We began our day with integration, ring toss, sensory diets, and Floortime. 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.
Morning Exercise- Go Noodle
Here are the boys working together in a problem solving/team building exercise. I informed the boys that they had to make a calendar using tape, and it has to be the size of one of our floor mats. The boys worked together independently and demonstrated great problem solving skills, two-communication skills, social skills, life skills, math skills, and abstract thinking skills.
Carter, Sander and Mr. Jacob used the computer to research some great facts about Jamaica and Norway. We used our spelling skills and somehow came across a Jamaican honey mask facial, Jamaican patties, and tattoos! I can't wait to get rid of some wrinkles while eating a delicious patty!!! :)
Mr. Sander 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 tag game called Blob Tag. Teachers 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.
Here we are delivering a special delivery notice to our friends!
After lunch we discussed, researched, and went over our cultural market and what we want to make and create.
Today we had an indoor Oakwood 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 continued going over our cultural market and our Zones of Regulation. 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. 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:
1. 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.
2. To research a snack, toy, game, instrument, dance, jewellery, etc. from your cultural background and bring in the instructions, recipe, directions, etc. to discuss and make in class.
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