Thursday, February 23, 2017

Happy Thursday Parents, Carers, and Students!


We began our day with integration, sensory diets, Floortime (child-led play), and Talent Show rehearsal. 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. Sander made Norwegian trolls and Carter a Jamaican Locomotive! 

                                    

                                                             Talent Show Rehearsal

Mr. Eric was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time (past, present/now, future), and feelings.

                                                Getting mentally prepared for the big audition!!!

In gym today we played soccer baseball! 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 rockets and have some fun with science. The boys used social skills, team building skills, life skills, scientific language and problem solving skills, fine motor skills, math skills, complex and abstract thinking skills, and two-way communication skills.

Alka-Seltzer Film Canister Rockets/ Mentos and Coke Geyser (Mr. Jacob was too busy participating and filming to take outdoor photos, sorry!) 

        At the end of the day we had a party to celebrate Mr. Avery's and Mr. Ojani's birthdays!!!!!

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:

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

2. Bring in a photo capturing something you did on the weekend/ on a weekday, along with a scrapbook to make a visual diary.