We began our sunny Monday with sensory diets, science, and visual spatial games from our workshop on Friday.
The two visual spatial games are great to work on our fine and gross motor skills, visual spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, turn taking, sportsmanship, and math skills. Sensory diets are so important for regulation, 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. Science is important for creativity, language arts and communication skills, mathematics skills, abstract thinking and complex communication, fine motor skills, problem solving skills.
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Freeze Dance- is great to regulate our bodies, keep us active, and practice our body awareness, mapping & planning, gross motor skills, bilateral movements, sportsmanship, and auditory processing skills.
This is a Visual Spatial activity called Wall Walks utilizing bilateral movements, gross motor skills, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, speed, body awareness, and crossing the midline.
The second Visual Spatial activity was called the Stroop Chart. Students had to say the colour of the word, not the actual word while jumping. For example, blue, red, black, and green. Students had to say green, blue, red, and black NOT blue, red, black, and green. Great for reading skills, visual spatial, gross motor and body awareness, math skills, visual tracking, and bilateral movements.
Here we are reading and editing Mr. Jacob's morning message. Everyone worked so well together using their spelling, grammar, punctuation, phonics, reading skills, and team work and social skills!
Mr. Eric was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time, and feelings.
In gym class today we played some games similar to Octopus and then Scooter Dodgeball. It was so much fun and everyone demonstrated great upper body strength, core strength, teamwork, social skills, social problem solving skills, sportsmanship, motor planning, body mapping, sequencing, gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.
In Mindfulness today we went over a fun Harry Potter yoga video from Cosmic Kids Yoga. All of our friends were so attentive, focused, determined, and calm while working on their breathing, body awareness and body mapping and flexibility.
Our afternoon began with Music Therapy, where our friends get to express themselves through and with music, as well as use their fine motor skills to explore and play different instruments. While one group was in music, the other group continued working on their science projects. Everyone did need some support from staff, but we worked on creativity, language arts and communication skills, mathematics skills, abstract thinking and complex communication, fine motor skills, problem solving skills.
At the end of the day we continued our experiments, tests, findings, and worked on our science boards! Thursday is our Science Fair and parents can come and see all of our hard work between 1-3!
HOMEWORK:
To go over some of our favourite items/toys/clothes/photos/etc. and take a photo of them, develop the photos (Walmart has instant printing for 10 cents a photo), put them in a scrap book, and then write the date and year you got them, why, from where, from who, what it is, etc. During our Show & Tell all of us are having difficulties putting a specific place and time on our objects. Keeping a scrap book (journal log) of our items, toys, and memories will help us make connections, links, and begin to comprehend time and make the connections between past, present, and future events in our lives. This should be an ongoing project for the remainder of the year and then can continue on throughout the following years as well! Have fun with it and get creative!
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. You can also have your child create their own picture story book using the 5-Finger Retell Model.
Mr. Jacob : )
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