloring sheets, play doh and play doh-shapes, insert puzzles, interlocking puzzles. You can download coloring sheets, do-a-dot sheets and sticker worksheets online free. You can also prepare Montessori style activities such as the one shown in the picture. Morning Circle: Establish a routine for morning circle. You can start with calendar and counting. If you want to make this ideal, you can create and hang posters on the wall near your rug for use at morning circle (similar to a Kindergarten classroom). This includes: Calendar, days of the week, weather and counting. Sing a song for each part of the routine and make it interactive. Have your child come up and place a card on the poster using fun tack or Velcro, or use a dry erase or permanent marker. Play- Time: This is time for symbolic/ pretend play. Ideally, join your child for the 30 minutes of play. If there are older siblings, they can help out with the routine as well. Snack: Your child should set the kiddie table with a place-mat and napkin. Have your child prepare a healthy snack such as a fruit or vegetable. Alphabet and Learning: Use flashcards to review all letters, introduce one new letter per week. For the new letter, do interactive activities such as creating the letter with play-doh or tracing it on a plastic sheet with a dry erase marker. Worksheets for letters can include: Circling letters, coloring different letters with different color markers. You can google alphabet letter worksheets. Outdoor Play: Outdoor play! Some ideas if you cannot use a playground: Bike riding, scooter riding, side-walk chalk, bubbles, water squirters. If the weather does not allow outdoor play, use this time for motor play in the home. You can set up an obstacle course, turn on music and dance, or use items from the home (think old mattress, lots of pillows) for gross motor play. Lunch: Child prepares place- mat and napkin. You can read a book during lunch or have your child listen to an interactive story tape. Lesson Time: Back to the circle time rug. To simulate a healthy learning environment, do 1 unit per week. Ideas can include: Spring, planting, birds and nests etc. Use a white board or large drawing pad to draw pictures for the lesson. Use ‘visuals’ such as puppets and materials. Project: This is an arts and crafts or interactive activity related to the lesson. You can get ideas online by googling ‘spring unit ideas. Book time: You can do quiet reading time, or read- a -loud together. Your choice! ................
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