Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Happy Wednesday Parents and Carers!

The boys and I decided to play some Scooter Ball Tag, but with some new activities. The boys also completed some relay races and a rope pulling activity. We worked on our bilateral, vestibular, and proprioceptive movements, fine and gross motor skills, motor planning, balance and coordination, hand-eye coordination, visual spatial skills, and math skills. It was so so much fun! 

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.

Here is Evan working with Ms. Leah and Mr. Jeremy during his OT session.

Here are the boys working together to figure out the remaining questions and problems for our pizza party. We figured out, using our pizza fractions game, that we needed five pizzas with eight slices in each pizza. We also looked at how we can ask for money and food donations to help us make, or order the pizza. The boys used great oral communication and problem solving skills, as well as math and social skills.

In gym class today we played a new dodgeball game called, "Bench Ball". There were two teams and the objective was for every member of the team to be standing on their opponent's bench. In order to stand on the bench you had to throw to the "catcher" who was standing on the opponent's bench. After the catcher caught the ball, the player who threw it got to stand on the bench and be a catcher too! It was a lot of fun and everyone utilized their bilateral, vestibular, and proprioceptive movements, fine and gross motor skills, motor planning, balance and coordination, hand-eye coordination, and visual spatial skills.

We spent a lot of time today going over our emotions, facial expressions, what other people may think we're feeling, how we are actually feeling, and how to work through problems.  The boys worked on their emotions and how they present their feelings to others via facial expressions. Here we are using a mirror to help support our work.

During Minute to Win It we worked on our concentration and focus, hand-eye coordination, bilateral movements, fine and gross motor skills, math skills, time management, sportsmanship skills, and how to work through our emotions. This was another building activity where they had to construct different structures by following various rules outlining what they could and could not build. 

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 : )