Thursday, February 25, 2016

Happy Thursday Parents and Carers!

Mr. Eric was our teacher today and led the class through time (past, present, and future), calendar work (years, months, days, and weeks), emotions and feelings, morning greetings.

We were all smiles to start the day!

Peace!

As always, we had to begin our day with some sensory dancing. Guided dancing and sensory circuits are both great activities to help regulate and demonstrate great body and muscle awareness, proprioceptive, vestibular and bilateral movements, fine and gross motor skills, motor planning, and auditory processing.

In math today we began by playing our Pizza Fractions board game. Afterwards we completed different levelled Jump Math worksheets fractions and everyone did very well!

In language arts we played a fun auditory processing game called "Pizza, Pizza"! Our friends had to listen to different pizza orders and make them from memory after verbal instructions from a pizza customer. This is a great game for auditory processing, memory, and comprehension.

Before we got to play Ms. Andrea's dodgeball game, we took part in a fun tug-of-war with some older students in Oakwood. Afterwards, we had some fun playing "Party Pooper"! It was a great game similar to dodge ball, and it utilized auditory processing skills, fine and gross motor skills, bilateral, vestibular, and proprioceptive movements, motor planning, sportsmanship, and teamwork!

In Minute to Win It today the boys had to knead, pull, stretch, and roll play-doh into a pizza, and then use a toothpick to cut in into certain fractions. For example, they had to make a pizza with four slices (1/4 ths) and eight slices (1/8 ths). It was a lot of fun and utilized their fine motor skills, math skills (fractions and numeracy), and sportsmanship.

During social skills the boys worked with their friends in Ms. Andreas class. They had to first, pick teams that had two friends from each class, and then they had to agree on an activity. Our group decided to make a life size Angry Birds game using dinosaurs! There was lots of great discussion and social problem solving.

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.

Have a great evening gentlemen! See you all tomorrow!

Mr. Jacob : )