St.Jude Therapy Center

St. Jude Therapy Center Celebration of Nutrition Month 2026 ✨🌈

Nourish the mind, body, and spirit healthy habits support growth in every way! 🥗🥙

Look who shone bright today! ✨ Our amazing students shared their talents through singing, dancing, heartfelt poems, and creative role play every moment was pure magic! ✨

Every voice, every step, every word, every scene of our students brought so much joy to our Nutrition Month celebration! 🥦💛 Great job! Our dear Students! 👏👏

A heartfelt thank you to our beloved parents and thank you for your trust, and for celebrating this Nutrition Month with us! 🥗 Your presence and support mean the world to us. 🥰😇

Big thanks to our dedicated teachers, staff, and Owners for a wonderful and successful Nutrition Month event! 💚 You are the heart of our center! ✨🥰

Intraverbal – FILL IN THROUGH SONGS ACTIVITY

Goal: The child should be able to complete independently the missing words or phrases in familiar songs when provided with a verbal cue, demonstrating improved intraverbal skills.

This activity aims to strengthen the child’s intraverbal language skills by encouraging them to recall and verbally complete familiar songs without relying on visual cues or full verbal prompts. It also promotes auditory memory, listening skills, language processing, and spontaneous verbal responding in a motivating and enjoyable way.

Additionally, it provides repeated opportunities for the child to practice and strengthen the words they are already able to say, increasing verbal fluency, confidence, and consistency in their speech.



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Gross Motor Balance

This gross motor balance activity helps improve the child’s balance, coordination, body awareness, and motor planning skills. It encourages the child to control their movements, follow directions, and develop confidence while navigating different obstacles. In ABA, it can also support attention, compliance, and following multi-step instructions in a fun and engaging way.






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SJTC PLAYGROUP SESSIONS ✨

Exploring rough vs. smooth, hard vs. soft. So much learning in one learning potato! 🥔🔍

Cutting and peeling potatoes is an excellent, low-pressure activity for children with clear benefits across sensory, motor, cognitive, emotional, and daily living skills. 🌈

Benefits:

🧩 Sensory Processing

- Touch: Feels rough skin, smooth flesh, firmness, moisture, and slight stickiness — great for desensitization, tactile tolerance, and calming over-responsive systems.
- Smell: Mild, familiar aroma; less overwhelming than strong foods, builds olfactory awareness.
- Sight: Color, shape, size, changes when peeled/cut; supports visual discrimination and focus.
- Proprioception: Firm pressure, gripping, pulling, and cutting gives deep muscle input — very regulating, reduces restlessness or anxiety.

✋ Fine & Gross Motor Skills

- Peeling: Grip strength, wrist rotation, hand-eye coordination, bilateral coordination (holding potato + moving peeler).
- Cutting: Controlled force, precision, finger isolation, stability; use plastic knives or safe cutters first.
- Hand strength: Builds dexterity needed for writing, dressing, zippers, buttons, and self-care.
- Arm/shoulder work: Heavy work input that calms and organizes the body.

🧠 Cognitive & Learning

- Sequencing: Step-by-step: wash → peel → cut → sort teaches order, routine, and following instructions.
- Cause & effect: “If I peel here, skin comes off; if I cut this way, shape changes”.
- Math basics: Count pieces, sort by size/shape, compare weight/quantity.
- Focus & attention: Repetitive, predictable, goal-oriented — easy to sustain attention, builds concentration span.
- Problem-solving: Adjusting grip, finding best way to peel/cut, adapting if potato is awkward.

Every peel and cut builds confidence and focus 🥔👐
Simple tasks, powerful impact. 😇


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