Friday, March 31, 2017

Happy Friday Students, Parents, and Carers!

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. 

                                                         Some math/problem solving calendar work.

Here we are working on our gross motor skills, visual spatial skills, bilateral coordination, balance and coordination, and team work skills during our dance routines for our Talent Show!!!

Floortime (Play Time)

We also talked worked on our Cultural Market and used our creativity, fine motor skills, abstract thinking, two-way communication, problem solving, language and math skills. 

As always we went over our Question Wheel and looked at different questioning techniques for Show & Tell. Everyone did a great job and used lots of inferencing, questioning and answering skills, oral communication, problem solving, scientific vocabulary, adjectives, and implemented the question wheel and the Five W's. This has been a work in progress as some of our friends do find it difficult to think about questions, why we chose a specific toy/object, how much time has gone by since I got the toy/object, etc. Show & Tell is very important for our students to make connections to times, places, and faces that occur in their world, and using all of our skills mentioned above. I also want to remind parents that Show & Tell is every Friday! : )

In Art class today we made some cool Banksy-style street art pieces for the Cultural Market. Students used their fine motor skills, creative and abstract thinking skills, team work, social skills, life skills (cleaning up), and individual artistic abilities (by using various objects to paint with).

                                                                 Have a great evening! 

                                                                        Mr. Jacob : )

                                                                    HOMEWORK:

I have sent home a Homework sheet entailing the students to do a little research project with pictures, a title (country name) and some facts on a poster board. The students can bring them in on Monday or Tuesday, with Wednesday being the latest! Thank you 

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Happy Thursday 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 Play

Researching Tornadoes (using scientific knowledge and language, spelling and language processing skills, fine motor skills, oral communication skills, life skills).

Ring Toss

Here we are working on our Base Ten math model for addition and subtraction problems. The boys also had to use symbolic and abstract thinking, complex communication skills, life skills and social skills.

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

Next, we fixed Mr. Jacob's sentence on the board. The boys had to work together to use proper sentence structure, grammar, spelling, printing and phonics.

In gym today we played a fun Team Challenge game called Pirate Attack and then Ro Sham Bo. Students had to work with their fellow shipmates to protect their ship (gym mat) and protect their 4 anchors (bowling pins) while using one life boat (a scooter) to retrieve cannon balls (gym balls) and try to knock out the other ships' anchors (bowling pins). These two games 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. Everyone has been displaying great team work skills, sportsmanship skills, gross motor skills, and the fundamentals of playing on a team sport!

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 and then participated in Ms. Rebecca's lesson. The boys had to work together and brainstorm ideas to create a device that would move a cotton ball a specific distance without using their arms. They used social skills, team building skills, life skills, problem solving skills, fine motor skills, math skills, complex and abstract thinking skills, two-way communication skills, and auditory & language processing and comprehension. 

Here we are practicing our Talent Show dance!!! : )

Today was Ms. Rebecca's last day at Oakwood Academy. We gave her a goodbye card, gifts, and then had a dance party with chocolate cake and ketchup chips. Life is good! : )

Lastly, we went over our Zones of Regulation and discussed how we were feeling today. 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. Help plan, prepare, cook, and serve a family dinner with as little support as possible! (take photos as well!)

2. Gather the appropriate items and ingredients for your cultural market project for next Wednesday, April 5th.

Avery: Pikachu origami

Carter: honey, oil, and cinnamon for facial masks

Sander: troll plants and figures

Eric: Chinese fans, lanterns

and/or toy/game

Ojani: dominoes game 

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Happy Wednesday Students, Parents, and Carers!

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 continued to work on our Cultural Market and used our creativity, fine motor skills, abstract thinking, two-way communication, problem solving, language and math skills (3D shapes, measurement, fractions, and number sense and numeracy). Here we are completing some activities for the market!

                                                                 Country Flags and Toys

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 fun Team Challenge game called Shipwreck. Students had to work with their fellow shipmates to sail (using two gym mats) through choppy seas (gym floor) and locate treasure (yellow cone). Once the treasure was found, each pirate team had to head back to their home island and bury the treasure. Afterwards, we played a great game of soccer. These two games 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. Everyone has been displaying great team work skills, sportsmanship skills, gross motor skills, and the fundamentals of playing on a team sport!

                                                                       Shipwreck

Soccer

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 are two friends engaging in a calming writing activity while working on their letter formation, phonics, and word structure.

After lunch we had some relation/regulation time and fixed Mr. Jacob's sentence. The boys had to work together to use proper sentence structure, grammar, spelling, printing and phonics. Next, we had some fun with a Reading Comprehension activity that Ms. D led. The boys worked on nouns, verbs, and adjectives, as well as the components of a story (i.e. characters, plot, setting, etc.) while listening to a short story and retelling a scene using both verbal and visual skills. They also used social skills, team building skills, life skills, problem solving skills, fine motor skills, math skills, complex and abstract thinking skills, two-way communication skills, and spelling, phonics, and language processing.  

                                                                    Mr. Jacob's Sentence

Ms. D's Reading Comprehension Activity

Here we are "mean mugging" for the opening of our dance performance! (this is all I can show you until the big event)

Here we are having some free time. We chose to play Twister, Pizza Fractions, and work on our Cultural Market. 

Lastly, we went over our Zones of Regulation and discussed how we were feeling today. 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. Help plan, prepare, cook, and serve a family dinner with as little support as possible! (take photos as well!)

2. Gather the appropriate items and ingredients for your cultural market project for next Wednesday, April 5th.

Avery: Pikachu origami

Carter: honey, oil, and cinnamon for facial masks

Sander: troll plants and figures

Eric: Chinese fans, lanterns

and/or toy/game

Ojani: dominoes game