The day began by each student sharing what they did this weekend. We used lots of questioning and answering skills, oral communication, comprehension, problem solving, and implemented the question wheel and the Five W's.
Every Monday and Wednesday we are now going to be participating in SJA gym class. Today, we played a fun social skills active name game. Everyone 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.
Two of our friends needed a break and went back to the class with Ms. Monika to work on some fine motor arts and crafts. Great work co-regulating!
After snack and recess we discussed team work, social problem solving, and the logistics for our own creative Olympic Games. Students had to work in pairs or small groups and create a fun game that had a name, rules/ instructions, a points system/ purpose, and mascot. Everyone did well with their two way communication skills, turn taking, team work, social problem solving, abstract thinking, fine and gross motor skills, and number sense and numeracy skills. We are looking forward to our opening ceremonies coming up in the near future!
During our "Mindfulness" today we used a fun exercise involving spaghetti exercises to work on calming down our bodies, deep breathing, stretching, drama, and regulation. Afterwards, we went on a magical journey through a forest, river, climbed snowy mountains, listened to birds and the sound of leaves, while listening to a relaxing narrative and being exposed to sensory stimuli.
The afternoon began with Music Therapy with Ms. Christine, and a Thinking Goes to School (TGTS) creative abstract fine motor skills game called "Complete the Picture". Students were given various shapes, lines, edges, curves, etc. and then asked to create a picture, image, character, etc. with the design provided. Some of us worked hard to use their imaginations, creative artistic skills, fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, and math skills. Other students wanted to read and use the Geo Boards for their fine motor and math skills.
Sander is teaching Ojani a new game from home!
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.
During afternoon snack today we got to have some yummy gluten-free, dairy free cake to celebrate Jordan's 9th birthday! What a nice treat and a great time to socialize with all of the elementary academic.
At the end of the day we took a vote and played a game of Head Bands. This was a fun game where everyone had to use inferencing, questioning, abstract thinking, problem solving, turn taking, oral communication, categorization, classification, time and social skills.
Lastly, 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. 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 and see everyone tomorrow! Also, I will be adding Homework Tips and extensions on a daily basis to work on some of our daily/ monthly goals, as well as homework packs on a biweekly or monthly basis.
HOMEWORK TIPS:
1) Have your child create their own game (whether that may be a board game using cardboard and/ or paper, a skills game requiring hand-eye coordination and accuracy, addition and subtraction skills, and creative abstract thinking). One of our goals this year is to think more creatively, independently, and abstractly, without relying on scripts and the same games students may play over and over again. Plan a Family Game night and instead of Monopoly or Go Fish, create a game together! : )
2) Work on questioning, inferencing, grouping, and categorization games. Play "Head Bands" at home (draw a picture of a dog and write "dog", do not let your child see what it is and stick it on their foreheads, or put it behind a head band around their head. Your child will have to ask meaningful and relevant questions to figure out what the object is on their forehead), or "What's in the bag?" (place a random object in a brown paper bag, shoe box, garbage bag, etc. and your child has to ask questions and inferencing to figure out what the object is). Some great questioning techniques would be asking if it is a living or non-living object, human or animal, does it fly, can you throw it, is it a sphere, etc.
3) Go over any 2 and 3 digit addition problems (for example, 34 + 12 = 46). Try and get them to use counters, number lines, mental math, and regrouping strategies.
4) Use random shapes, patterns, lines, curves, etc. and make a picture out of nothing. For example draw a square and a wavy line, and perhaps your child will make a boat amongst the waves.
Mr. Jacob : )
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