As is the norm lately, we began the day with integration, sensory diets, and ring toss. 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
Math Ring Toss
We all decided to play "What If" today as a small group. This game is great for oral communication skills, team building social problem solving, life skills, abstract and symbolic thinking, complex communication skills, and two way conversations. The group was given a photo that contained a problem- what would you do if you were on the toilet and there was no toilet paper? We had some very creative insight and problem solving discussions for this problem, both at home and out in the community (e.g. at a field trip, movie theatre, etc.)
Afterwards we played Freeze Dance as we were sitting for 20 full minutes during What If! 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.
Mr. Avery was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time, and feelings.
Before gym we all practiced our fine motor skills by tying shoes! We had to take our time and show great focus and concentration and some of us did need physical prompting and support, but we all did a great job!
In gym class today we took a vote and everyone wanted to play Ro Sham Bo! 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.
In Mindfulness today we went over two calming and deep breathing yoga videos. All of our friends were so attentive, focused, determined, and calm while working on their breathing, body awareness and body mapping, and flexibility.
In the afternoon we had Music Therapy and worked on Sander's recipe for Wednesday. We all demonstrated fine motor skills and letter formation, sentence structure and punctuation, oral communication skills, life skills, and turn taking, creativity, abstract and symbolic thinking, and bilateral movements in music therapy.
Writing out Sander's recipe.
Using pictures for our ingredient list.
Sensory Breaks- worked on regulation team work, sportsmanship, gross motor skills, bilateral movements, balance and coordination, hand-eye coordination, visual spatial skills, body awareness, mapping, and planning.
Someone is a little tired now lol.
For our last work period of the day we had four different activities going on. Three students wanted to make paper airplanes together and then test them to see how far they went by using metre sticks; another friend wanted to work on his SJA sentence writing; one friend wanted to complete math work sheets on time; and our last friend wanted to complete a journal. We were all so busy completing our own choices but having fun! We worked on writing and spelling, proper sentence structure, time, number sense and numeracy, measurement, team building, turn taking, oral communication skills, and sportsmanship.
Working on our sentence formation.
Building paper planes together.
Testing and measuring our paper planes.
Time work sheets (one of our friends needed some space and relaxation time before asking and completing his work sheets).
Journal Writing
Have a wonderful evening friends and do not forget that tomorrow is our Field Trip!
REMINDERS: Wear weather appropriate clothes as we will be outside all day.
Please pack a cold lunch for the trip.
We will be leaving promptly at 9:15 a.m.
Mr. Jacob : )
HOMEWORK TIPS:
1) Work on two and three-digit addition and subtraction questions, as well as multiplication and division 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, divide using coins and prices for things they are interested in, etc.
2) 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.
3) Wherever you are in the kitchen, basement, garage, backyard, car, grocery store, bank, etc.ask your child does _____ start or end 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.
4) Look over family recipes and have your child set the table, get the groceries, make the food, and clean the dishes once this week with as little support as possible!
Mr. Jacob : )
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