Wednesday January 17, 2017

Happy Wednesday Students, Parents, and Carers!

We began our day with sensory diets, ring toss, play, and journal writing. 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. 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. Journal writing utilizes proper sentence structure, writing, spelling, grammar, phonics, fine motor skills and creativity.

                                                                         Ring Toss

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

Journal Writing

In gym class today we played Band Aid Tag, Dodgeball, and Shark Attack with the parachute. 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 the afternoon we engaged in a team building exercise where students had to build, measure, and work together in order to construct Portugal's Vasco da Gama bridge. Everyone used their math skills, language skills, fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, creativity, and social skills.

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!

At the end of the day we continued working on our bridges.

Have a great evening!

HOMEWORK:

To search PORTUGAL on the computer and print off or write down a fact about the country, and then print out a picture (e.g. food, dress, music, landscape, animals, etc.

Mr. Jacob :)