The began with some of our friends attending their integration classes, while the rest of us got active with a fun obstacle course to regulate our bodies. Everyone demonstrated great auditory processing skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, social skills, sportsmanship, motor planning, body mapping, sequencing, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.
Mr. Sander was our teacher today and went over the month, date, day, year, weather, time, and feelings.
In math today we went over time, and days, weeks, and months. We had to use our sequencing skills, number sense and numeracy, logical communication skills, and writing skills.
Here is Carter using counting cubes (unifix cubes) to figure out how many more days until Halloween.
Elizabeth and Sander working hard on their math work sheets.
Mr. Avery focused and doing a great job!
Mr. Carter is in the zone!
You could hear crickets they're so quiet!
Everyone did very well in gym class playing a couple games involving their auditory processing skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, social skills, sportsmanship, motor planning, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.
During our "Mindfulness" today we worked on calming exercises, deep breathing, stretching, auditory processing, and regulation. Afterwards, we went on a magical journey through a forest, river, climbed snowy mountains, listened to birds and the sound of leaves and waves, while listening to a relaxing narrative and being exposed to sensory stimuli.
In the afternoon we decided to play a fun and active team building game called Island Fishing. Students were in groups of threes, and had to stand on their life boats (rafts made of two connecting foam pieces). Students had to connect their hands together to extend out into the ocean and collect as many fish as possible. If they broke their hand connection, a shark or sharks, could eat them up. Students who were eaten became sharks as well. Teams could also move their life boats by disconnecting the foam mats and then move them in other areas of the ocean. If the entire team left their life rafts then a shark could eat them up, and the whole team would be disqualified. The game ended when all of the fish were caught, and both teams counted how many fish they had. This was a great game for team work, social skills, problem solving, abstract and complex thinking/communication, oral communication skills, gross motor skills, and motor planning.
We decided that we needed more ocean and obstacles so headed to the sensory gym!
Our last activity was a fun auditory processing math game. Students started off in pairs, then completed the task individually. Mr. Jacob read out 4-6 instructions outlining specific details students needed in order to create their own monster picture. For example, "Your monster must have 1 sphere body that is red, four purple eyes, 5 blue octopus legs, and 2 triangular eyes." Everyone did well practicing their auditory processing, memory and recall, shapes, colours, and numbers, and team work skills!
Have a great evening and remember, TOMORROW IS SHOW AND TELL.
HOMEWORK TIPS:
1) Play the monster picture game at home and get creative! Other great Barrier Games similar to that one can be found at: https://www.superduperinc.com/handouts/pdf/228_BarrierGames.pdf, and https://www.talkingmatters.com.au/information/downloads/barrier-games.
2) Discuss/read/create a story (fiction or non-fiction) and use the 5 Finger Retelling Method:
3) 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.
4) Discuss what nouns, adjectives, and verbs are by making a visual sentence using pictures from magazines, drawings, etc. and words. Example: The BOAT (cut out a picture of a boat for the noun) SAILs (use a picture of a sail for the verb) out into the DEEP, BLUE water (use a picture of something deep and blue for the adjectives). Have your child also write out the sentence (s).
5) 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.
Mr. Jacob : )
No comments:
Post a Comment