As is the norm lately, we began the day with integration, sensory diets, play and math 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 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.
Math Ring Toss- counting by 3's, 4's, 5's, 7's, 8's, 9's, 10's and 20's.
Play
Our morning exercise was Freeze Dance, which is a great activity to regulate our bodies, keep us active, and practice our body awareness, mapping & planning skills, gross motor skills, bilateral movements, auditory processing skills, and sportsmanship (getting out and winning and losing gracefully).
Ms. Elizabeth was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time, and feelings.
Before snack and recess we got to visit and explore a very cool and informative World War One exhibit in the auditorium with classes from SJA. We looked at old guns, muskets, shells, clothes, gas masks, helmets, plates and cutlery, money, medals, pictures, newspaper articles, food, music, and more! Our class was so excited and had a great time trying on the uniforms, and touching all of the equipment and weapons associated with World War One!
The only time guns are acceptable at school! Haha
A very excited bunch!
Gas mask
General and Foot Soldier
More guns...
Fake grenade
In the navy!
Our nurse
Another cool gas mask
Our friend Eric is helping out his peer tie his shoes!
In gym class today we played a numbers warm up game and Numbers Octopus Tag. It was so much fun and everyone demonstrated great auditory processing skills, 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 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.
After lunch we participated in a Team Building activity: The Boat Challenge. Our teams had to work together to make a boat that (a) floats, and (b) can hold the most weight. We got into three teams and had to use our fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, math skills (number sense and numeracy, estimation, and weight), creative art skills, science skills, teamwork and sportsmanship. It was a lot of fun and everyone did very well!
Team Carter and Lizzie
Team Ojani and Sander
Team Avery, Eric, and Zachary
Hypotheses and Testing
Final Product!
The Pirate Ship
We then looked at all of our prices and observations from yesterday's No Frill's trip. We had to use our measurement skills, money skills, numbers sense and numeracy (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), social skills, life skills, oral communication skills, complex communication skills, and problem solving skills. In the end our total cost for Sander's Salmon will be $22.45! Bargain shoppers we are!
Carter wanted better deals lol.
One of our friends looked at, discussed, researched, and looked at the scientific method to come up with his own question to test/investigate with Mr. Dean. He also went over what a hypothesis is, what materials he will need, how he can test his hypothesis, and ideas for design and development. I am very excited to see the end result! : )
REMINDER: THERE IS NO SCHOOL TOMORROW! WOOHOO
HOMEWORK TIPS:
(1) Discuss, research, design, create, test, etc. things for your science experiment.
(2) 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.
(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. You can also have your child create their own picture story book using the 5-Finger Retell Model.
(4) Have your child look at a recipe, find/go out and buy the ingredients, prepare the meal, cook the meal, serve the meal, set the table, and clean up! This can be a great learning experience for all areas of mathematics, as well as life skills, fine motor skills, social skills, independent skills, confidence, and health and nutrition. If you want, students can do these jobs and earn some allowance to help fund our own cooking classes at school. This is entirely up to you, and the amount can be whatever you desire/think is appropriate (I would think $1-$10 is plenty depending on what they do/complete).
Have a great long weekend!
Mr. Jacob : )
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