We began our cold Thursday with sensory diets, freeze dance, ring toss, integration, and play.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.
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.
Mr. Ojani and Mr. Carter engaged in some great problem solving and life skills by trying to empty out the vacuum cleaner, fix the vacuum part that was clogged with excess hair, paper, and dirt, and then clean our classroom from last night's party!
Here is Mr. Carter pretending to be Mr. Jacob!
Mr. Avery was also pretending to be Mr. Jacob.
"I shall call him, mini me!"lol
Avery in 23 years! haha
Here we are creating our own story about an ice dragon and an old man (a.k.a. Mr. Jacob). Apparently you are automatically considered "old" if you have crutches lol. The students created a title, setting, characters, and story line with some support and demonstrated great social skills, language skills, creativity and teamwork.
Mr. Eric and Mr. Ojani were working on their spelling, grammar, and punctuation skills by creating full sentences in their journals!
Mr. Carter is using his fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, abstract thinking, problem solving, and creativity to make a ghost train!
Some fun (yet extremely cold) recess tobogganing fun!
In gym class we started off playing Ro Sham Bo, then played a new creative game that Mr. Jacob came up with utilizing team work skills. It was so much fun and everyone demonstrated 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 relaxing video that had cool patterns and different coloured images. 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 our friends wanted to participate in a team building session! We got into two equal groups and came up with two different things to build: a ghost train, and a robot. The boys worked through social problem solving and problem solving while demonstrating complex communication skills, two way communication, math, science, and language skills, fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, bilateral movements, team work, abstract thinking and creativity.
For the last activity of the day we participated in a fun creative language arts session. Students had to choose between three characters: a scientist, elf, or a sore owner. Next, students had to explain what they would make and why? The price and explain why? How does it work and what does it do? Everyone needed support with spelling and proper sentence structure, but did well using their creativity and language arts skills.
Here are some great photos from yesterday's performance! I am so so proud of everyone and I could not be happier with the amazing performance that our class out on! Way to go and they should be so proud!Our class used our gross motor skills, bilateral movements, language arts skills, and time and rhythm to practice and perform our Christmas songs in front of our peers!
Ojani and Sander's performance
Back stage excitement!
Eric's solo
Grand Finale
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 , 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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