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 what we are going to do to prepare for it!
Avery is figuring out how many days until our Talent Show auditions, as well as how many days until our Cultural Market.
Here is Avery planning his Cultural Market idea.
Floortime
Our friends worked together to figure out how to fit all of our objects using social problem solving, two-way communication, abstract thinking, math skills and team work.
Mr. Ghost was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time (past, present/now, future), and feelings.
Completing our attendance, calendar, and weather work sheets.
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.
Mr. Jacob was too busy playing to take photos! :)
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.
SJA Math Work
In the afternoon we began with some phonics and spelling. Students had to think about words that begin with the /o/ sound, and then write them down and make a sentence (e.g. The orange octopus went over the otter). Next, we participated in a fun visual spatial team building activity. Ms. B and Mr. Dean led the hands-on session that also involved two-way communication, math skills, fine motor skills, team work, problem solving, and sportsmanship. This was a very challenging activity and our friends worked hard on discussing our feelings and emotions, and why we felt certain emotions and feelings.
Spelling, Phonics, and Sentences
Team Build
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. We also used our practice clock, phonics box, rhyming games, and two-digit addition and subtraction while in the gym.
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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