We began our day by playing different variations of Hot Potato with a weighted ball and music. Friends had to pass the ball around in a circle, but when they heard the music stop they had to change the direction of the passing. We then played regular Hot Potato and Freeze Dance. These morning exercises are great for regulation, auditory processing skills, teamwork, social skills, sportsmanship, motor planning, body mapping, sequencing, core strength, gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.
Afterwards some of our friends had integration while two friends participated in a Math Toothpick Puzzles team build, and another two friends completed work in their phonics books for the /ch/ sound. We all needed some verbal prompts but did very well with our phonics skills, oral communication, spelling, visual spatial skills, fine motor skills, math skills, abstract thinking and problem solving skills.
Here we are completing our daily attendance and calendar work sheets.
Mr. Avery was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time, and feelings.
In gym class today we played a couple warm up games and then Coloured Octopus and Doctor Dodgeball. 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.
To start off our afternoon we discussed, acted out, listened to and read, as well as sequenced a fun Pokemon story that Mr. Dean created. Everyone used their auditory processing skills, reading and listening skills, 5 Finger Retell Model skills, team work skills, math skills, and complex communication and abstract thinking skills. The story was about a fast and slow Pokemon racing one another, and about winning, losing, sportsmanship, and the down side of being too cocky.
Here we are acting out and sequencing our story as a class.
Our last activity of the day we continued to discuss, research, and look at the scientific method to come up with our own question(s) to test/investigate. We also went over all of our materials, what we will need, how we can test our hypotheses, and ideas for design and development. Two of friends did not want to do their science experiments and worked on JUMP Math money work sheets! Great job by all : )
Doing some science research on You Tube!
Creating and designing our projects.
JUMP Math money skills.
NEWS: All Art Reach forms and payment of $15.00 must be returned by Friday, November 18th, which is also SHOW AND TELL!
HOMEWORK TIPS:
(1) Discuss and research 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.
*** 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, but the amount we figured out as a class is $4.00 per student). Or, your child can rake the leaves, clean the washroom, do laundry, etc. We need the money for Monday, November 21, 2016 as we are going to No Frill's on Tuesday, November 22, 2016.
Mr. Jacob : )
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