As is the norm lately, we began the day with integration, sensory diets, ring toss and play time. Play is so important for creativity, language arts and communication skills, mathematics skills, role-play and drama, fine motor skills, teamwork, and social skills. Ring toss is a great tool to work on our fine and gross motor skills, visual spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, turn taking, sportsmanship, and math skills. Afterwards we also played Freeze Dance and musical chairs, which are great activities to regulate our bodies, keep us active, and practice our body awareness, mapping & planning, gross motor skills, bilateral movements, sportsmanship, and auditory processing skills.
Math Ring Toss- counting by 3's, 4's, 5's, 7's, 9's, 10's and 20's.
Sensory Diet
Freeze Dance and Musical Chairs
Next, we participated in a Minute to Win It relay race. We got into two teams and had to use our fine motor skills, bilateral movements, visual spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, math skills, teamwork and sportsmanship. It was a lot of fun and everyone did very well independently!
Here we are completing our daily attendance sheets while Mr. Sander was the teacher. He went over time, months, weeks, days, date, weather, and feelings.
As always we went over our Question Wheel and looked at different questioning techniques for Show & Tell. Everyone did a great job and 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. This has been a work in progress as some of our friends do find it difficult to think about questions, why we chose a specific toy/object, how much time has gone by since I got the toy/object, etc. Show & Tell is very important for our students to make connections to times, places, and faces that occur in their world., and using all of our skills mentioned above. I also want to remind parents that Show & Tell is every Friday! : )
After snack and recess, it was time for Art. Mr. Dean coordinated art today. The first task was for the students to get themselves into pairs, and then find a spot in the auditorium away from other groups. Next, the teacher at each group was given a picture to verbally explain to the students without showing them the picture. This auditory processing exercise (also called a Barrier Activity) is very useful and can be done at home too. Teachers used a lot of descriptive language, rather then indicating specific shapes etc, to help the students think more critically about the picture they were drawing. The first image was of a few shapes and lines. The second picture was more challenging, being a house, made of a square, a triangle on top, and a semi circle for the door.
The next challenge was for the students to draw their own pictures and verbally explain it to their peers. This was much more challenging as they had to think of their own descriptive language to explain what they drew. Once group had an excellent problem solving session to try to determine who was actually going to go first. When they couldn't come to a conclusion, two of their peers drew a picture about how they thought the other group could solve it. Even though they didn't come to a solution, they both stuck with the problem and used their words very well!
Working in pairs or groups of three.
Sensory Break
Social Problem Solving
Have a lovely weekend and we shall see everyone Monday! Just a reminder, Tuesday is our Field Trip, Wednesday we will be going to No Frill's in the afternoon, and Friday we do not have school!
Mr. Jacob : )
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