Happy Thursday Students, Parents, and Carers!
We began our day with integration, sensory diets, and Floortime (child-led play). Play is great for creativity, language arts and complex communication skills, abstract thinking, problem solving skills, inquiry and mathematics skills, role-play and drama, fine motor skills, teamwork, and social skills.
Sensory diets are so important for regulation, auditory processing skills, teamwork, social skills, sportsmanship, motor planning, body mapping, sequencing, gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.
Ring toss is a great tool to work on our fine and gross motor skills, visual spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, turn taking, sportsmanship, and math skills (arithmetic).
We decided to have some STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) fun using plastic cups and various other art materials. Students had to use their fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, problem solving skills, math skills, creative arts skills, two way communication skills and team work skills to complete the activity.
Mr. Carter was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time (past, present/now, future), and feelings. This is a great opportunity to work on ideation and symbolism, abstract and complex communication, mathematics and the passage of time, social and life skills, and communication skills.
As usual, in gym today we played Soccer and Parachute games outdoors. Students had to work together and used their auditory processing skills, visual spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, praxis, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.
Carter had a very exciting morning and had a blast with a very nice gentlemen who drove the local garbage truck today!
In the afternoon the boys used their fine motor skills, sequencing skills, reading skills, comprehension skills, measurement skills, arithmetic skills, team work and communication skills to make play-doh with Ms. Ashley! Afterwards we used our role-play and creative arts skills as well as money skills to make a pizza restaurant!
Pizza Chefs
Pizza Shop Owner- Papa Ojani!!!
Pizza Worker
Pizza Shop
Hard at work!
Silly Moustache Faces!!! lol
At the end of the day we had a quick reflection before hosting a Graduation Party for Mr. Ojani! Ojani is leaving for Arizona tomorrow but will be back with the boys at Oakwood in September.
Have a great evening everyone!
Mr. Jacob : )
TOMORROW is our graduation at 11:15 a.m. AT 10:45 A.M. THERE WILL BE COFFEE, JUICE, WATER, DONUTS, AND FRUIT IN MY CLASS TO SAY GOODBYE AND SPEND SOME TIME TOGETHER BEFORE THE BUSY GRADUATION CELEBRATION!
