We began our Tuesday with sensory diets, integration, play, and Christmas dancing! 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 also important for creativity, language arts and communication skills, mathematics skills, role-play and drama, fine motor skills, teamwork, and social skills. Mr. Carter made his very own Pixar lamp with various materials during play!
Here we are using our gross motor skills, bilateral movements, language arts skills, and time and rhythm to practice our Christmas song, as well as create lyrics for our new song!
After our Christmas practice we had some time to play freeze dance!
Here we are using our creativity, language arts skills, spelling and writing, and story telling knowledge to make our own comic strips.
Mr. Eric was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time, and feelings.
Here is Mr. Eric helping his friends solve a problem on the bean bag.
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.
Here is Mr. Carter helping Mr. Jacob clean up the playground and parking lot. Great job Mr. Carter!
1....2....3.....THROW!
In the afternoon Ms. Josephine led the students in a fun creative arts activity. Each student got their own canvas and long piece of tape. They then had to rip the tape up and create a picture using as many pieces as they wanted. Next, we painted over the entire canvas using various colours. Finally, when the paint was a bit dry, we peeled it off to reveal our cool creations! Everyone did this independently, and used their fine motor skills, creative art skills, math skills, and abstract and symbolic thought skills!
Clean up time! (team work, fine motor skills, life skills, communication skills, responsibility and autonomy)
In the sensory gym we worked on our hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, math, time, phonics and rhyming skills, and balance and coordination. Today we used our practice clock, phonics box, rhyming games, and two-digit addition and subtraction while in the gym!
Thinking about our rhymes and phonics.
Time
Our last activity of the day was choosing time. We have all done so much hard work in our integration sessions, sensory diets, cooking classes, and with our science projects, so we had play time. Play is so important for creativity, language arts and communication skills, mathematics skills, role-play and drama, fine motor skills, teamwork, life skills and social skills.
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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