Virtual Learning Activities

Dear Parents,

During this time of uncertainty with COVID-19 and restricted school access, the occupational therapy (OT) team would like to do the best we can to continue to engage with your child by providing suggested OT activities that can be performed at home. Attached is a list of suggested free resources, grade appropriate activities, websites, and reproducible worksheets. We will continue to monitor the situation and provide additional information accordingly. Choose an activity and/or activities for 20 minutes a few days a week. Please contact us via email for any specific questions pertaining to your child. Thank you.

Stay Healthy.

Sincerely,

Concord Public Schools Occupational Therapists

Donna Balmuth dbalmuth@concordps.org

Shannon Granger sgranger@concordps.org

Nancy Lankford nlankford@concordps.org

Jane Rigazio jrigazio@concordps.org

Stacey Torres storres@concordps.org

Fine Motor and Strengthening Activities

PRESCHOOL

K-Grade 2

Grade 3-5

Picking up small items with tweezers, clothespins, strawberry hullers, spinning tops, using eyedroppers (food coloring, water, bowl & coffee filters)
Playing with pop beads, Legos, Waffle Blocks, Tinker Toys,
Put pegs, birthday candles, and straws that are cut into playdough & use scissors to cut the playdough, pop bubble wrap
Tearing strips (lightweight and medium paper and make a collage

Cookie decorating (cake icing, sprinkles 7 tube icing)

Create a collage from paper, magazines, etc.
April Scissor Skills – Pattern Cut & Glue RAINY DAY (activity sheet below)
Legos and other construction toys
Board games that include small parts (Operation, Frogs in a Bucket, Trouble, Bed Bugs)
Pinching, squeezing, rolling and cutting playdough/clay/putty, hiding small items inside

Pinching, squeezing, rolling and cutting clay/putty, putting pegs in clay, hiding small items inside
Baking/cooking activities that involve pouring, mixing, and rolling
Origami (link below)
Card games like Uno, Crazy 8’s, Fish, War, Rummy
Typing Practice- Thoreau and Alcott (grades 3 &4) and Willard (grade 4) students can access school accounts through the school website for typing.com, and Willard (grades 2 & 3) can access Keyboarding Without Tears

Visual Motor and Visual Perceptual Activities

PRESCHOOL

K-Grade 2

Grade 3-5

Draw simple shapes (rectangle, square, rectangle, triangle & circles) with thick lines & cut the shapes & make a picture with shapes
Make dots & connect the dots to make shapes and simple pictures (a house, a train, etc).
Coloring: Make coloring lines wider to provide coloring boundaries. (link below)
Simple Puzzles
Mazes

Offer a variety of writing/drawing tools: sidewalk chalk, regular chalk, markers, paint brushes
Rainbow Writing
Hidden Pictures and Mazes (Look and Find activity below, and links below)
Assemble puzzles and build with blocks and other construction toys