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.
Go Noodle Sensory Break
Mr. Avery was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time (past, present/now, future), and feelings.
This morning in the auditorium we had a lovely visit from the Earth Rangers! This organization works to protect Canadian animals from extinction. They had a great interactive powerpoint and video, AND they even brought in a couple animals! These included a lizard, a bald eagle, a lemur and a hawk. The students were very excited and participated very well by sitting and waiting patiently, answering questions and commenting on different things they earned about each animal with support.
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 a discussion on rules for freeze tag. There was a small social problem so we decided to talk about it, take a vote, then conduct a survey to see what our friends in other classes thought. Afterwards, 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.
Math Survey
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!
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 and answer the question with prompting and scaffolding.
Have a great evening!
Mr. Jacob : )
HOMEWORK:
To read over our Term 2 goals and homework as a family, and bring in a picture (of something that you did on the weekend or will be doing this week) and scrapbook for our visual memory project.
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