Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!!!

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. 


                                                                            Floortime

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

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.

Today was our third gymnastics session.  The boys demonstrated excellent patience, listening skills, and movements in gymnastics today. We worked on our balance and coordination, proprioceptive, vestibular, and bilateral movements, sportsmanship, gross motor skills, visual spatial skills and motor planning.

Lastly, we went over our Zones of Regulation and discussed how gymnastics 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.

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.