Let's Work Together- Interdisciplinary Group Ideas

Web Version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Pocket Full of Therapy Seek A Boo Game Delightful picture game features 36 large, round “Seek Me” photo cards and 36 smaller matching, “Find Me” cards. Scatter photo cards around an area either face up or face down depending on challenge level you wish to create. Players must “seek” out the matching pictures. Beautiful, color photos depict themes such as food, clothing, animals, colors, every day activities, etc. Great materials for facilitating language, attending, ocular scanning and categorizing skills. Try crawling or jumping between pictures to add a motor component to the game. Item # 3223 Stepping Logs Watch balance skills improve after a few trips around these balance logs on a rope! Begin by organizing logs in a bumper to bumper straight line. As balance and confidence improve, move on to more curved and open arrangements. Connecting rope makes them easy to move while raised surface provides traction and tactile stimulation. A “stack up” and take anywhere balance beam. Item # Q0002 Follow Us On Facebook Working Together Interdisciplinary groups, whether physical therapy, speech therapy, or occupational therapy are working together can be a great way to improve overall skills for your students.  Here are some great group ideas to use with your team: Backward Dodgeball: Have your students stand in a circle, the student with the ball will turn around, bending at the hips, roll the ball through their legs toward another student.  Add communication and have your student call out the name of a peer that they will throw the ball to.  Add gross motor before you throw the ball-jump five times then turn around and roll the ball, or balance for five seconds on one leg, hop and turn and throw.  Motor planning, strength, coordination, and socialization in one! Clean the Barnyard: You need a bucket of balls, a mat, and a group of children.  Stand the mat in the middle of the room (you may need more than one mat or some other type of divider.  Split your group into two teams, one on either side of the divider.  The balls will be on both sides.  The idea is to clean your side (the barnyard) first.   Your students will run, jump, hop, skip, or gallop around picking up a ball and throw it on the other side.  Communicate with each other, work together to clear your side before the time runs out.  Not Just Any Obstacle Course: Place some gross motor items on the floor, balance beam, hula hoops, bean bags.  Have your students work together, communicating on what should come first.  one student can write the steps down as they decide on what step comes first.  Once they have all the steps, they have to work together to build the obstacle course.   Writing Together Interdisciplinary Story Starters:  Work together to write a story.  Use one of these pictures or sentence starts to complete a paragraph.  Work together, communicate about what the story should be, add a writing step to an obstacle course; Jump over a large block, walk on the balance beam, and crawl through the tunnel but before your student stands up they have to write a sentence on the paper.  1. We raked so many leaves we wer able to build a... 2. It starting raining purple and green, we thought.... Shipping Special $5.00 Shipping Special on orders placed before Monday, October 5, 2015  on ground shipping orders placed within the contiguous U.S. Use code 5flat when placing your order.      Compiled by Lisa Walker OTR You're receiving this because you subscribed or placed an order with Pocket Full of Therapy. We will NEVER share or sell your info. Edit your subscription | Unsubscribe Contact Us: (800) PFOT-124 (732) 462-4474 *An OT is always available to answer questions or assist in selecting the right item!