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.