We began our day with integration, sensory diets, and Floortime (child-led 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. 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.
Here is Avery making a Japanese Fan and Pikachu Origami.
Ojani practicing his spelling work with Ms. Rebecca.
Eric showing off his Chinese origami swans.
Carter making his Jamaican toy truck.
Mr. Dean and Avery completing their Pikachu origami.
Ojani showing off his spelling test! Great work Ojani! : )
In gym today we played a couple fun Dodgeball games that 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.
Our friends worked together to solve a fun scavenger hunt/team building activity. Students had to use their social problem solving skills, two-way communication, abstract thinking, visual spatial skills, sequencing skills, math skills, science skills, and sportsmanship and team work.
(Mr. Jacob was too busy filming to take any more photos. Sorry!)
Lastly, we went over our Zones of Regulation and discussed our favourite things about the 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.
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!
3. Bring in a photo capturing something you did on the weekend, along with a scrapbook to make a visual diary.
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