Ok so I have been ALL about the schedules and routines and lists and charts and to do lists and been done lists...it is quite overwhelming! But I have narrowed things down a bit and think that the following will be super helpful for us this year, thought I would share with all of you.
Good Morning, Welcome To Your Day chart: this chart represents the things that need to be done in the morning before we walk out the door for school (since school is 6 days away we will work in school mode).
- I have added to the good morning chart a task for him to choose what sensory fun we will do that night
- I have put a variety of sensory fun tasks onto white 3 x5 notecards and based on what we have going on that night, he can randomly choose 1 or 2 cards (blindly choosing eliminates him needing to make a choice (which is a meltdown begging to happen), but still gives him some ownership)
- Pick up cotton balls with tongs
- Pick up cotton balls with tweezers
- Sift rice into cups with one hand
- Play war fast and deal cards
- Play uno, deal cards quickly
- Shaving cream in the shower on the tile
- Shaving cream in ziplock bags with food coloring. Allow them to write and draw on the ziplock (make sure you double bag)
- Shaving cream car wash - drive cars through it
- "Draw" pictures with cooked spaghetti noodles
I think adding the sensory items to the charts will ensure that the sensory is not overlooked.
Also, since things are so insanely busy with school starting, I need to create weekday routines for quick reference. For example it would be something like the below...
We also need to go down to a daily @ school schedule that he can keep in his desk at school so that at any given moment of the day he can find out where he is at and where he has to go.
Hopefully these will be helpful and make him more productive if he feels like he is in some kind of control.
Hopeful, ever so hopeful.
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