We began our day with integration, sensory diets, ring toss, play, and What's In The Box? Play is great for creativity, language arts and complex communication skills, abstract thinking, problem solving skills, inquiry and mathematics skills, role-play and drama, fine motor skills, teamwork, and social skills. 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- 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.
This morning we worked on time management, past, present, and future, and what happens over the course of one day, one week, one month, and one year! Mr. Zachary was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time, and feelings.
What's In The Box- What's In The Box utilizes language processing and comprehension, inferencing, questioning and answering skills, two-way communication, problem solving skills, abstract and symbolic thinking, complex communication, science and math skills, turn taking, and team work.
Before gym class we worked on our fine motor skills, letter formation and recognition, writing and phonics.
In gym class today we played a couple warm up games, a fun team building game, and then coloured octopus. 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.
Friends had to keep a ball on their cardboard without it falling off while in motion!
CLoured Octopus
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 phonics play. 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 collectively in both sessions.
After snack and recess we practiced our Christmas Play. Everyone remembered all of the dance moves and worked on timing and rhythm, gross motor skills, bilateral movements, auditory processing, and team work! After practice we played Freeze Tag and demonstrated auditory processing skills, gross motor skills, balance and coordination, social skills, and sportsmanship.
Lastly, we went over our Zones of Regulation and used different coloured blocks to symbolize how our day was, and how different times of the day went. We also got to share our own ideas and thoughts on how our day went, and took turns saying one nice thing about our friends from today's work.
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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