The boys, Ms. Amber, and I had another day full of fun and friends!
Evan started his day off with Ms. Amber completing his sensory diet, while the other three wanted to write in journals. Yes, I said it, they wanted to write in journals! We had some fun writing full sentences and drawing pictures to go along.
I bet you can guess what we did next.... some sensory dancing on Go Noodle! Yup, dancing again! Haha Guided dancing is great sensory activity to help regulate and demonstrate great body and muscle awareness, proprioceptive and bilateral movements, gross motor skills, motor planning, and auditory processing.
Mr. Avery 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 all forgot whose turn it was today and needed to look back at our blogs to figure it out! Great problem solving skills by the boys.
The boys did some great time management and problem solving, and then had some time to do activities that they all agreed on, like Jurassic Park, Lego's, and dancing!
In language arts we played a fun pizza game involving rhyming, categories, synonyms, definitions, phonics, phonemic and phonological awareness. It was so much fun!
We had a new fun relay race activity in gym today. Two teams had to pull themselves on a scooter by using a rope, and then get back to tag a friend by using their legs. A great session involving motor control, gross motor skills, balance and coordination, bilateral movements, teamwork and sportsmanship.
In social skills we got into pairs and discussed things that make us upset, why they make us upset, and things we can do when we are upset. Afterwards, we got to make a fun calming sensory bottle to use when we are feeling sad, mad, frustrated, annoyed, etc.
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.
Lastly, we read a cool book called Pete's A Pizza. It is a great sensory story involving a boy, Pete, who is grumpy because he cannot play baseball. Pete's father tries to cheer up his son by making him into a pizza!
Here are the boys getting our pizza roller.
Getting "oil" (water) and "flour" (baby powder) tossed on the "dough" our bodies. This was down after we kneaded, stretched, and rolled the dough (massaged, stretched, and deep pressure on their bodies).
Next, we had cheese and toppings (construction paper and paper toppings) thrown onto the pizza while using an Italian accent. Haha
The pizza is in the oven and looking ready to eat!
Have a great evening gentlemen and see you tomorrow.
Mr. Jacob : )
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