We began our rainy Wednesday with sensory diets, freeze dance, integration, ring toss, 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. 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.
Freeze Dance- auditory processing, body awareness, mapping, and control, gross motor skills, creativity, and fun!
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. Afterwards some of us had the time to begin writing letters to Santa!
(Mr. Jacob was busy playing not taking photos lol)
Letters to Santa- spelling, grammar, phonics, punctuation, writing, fine motor skills, language processing, and creative thinking.
Getting ready to bust some moves!
Solo!!!!
In gym class today we played a great game that the students made up: Dodgeball-Coloured Octopus-Pac Man Tag. 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.
Two of our friends did not want to participate, so they worked on their time skills (JUMP Math).
In the afternoon we prepared and helped cook Eric's Yellow Rice dish. We worked on measurement, division, fractions, number sense and numeracy, fine motor skills, turn taking, life skills, health and safety, independent skills, social skills, and team work.
***I apologize for the lack of photos, my phone died immediately after this picture : (
Finally...we dine! (check out the look of anticipation lol)
Mr. Eric serving his peers.
At 2:00 p.m. today our school put on a rehearsal performance for one of our students' family who is in another class. They will not be here next week so we wanted to give them the opportunity to see all of our hard work!
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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