Friday, April 29, 2016

Happy Friday Parents and Carers!

Before Show and Tell the boys wanted to get loose and move to some Go Noodle videos. Guided dancing is a great activity 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.

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, and morning greetings.

As always we began our fun Friday with our Show and Tell session. Everyone had to describe their object, share why they brought it in, where they got it from, how long they have had it, and why it is so special. We also used a Question Wheel to help work on our questioning and answering skills, using descriptive language, and working on inferencing and oral communication skills.

In Art class today we made funky kits with our partners. The boys engaged in fine motor skills, creativity, team work, problem solving, and oral communication skills!

The boys did very well practicing their roles ad lines for our Peter Pan play! We had lots of fun with our friends!

Avery has been lifting weights!

In Science we played a very fun interactive game where we went over our different Canadian habitats from last week. Everyone had to use their auditory processing skills and animal/ habitat knowledge to act out different animals and walk/crawl/slither/fly/jump/etc. to the correct habitat.

Have a great weekend gentlemen!

Mr. Jacob : )

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Happy Thursday Parents and Carers!

I apologize for not completing the blog yesterday. I accidentally deleted all of my photos for the day! : (

Unfortunately we still did not have a full class today, and so, we have postponed our No Frill's trip. I felt like it would be unfair for the boys to have worked so hard together on this, and then not have everyone participate.

The day began by continuing to make our pizza party decorations. The boys began making some Pizza Monster papier mache figures to hang in the cafeteria. They had fun getting messy, using their fine motor skills, and listening to music!

The boys attended St. Jude's Grade 1/2 gym class today and played a similar game to Manhunt. Mr. Eric was our key master and he had to spot the burglars in the museum before they got to the keys, and unlocked the safe. The boys got to work on their hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.

Zachary was our key master today!

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.

In Gym today we continued to play a fun tag type game called, Shark Attack! The boys demonstrated great auditory processing skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, math, and balance and coordination.

After lunch we practiced our shoe tying skills and the boys did very well. No one gave up and they stick through with the task!

For social skills today we joined Ms. Andrea's class to talk about the Zones of Regulation, and how to play with our friends. The boys then participated in a "Play Master" session where one friend gets five minutes to dictate and run a game with their own rules. After five minutes is up the next friend gets to be the 'play master', and so on. This is a great game for social skills, communication, turn taking, creativity, fine motor skills, and emotions.

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, phonics and rhyming skills, and balance and coordination.

At the end of the day we threw a dance party for Mr. Jeremy's 21st Birthday, and because today is his last day : ( We gave him homemade cards, had some popcorn and Oreo cake, and showed off our dance moves. Thank you for all of your support, kindness, and positive energy Mr. Jeremy. All the best from Mr. Jacob's class! : )

Have a great evening gentlemen and see you all tomorrow!

Mr. Jacob : )

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Happy Tuesday Parents and Carers!


The day began with only two friends engaging in some Guided Dancing on Go Noodle. We woke up our bodies and completed some great stretching videos to begin our busy day.

The boys attended St. Jude's Grade 1/2 gym class today and played a similar game to Manhunt. Mr. Eric was our key master and he had to spot the burglars in the museum before they got to the keys, and unlocked the safe. The boys got to work on their hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.

Mr. Zachary 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.

In Language Arts today we worked on our Pizza Party by completing our letters home and working on our invitations! We demonstrated great letter recognition and formation, proper sentences, typing, brainstorming, problem solving, and math skills. During this session Mr. Zachary completed his 1:1 Reading/ Phonics session with Mr. Jeremy.

Eric and Avery also starting making some decorations for our pizza party.

In Gym we started off playing a real life version of Rock, Paper, Scissors using our bodies. Next, we play a fun tag type game called, Shark Attack! The boys demonstrated great auditory processing skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, math, and balance and coordination.

For Social Skills today Ms. Andrea's class joined us for a fun Team Building challenge: The Boat Challenge. Our friends got into groups with their peers and had to construct a boat out of various materials that could not only float, but hold the biggest amount of dominoes without sinking. This was a great activity for team work, oral communication skills, sportsmanship, problem solving, math skills, fine motor skills, and social problem solving. 

                                                                 Building our Boats

Testing our Boats

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, phonics and rhyming skills, and balance and coordination.

At the end of the day we went over our Zones of Regulation and used different coloured blocks to symbolize how our day was, and how different times of the day went. For example, if one of our friends was upset after morning recess, we stacked a blue block symbolizing "sadness". When we did very well together during St. Jude's gym class we used a green block, symbolizing "happy and ready to learn"! We also got to share our own ideas and thoughts on how our day went, and took turns saying one nice thing about our friends from today's work. 

                                                          Have a great evening gentlemen!

                                                                           Mr. Jacob : )