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!