We began our sunny Monday with sensory diets, integration, play, math ring toss, and Blokus. Blokus is a great game for turn taking, abstract and creative thinking, complex communication, problem solving, math skills, fine motor skills, oral communication and sportsmanship. 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. 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. Play is so important for creativity, language arts and communication skills, mathematics skills, role-play and drama, fine motor skills, teamwork, and social skills.
Mr. Carter had some fun with Ms. Liz and other peers in the auditorium. They played musical chairs and demonstrated auditory processing skills, gross motor skills, balance and coordination, math skills, social skills, and sportsmanship.
Before snack and recess we drew a picture of something we did this weekend, and then created and wrote a sentence about it! Our friends needed some help with spelling, but everyone did well practicing their writing, spelling, and language skills.
Sensory breaks are great for regulation, physical exercise, gross motor skills, body planning and mapping, bilateral movements, and for our vestibular and proprioceptive needs.
In gym class today we played a few games with the parachute, and then European Hand Ball. 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 participated in a barrier activity. Everyone did need some support from staff, but we worked on auditory processing, language and communication skills, mathematics skills, abstract thinking and complex communication, directional and positional language, prepositions, fine motor skills, and problem solving skills.
At the every end of the day we used our gross motor skills, bilateral movements, and time and rhythm to practice our Christmas Play songs!
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.
Work on money skills at home and out in the community. Have your child make their own shop, store, etc. at home using real items/foods. Price out items, look online for comparable prices, and then use real money (5 cents to 2 dollar coins) to make specific amounts, for example, have your child show you how to make $1.80 out of nickels, dimes, and quarters.
Mr. Jacob : )
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