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Are you looking for a checklist to help your child to complete their daily chores? A visual checklist may assist to motivate your child and help them to organise themselves to complete their daily jobs. Find a range of "My daily jobs" charts in the Your Kids OT shop. Each package includes three charts with either pre-selected jobs or a blank chart to enable you to customise it for your child. There are a range of charts to appeal to girls and boys. Laminate the charts for durability and repeat use.
Children from toddlers to teenagers can help with daily jobs around the house. This helps to promote a range of skills including: * Social skills - turn taking, waiting, cooperation, language development, sharing, time with other family members in a shared experience. * Planning and organisation - planning and organisation of equipment and time; sequencing the procedure, motor planning. * Personal skills - self confidence, sense of achievement, sense of belonging to a family, independence and responsibility. A chore such as "setting the table" may be divided up among family members if you have more than one child in your family. For example, Child A takes the plates and cutlery, Child B takes the cups and serviettes. "My daily job" charts allow both children and parents to monitor what chores are completed in a week. This may be useful when pocket money or other "rewards" are given when chores are completed. Do your kids do chores around the home? What are they?
Writer's Hat was created by Linda Amos, a teacher and Assistant Principal from Melbourne, Australia. Ms Amos created Writer's Hat to inspire creative writing, oral literacy and imaginative thinking. It was designed with classroom teachers in mind, however is easily used by therapists and families as well. Writer's Hat is a simple app that consists of a word generator for categories - Who, What, Where and When. Students are encouraged to use the words generated for creative writing. Students who have difficulty with handwriting may also use the app to tell the story (with no writing component). Students may also use the words generated to type out a story on the ipad or desktop computer.  Writer's Hat is an ideas generator to inspire creative writing, oral literacy and imaginative thinking. The app also includes a second page called the "Word Box". This is a word generator for nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. This can be used in the same way as the "Writer's Hat" page.  Word Box generates words for creative writing, oral literacy and imaginative writing. Writer's Hat and Word Box come with an extensive list of words for each category, however you may personalise this by editing the word lists. You could add the names of students and family members. You may edit the spelling of words (which may be different when not in an Australian context). I enjoy using this app with kids in therapy. It is a useful tool to have working with kids who get stuck with ideas and don't know where to start with their creative writing. Kids like the "random" nature of words mysteriously appearing on the screen. You could use this app within a family context to see if you can create a story together. Let me know if your kids enjoy this app or if you find it useful in your context.
We are going overseas (**cue excited dance**). This involves an 8 hour flight and airport time (**cue nervous laughter**). We have travelled before as a family with a memorable almost-two-year old leaving her screams as a souvenir for those on our flights. This scarred us and we have waited for Mr 3 (almost 4) to "grow up" a little before attempting an international flight.
 Travelling with a preschooler. What's in Mr 3's "Trunki of Tricks"? 1. Trunki - the suitcase itself is a great fun. Mr 3 can sit on top of it and push along with his feet. We can pull him along whilst he sits and lifts up his feet. It fits neatly underneath the seat in front on the aeroplane so the contents can be accessed easily. Importantly, if you are in a hurry the Trunki has a long shoulder strap that adults can use to carry it. 2. Puzzles - individually packed in zip-locked bags. 3. Funny Faces colouring book by Crayola - includes stickers and colouring pages. 4. Kaleidoscope scratch art - includes wooden pencil, stencil and 2 pieces of scratch art paper. 5. Notebook, pencils and stickers 6. Books to read - chosen based on Mr 3's interests. 7. I -Spy books - very thin small books that have lots of detail to find. 8. Mr 3's folder of fun! - I found this neat zip up folder at Office Works. It has a small pocket which I have put the tiny car erasers and cars seen below. The folder also includes dry-erase markers, a glue stick and the following activity sheets.  My homemade activity sheets were made from scrapbooking paper, stickers and some printables. I laminated all of these activity sheets. They include: 1. Dinosaur scene with small dinosaur stickers. Mr 3 loves to tell stories with dinosaurs and I'm hoping this will occupy him for quite a while. 2. Thomas printables and train track. Both of these were found on the internet. 3. Car mazes with small cars. Three of the small cars are erasers found at a discount shop. These can be driven along the mazes or Mr 3 can use the dry-erase markers to draw on them. 4. Counting page. Mr 3 loves to count. 5. Rainbow I-Spy. I created this page for "spying" at the airport and on the aeroplane. Especially for the time that you sit on the runway and taxi to the runway....well this can take a long time! {Flashback to being delayed for an hour on the runway with almost-Miss-2-year-old}. You can find this printable at the Your Kids OT shop as a free printable. 6. Shapes matching page. Mr 3 can draw using the dry-erase markers to match the shapes or around the shapes. 7. Empty faces. Mr 3 (or I) can draw some funny faces. Yes, I know that there is quite a lot of stuff and hopefully it won't all be used! There is still the plane ride home. I will be trying to post to the blog whilst we are away but apologies if it doesn't work! These activity ideas are not restricted to travel times! The activity worksheets could be used in a therapy context. Do you think your preschoolers would like any of these activities? What is your "must pack" travel activity?
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AuthorHi, I'm Cindy and I am an Occupational Therapist. I enjoy working creatively with children to see them reach their potential. Read more about me here. 
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