Tuesday January 31, 2017

Happy Tuesday Students, Parents, and Carers!

We began our day with integration, ring toss, sensory diets, and Floortime (play). 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. 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. 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. 

                                                            Spelling and Writing Word Scramble

Logo/Picture Design: Math, Language, Creativity, Fine Motor Skills, Creativity, Abstract Thinking

Mr. Carter was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time, and feelings.

In gym today the students played a couple warm up games then voted on soccer. All activities challenged the students auditory processing skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.

In Mindfulness today we practiced being calm, still, and focusing on our breathing and heart beat. All of our friends were so attentive, focused, determined, and calm while working on their breathing, body awareness and body mapping, regulation, and flexibility.

Today was our second gymnastics session.  The boys demonstrated excellent patience, listening skills, and movements in gymnastics today. We worked on our balance and coordination, proprioceptive, vestibular, and bilateral movements, sportsmanship, gross motor skills, visual spatial skills and motor planning.

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.

Have a great evening! Mr. Jacob : )

HOMEWORK:

1. To brainstorm ideas about different countries, print out facts (e.g. food, dress, music, landscape, animals, etc.) and be ready to discuss our cultural market theme.

2. Think about what we can do for our Talent Show on February 23rd!

Monday January 30, 2017

Happy Monday Students, Parents, and Carers!

We began our day with integration, sensory diets, and partner play/team building. 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 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. 

                               Carter researching his ghost train and using his language arts skills.

Play

Mr. Zachary was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time, and feelings.

In gym today we played hockey. Teachers challenged the students' auditory processing skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.

In Mindfulness today we practiced being calm, still, and focusing on our breathing and heart beat. All of our friends were so attentive, focused, determined, and calm while working on their breathing, body awareness and body mapping, regulation, and flexibility.

We began the afternoon with some quiet time (shoe lace tying and creative play-doh for fine motor skills), and then we participated in a hands-on rhyming drumming session with Ms. Andrea's class. Students worked on turn taking, language arts skills, math skills, social skills, and time and rhythm. 

Sensory Break

Drumming

In the sensory gym we worked on our hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, math, time, phonics and rhyming skills, and balance and coordination. Today we used our practice clock, phonics box, rhyming games, and two-digit addition and subtraction while in the gym!

Reflection

Lastly, we went over a sentence on the board and our Zones of Regulation, and we 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. The boys worked as a team to fix Mr. Jacob's sentence aand answer the question with prompting and scaffolding.

Have a great evening!

HOMEWORK:

To brainstorm ideas about different countries, print out facts (e.g. food, dress, music, landscape, animals, etc.) and be ready to discuss our cultural market theme.

Friday January 27, 2017

Happy Friday Students, Parents, and Carers!

We began our day with integration, sensory diets, partner play/team building, and Show & Tell. 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. 

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 Mr. Dean had creative fine motor skills activity relating to animals. 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.

In gym today the students played Ghostbuster Awesomeness Tag (I did not name it lol). This game challenged the students auditory processing skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.

Here are some great pictures fromSuper Hero Day!

Other pictures entailing great individual work in math, language, science, creativity, social skills, and abstract thinking.

Math, Language, Sequencing, Fine Motor Skills, Creativity

Social Skills, Language Arts, Time, Math, Emotions, Problem Solving

Printing, Phonics, Sentence Formation, Word Association

Time, Math, Team Work, Abstract Thinking, Complex Communication, Social and Life Skills

Play, Social Skills, Team Work

Math, Language, Creativity, Fine Motor Skills, Creativity, Abstract Thinking

Printing, Phonics, Sentence Formation, Word Association

Time, Math, Team Work, Abstract Thinking, Complex Communication, Social and Life Skills

Visual Storytelling, Descriptive Language, Social Skills, Memory Skills, Visual Spatial Skills

Have a great weekend!

HOMEWORK:

To brainstorm ideas about different countries, print out facts (e.g. food, dress, music, landscape, animals, etc.) and be ready to discuss our cultural market theme.

Mr. Jacob