Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Happy Midweek Parents and Carers!

We had a great time today going over our emotions, feelings, problem solving skills, time and phonics!


The boys started off the day busting out their dance moves to their favourite videos on Go Noodle, i.e. robot dancing, Go Bananas Moose, and Pump that Bass! Great activity to help them regulate and demonstrate great body and muscle awareness, proprioceptive and bilateral movements, gross motor skills, motor planning, and auditory processing.

Mr. Evan was our teacher today and led the class through time (past, present, and future), calendar work (years, months, days, and weeks), emotions and feelings, and morning greetings. We spent a long time going over how certain actions, words, and behaviours make us feel, why we feel that way, what we can do, and how other people may feel as well.

During language arts the boys had 1:1 sessions with Ms. Amber playing Race Car Phonics. The others stayed in the classroom and went over our pizza spelling words, pizza phonics, and went over the /ch/ and /ee/ sounds in our phonics books.

During Minute to Win It we worked on our concentration and focus, hand-eye coordination, proprioception skills, bilateral movements, fine and gross motor skills, math skills, time management, sportsmanship skills, and how to work through our emotions.

Fine Motor colour match with tweezers/ Screwing different plastic bolts and nuts

Bean Bag balance race

In social skills the boys discussed emotions, stress, anxiety, and anger with their peers in Ms. Andrea and Ms. Jessica's classes. We then made 'stomp mats' with a partner to take out our frustrations on something that cannot be hurt/ harmed, or hurt/harm another person.

In the sensory gym we worked on our hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, math, time, and rhyming skills, and balance and coordination.

At the end of the day during Train Your Brain the boys participated in a team building exercise. They had to build different structures at various heights in order to hold different objects that all varied in weight! Some great two way communication, problem solving, motor planning, strategizing, descriptive words, team work , and sportsmanship. 

Have a great evening gentlemen and see you all tomorrow!

Mr. Jacob : )