We began our day with integration, sensory diets, ring toss, journals and time work. 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. We continued to play the new version of ring toss that makes the math more difficult as well as the physical elements to enhance their gross motor, hand-eye coordination, and accuracy.
Creative Drawing
Ring Toss
Time Work
Journal Writing
As always we went over our Question Wheel and looked at different questioning techniques for Show & Tell. Everyone did a great job and used lots of inferencing, questioning and answering skills, oral communication, problem solving, scientific vocabulary, adjectives, and implemented the question wheel and the Five W's. This has been a work in progress as some of our friends do find it difficult to think about questions, why we chose a specific toy/object, how much time has gone by since I got the toy/object, etc. Show & Tell is very important for our students to make connections to times, places, and faces that occur in their world, and using all of our skills mentioned above. I also want to remind parents that Show & Tell is every Friday! : )
For Art today Ms. Jessica had rotaing fine motor skills activities relating to Christmas. We had to use fine motor skills, shapes and symmetry, abstract thinking skills, bilateral movements, symbolism, creativity, our sensory systems and individuality. Everyone did very well working almost solely independently.
Have a lovely weekend everyone! : )
HOMEWORK:
FOR PARENTS: Just to give parents some context for our second Christmas performance, the students chose this You Tube song on their own. We then made our own lyrics and everyone has been creating this together as a group! Here is the original song that we turned into our very own Christmas Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY7vcYvb69k. I just want to remind parents, this was not my song choice. The students were singing this song on their own for a week straight before I asked what it was. I still regret that decision to this day lol. : )
For Students:
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 and time 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 : )
IMPORTANT MESSAGE:
Hi everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that we are still collecting donations for our adopt a family program until the 14th of December! The donation boxes can be found in each classroom. Let's make the holidays great for this family.
Thank you for your support!
Josephine Ang Go
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