Monday, February 27, 2017

Happy Monday Parents, Carers, and Students!


We began our day with integration, sensory diets, Floortime (child-led play), and a discussion to plan a Field Trip. 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. 

Here we are using our social skills, two-way communication skills, complex language, abstract thinking, problem solving, math skills, reading and spelling skills, and team work skills to discuss a Field Trip to Chuck E Cheese's!

We also talked about our Cultural Market and began to prepare for it. Students used their creativity, fine motor skills, abstract thinking, two-way communication, problem solving, language and math skills. Avery was making Japanese Pikachu origami, and Carter was fixing his Jamaican truck.

In gym today we played a fun team building game, as well as a tag game. We 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.

After lunch we had some relation/regulation time before we got into two groups to make a rhyming rap song with drums. The boys used social skills, team building skills, life skills, problem solving skills, fine motor skills, math skills, complex and abstract thinking skills, and two-way communication skills. This was a challenging activity but we worked on lots of great goals and emotions throughout the session.

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!

Lastly, we went over our Zones of Regulation and discussed our busy day! We 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:

 Find a fun science experiment (and print out the instructions) to do at school with my peers for this week.