The day began with some of our friends in their integration programs, while the rest of us participated in math ring toss, Go Noodle dancing, and team building. We worked on our fine and gross motor skills, visual spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, turn taking, sportsmanship, and math skills. Students also had to work together in order to create, design, and build their own buildings with various recyclable materials and art supplies. We had to use our two way oral communication skills, problem solving skills, abstract thinking skills, creative skills, fine motor skills, math skills, teamwork skills, and social skills.
When we were all back together as a class, Mr. Sander, Mr. Ojani, and Mr. Zachary showed us some photos and told their friends about the cross country meet on Friday. They did so well and had a blast despite the wet and cold weather. Way to go boys!
Here we are all practicing our new printing work sheets. These work sheets go over the entire alphabet, and the proper steps required in order to form each individual letter. Today we practiced the capital letter A.
In gym class today we played a fan favourite Colour Octopus. It was so much fun and everyone demonstrated great auditory processing skills, teamwork, social skills, sportsmanship, motor planning, body mapping, sequencing, gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.
During our "Mindfulness" session today we worked on calming exercises, deep breathing, stretching, auditory processing, and regulation while watching Cosmic Kids Yoga "Star Wars"!
After lunch we took turns joining our friends for a fun session led by Ms. Josephine. She had a fun hands-on, creative arts questioning game similar to I Spy. Students used their creative skills, fine motor skills, categorization skills, math skills, and language and questioning skills to play this fun activity. While half of us engaged in Ms. Josephine's activity, the other half had Music Therapy, and then we swapped so each group got to complete both sessions.
In the sensory gym we had a social problem that unravelled and spent the entire session going over our emotions, feelings, and ways to solve the problem and then prevent it from happening again.
The last activity of the day was spent on going over our cooking focus. We looked at the recipes we had, who should go first, the ingredients that we need, what grocery store to go to, and how much money and how to get the money. Everyone was very excited to start our discussion on cooking and to get out in the community and then cook some of our favourite meals and snacks!
HOMEWORK TIPS:
1) Work on two and three-digit addition and subtraction questions, whether you write down some questions for your child, or use math to cook, clean, set the table, do chores, play games, create a game, etc.
2) Discuss good and poor sportsmanship. Use examples and pictures, videos, role-play, etc. Also, discuss big/medium/small problems and have your child make a chart showing where they think specific incidents should fall under.
3) Spend 15 minutes reading a book of your child's choice, a cartoon, instructions, recipe, comic strip, etc. Make reading fun, engaging, an adventure, and not a boring chore.
4) Have your child come up with their own creative action game involving rules, a points system, and number of players. Your child can name the game and write down the rules, and then orally explain the game to family members.
Mr. Jacob : )
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