The began with a round of Show & Tell. We used lots of inferencing, questioning and answering skills, oral communication, problem solving, scientific vocabulary, adjectives, and implemented the question wheel and the Five W's.
Toy Plane
Bouncy Ball
Pokemon Card
Cupcake Socks
For our morning exercise everyone decided to play Snow Ball Fight again. This time we used some phonics, mathematics, and more difficult questions. This session was very important for the students to help them regulate, and demonstrate great body and muscle awareness, proprioceptive, vestibular and bilateral movements, fine and gross motor skills, motor planning, auditory processing, social problem solving, oral language skills, math skills, phonics and reading.
Afterwards we discussed our classroom Olympics. Students began discussing what their Olympic character/athlete profile will look like, and we brainstormed some ideas to make our own Olympic Games. Games have to have a point system, rule/ instructions, mascots, and we had to name our game. This was a great abstract thinking and problem solving activity where students and to work together in teams to develop and create their own game. Students got to use a variety of materials, recyclables, blocks, Lego's string, paper plates, etc. with their groups. Everyone used social skills, team work, fine and gross motor skills, visual spatial skills, questioning and answering, social problem solving, and two way communication skills.
In Gym today we warmed up by playing "Elephant Soccer". Students had to get in a circle with their feet touching and legs spread open. Our "trunk" were our two arms hung low between our feet. The objective was to score a goal between someone else's feet by using your "trunk" and hitting the ball. This was a fun game that got our hearts' racing and everyone played so well with each other. Afterwards, we played Doctor Dodge Ball. 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.
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. We used Ocean Mist spray, paper bags full of leaves, smooth and cool stones, soft feathers, and a spray bottle. Two of our friends helped us create the sound of leaves falling and crunching under our feet.
After lunch we worked on our fine motor skills, writing skills, and letter and number formation by completing 5 work sheets from the JUMP Math program. Before the sensory gym we also played a couple rounds 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.
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.
Lastly, four of our friends wrote and drew in their journals practicing their letter sounds, letter formation, and proper sentence structure, while the other three participated in Play Master. Lizzie was our teach today so she had the opportunity to explain the rules to Mr. Dean and Ms. Alison. She did an excellent job using her oral communication skills and remembering all of the rules! This is such a great exercise for time management skills, number sense and numeracy, multiplication, time, problem solving, turn taking, oral communication skills, social skills, play skills, and creativity. Everyone had to decide who got to go first, how much time each student got in a 25 minute duration to lead their friends in play, and then choose which activities/ games they wanted to carry out.
Enjoy the long weekend everyone!
Mr. Jacob : )
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