Wednesday February 8, 2017

Happy Wednesday Students, Parents, and Carers!

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.

                                                    Floortime- learning about steam trains

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                                                                   Sensory Breaks

Cultural Market: we discussed, researched, and went over our cultural market and what we want to make and create from different countries.

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 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.

After lunch we had some relation/regulation time before we got into two groups and had some fun with two science experiments. 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.

                                                           Regulation/Relaxation

                                                                    Science

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 continued going over our cultural market and our Zones of Regulation during reflection. 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.We also used calming meditation  music and a drum to support us through our reflection time. Afterwards we got into two groups and were given an ice cube in a zip lock bag. Students had to figure out the fastest way to melt the ice cube without popping the zip lock bag! We had some great discussion on heat, melting, friction, and solids, liquids and gases.

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.