Mr. Eric was our teacher and went over the month, date, day, year, weather, time, and feelings.
Today was our first integration gym period with St. Jude's Academy. Our students participated with Mr. H's Grade 2/ 3 class, which had many familiar faces from last year! Students played a different variation of Capture the Flag today, with the emphasis on strategic planning, motor planning, team work, and social problem solving. Everyone did very well and we had a nice conversation about what we liked and disliked about the period. It was almost all positive except for the fact that there are more students to participate and compete with.
Before snack and recess we had 15 minutes to play "What's In The Bag?" 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.
After snack and recess we looked at all of the different countries where our families originated. We have a diverse group and it was neat seeing all of the beautiful countries and flags. Everyone also utilized their fine motor skills by using a ruler, their artistic skills, and scissors to make the flags.
The afternoon began with two different math groups. We had one group look at two-digit addition problems using numbers up to 100. Our friends got to use manipulatives (counting blocks) and tens and ones blocks. We looked at regrouping, tens and ones columns, and how to solve addition problems independently as possible. The other group participated in the TGTS "Mimic a Design" activity involving visual spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, geometry, and number sense and numeracy.
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.
Our last two activities entailed a Team Building session, and a Reading Comprehension/ Auditory Processing session. For the team building session, students had to use directional, cardinal, and prepositional language to guide their blind-folded partner through an obstacle course. This game is great for visual spatial and motor planning, gross motor skills, oral language and communication skills, auditory processing, social skills, team work, and sportsmanship. All of our students also displayed reading comprehension, oral language skills, phonics, phonemics, phonemics, and auditory processing while reading short stories and answering questions about the characters, what happened in the story, the setting, etc.
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!
Mr. Jacob : )
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