To begin the day and help regulate our bodies we went outside to do some sprints and silly animal moves on the sport court. This was a great activity to help regulate and demonstrate great body and muscle awareness, proprioceptive, vestibular and bilateral movements, gross motor skills, motor planning, and auditory processing.
Mr. Evan 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, and what we did over the weekend.
The boys also had to fix a sentence I wrote that had spelling errors, grammatical errors, and words that were spelt backwards.
In Math today the boys did very well looking at nets, what 2D shapes make up specific 3D shapes, and sides, vertices, and edges. This was new material that we looked at and everyone did impressively well!
During Language Arts we looked at some of our new spelling words: money, invite, food, party, and spring. The boys had to find the correct word on the whiteboard amongst various other words by using their "light sabres". Afterwards, they had to write down our new words and then complete a work sheet that requires them to write the word, find the word, trace the word, build the word, and use it in a sentence.
Finding our new spelling words
Writing down our new spelling words
Copying, tracing, finding, building, and using our new words in a sentence.
In Gym class today we played a new game with our friends from Ms. Andrea's and Ms. Jessica's class called "Capture the Flag". It was slightly different than the classic version but everyone did very well. 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, and balance and coordination.
For Social Skills today Ms. Andrea's class joined us for a fun Team Building challenge: The Dam Challenge. Our friends got into groups with their peers and had to construct a dam out of various materials that could prevent water from reaching a stack of cubes in a large container. This was a great activity for team work, oral communication skills, sportsmanship, problem solving, math skills, fine motor skills, and social problem solving. This was a tricky activity and much harder than the boat and bridge building activities in the past.
Constructing in our groups
Testing our dams
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.
Afterwards 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 "sad", or yellow for "silly". When we did very well together 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.
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