The boys, Ms. Amber, Mr. Jeremy and I had a great sunny day! We started it off by playing 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!
After our sensory time the boys had a choice to complete our calendar, play a math game, or complete some work sheets. I thought my hearing was off as they all unanimously voted for work sheets! Although some of us found it to be Darth Vadar difficult (we use Storm Trooper Easy, Kylo Ren Mdium, and Darth Vadar Difficult in our class now), they were very determined and worked very hard to complete their Jump Math work on shapes, surfaces, and faces.
Here is Evan doing a great job with Ms. Leah during his 1:1 OT session.
In language arts today we continued with our work on adjectives, auditory processing, and shapes. Mr. Jacob drew a robot and gave them descriptive and directional clues to draw the picture themselves. This was a fun game that worked on their language and math targets.
In gym class today we played a new game called "Manhunt". One person, the guard, had to call out "go" and "stop" when appropriate, and everyone else had to run and hide behind objects to get to the guard's key without being seen. If you were caught, or the guard saw you, you would have to go back and start from the beginning. The winner snuck all the way to the guard's watch tower, grabbed the "key" (a ball), and ran back to the opposite wall without the guard catching them!
In social skills today we discussed drama, acting, and role play. The boys did very well acting out and making up different characters, as well as creating dialogue and a story line. This session utilized their turn taking, creativity, bilateral movements, abstract thinking, language and drama skills.
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. The boys did very well with a threading and alphabet sequence/ stacking game.
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 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.
Have a great day and see you all tomorrow!
Mr. Jacob : )
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