Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Happy Wednesday Students, Parents, and Carers!

The day began with some of our friends in their integration programs, sensory diets, and participating in math ring toss 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. We had to also 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.

Math Ring Toss

Addition

Preparing Our Ghosts

Mr. Zachary was proud of his math test today! Great job Zach! : )

In two separate teams we got together to brainstorm what ghosts are, look like, what they can do, and where we see them. Next, we looked through our art lockers and grabbed various materials to make our ghosts in our groups. Our friends used two way oral communication skills, problem solving skills, abstract thinking skills, creative skills, fine motor skills, math skills, teamwork skills, and social skills.

In gym class today we played a few warm up games and then Scooter Dodge Ball. 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.

We continued our Cosmic Kids Yoga today during Mindfulness. All of our friends were so attentive, focused, determined, and calm while working on their breathing, body awareness and body mapping, and flexibility, core strength, and upper body strength.

Mr. Zachary was our teacher today and went over the month, date, day, year, weather, time, and feelings. 

Here are our friends going over our daily attendance.

Looking at time and space.

Calendar work

Mr. Zachary is busy checking his students' work.

Looking for supplies for our ghost game. 

As a group we created our very own game called Ghost Buster Hunt. We listed materials needed, rules, objectives, and discussed how to accommodate everyone's interests and ideas. Everyone did so well together using oral communication skills, turn taking, creative and abstract thinking, problem solving skills, complex communication skills, and math 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.

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) Wherever you are-in the kitchen, basement, garage, backyard, car, grocery store, bank, etc.-ask your child what if _____ starts or ends with a particular sound/digraph. For example, while in the car, ask your child what sound is after the /c/ sound. Answer would be /ar/ sound. You could also engage in rhymes, for example, what rhymes with 'wheel', 'seat', 'belt', etc.

Mr. Jacob : )