The following are examples of the activities Preschool and School-age children will participate in, and the skills they stand to gain.

 

Swim School Experience

• Daily Life Skill: participation in an organized class with peers, safety awareness

• Physical Development: The British Swim Schools goal is to first teach floating skills and then swimming strokes; preparing a child with the skills needed to remain calm and safe in the water, reacting to an emergency situation with calmness

  • Bilateral coordination, Ipsilateral coordination; Strengthening: legs, hips, arms, core

• Emotional regulation: following directions, frustration tolerance, waiting, peer play,  increased confidence

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Travel back to Mighty Minds and Muscles

• Community: safety on sidewalks and intersections, awareness of others on the sidewalk, scootering safely

• Physical Development: scooter or walking, endurance, bilateral coordination

• Executive Functioning: planning, following multi-step instructions, impulse control, focus

 

Snack Prep + Snack

• Daily Life Skill: peeling fruit, washing hands, basic food preparation, following 2-3 step recipes, trying something new

• Building Social Relationships: mealtime conversations, sharing experiences, and listening in reciprocal conversations, 

• Sensory Development: trying new foods, food texture, smell exposure, food exposure, explorative play with no pressure or forced outcome

 

Academic Class

• Academic Skills: reading, writing, following instructions, independent work towards a goal

• Daily Life Skill: participating in organized group activities, collaborating with peers, sharing materials, body management in groups

• Executive Functioning: attention regulation, multi-step task sequencing, planning and organizing a project

 

Park

• Physical Development: climbing, running, swinging, 

• Building Social Relationships: sharing, turn-taking, initiating and responding to peer interactions, regulating emotion and frustration responses

• Sensory Development: proprioceptive input, vestibular input, auditory processing and prioritization, responding to unexpected touch from peers

• Community: safety awareness with oneself and others, navigating crowded environments

 

Sensory Gym/Activity

• Physical Development: climbing, running, swinging, balance, etc.

• Sensory Development: proprioceptive input, vestibular input, auditory processing and prioritization, responding to unexpected touch from peers

• Building Social Relationships: sharing, turn-taking, initiating and responding to peer interactions, regulating emotion and frustration responses

 

Field Trip Examples

Community-based spaces such as the Brooklyn Bridge, water parks, museums, and libraries

• Academic Skills: project based learning, goal oriented learning, exploratory learning

• Community:safety awareness with oneself and others, navigating crowded environments