Avery, Sander, and Ojani played some Olympic Ring Toss and used their fine and gross motor skills, visual spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, turn taking, sportsmanship, and math skills.
Afterwards we made an obstacle diet for our morning exercise. The boys used their communication skills, problem solving over what activities to do, and their gross motor, bilateral, vestibular and proprioceptive movements to help regulate their bodies.
And they're off!
Here we are completing our journal writing with proper sentence structure and letter formation.
A proud Ms. Elizabeth : )
In gym class today we played several auditory processing, counting, team building, and active games with the school's parachute. It was so much fun and 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.
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 today I overheard some students talking about odd and even numbers. There were some discrepancies with what is and is not an odd number. I therefore decided to have a look at what odd and even means, and how we know that a number is odd or even. This was followed by a conversation on what 'morning', 'afternoon', 'evening', and 'night' mean, and how we know using time and the sun and moon.
Mr. Ojani was our teacher today and went over the month, date, day, year, weather, time, and feelings. We did not complete our morning circle until the afternoon as our morning was so busy!
Here we are completing our calendar.
After our calendar work we decided to play a fun and active team building game called Island Hopping in the sensory gym. Students worked together 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, math skills, abstract and complex thinking/communication, oral communication skills, gross motor skills, and motor planning.
After our fun activity we had our first Boys Club with friends from SJA. It was a little chaotic as we had too many friends from SJA, so we will be splitting up the group into three. We did, however, have a blast playing a Name Game and Freeze Dance with SJA.
After some lengthy social problem solving with a few of our friends, we played a fun animal action game that involved our mental math skills. We had to walk around the Zoo (auditorium) like specific animals, and if you got caught you had to go back to your pen (the bench) and answer a math question in order to be free again!
Have a great evening everyone!
HOMEWORK:
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 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).
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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