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.
We also played two different word association/phonics/rhyming games that also utilized our balance and coordination, core strength, fine and gross motor skills, visual spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, proprioceptive and bilateral movements, and turn taking.
Word Association/ Heavy Lifting Game
Core and Upper Body Strength Rhyming and Phonics Game
We also used our gross motor skills, bilateral movements, language arts skills, and time and rhythm to practice our Christmas songs in front of our peers!
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 are two of our friends cleaning up a mess in the lunch room.
The afternoon began with another Christmas practice! 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.
After the Christmas play we engaged in some partner play and much needed sensory breaks! Everyone also corrected Mr. Jacob's message on the board by using team work and turn taking, and showing off their spelling, grammar, punctuation, and language skills.
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. We then played "Two Truths and One Lie" with Mr. Jacob. Friends had to guess what statement was made up and what ones were true about Mr. Jacob! : )
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 , time, and number sense and numeracy (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) 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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