Mr. Jacob's Class: Monday, March 27, 2017

Welcome Back Everyone!

Happy Monday Students, Parents, and Carers!

We began our day with integration, sensory diets, Floortime (child-led play), and sharing stories about our March Break! 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.

Here is Mr. Carter learning about and making tornadoes!!!

Before we discussed our March Breaks, the boys had to work together to fix Mr. Jacob's sentence. They used proper sentence structure, grammar, spelling, printing and phonics.

The boys all got a chance to share stories about their March Break! Everyone used auditory and language processing & comprehension, questioning and answering techniques, oral communication skills, abstract and symbolic thinking, complex communication, and turn taking. 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 took a vote and decided on soccer and Dr. Dodgeball. These two sports 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. I am so proud of the progress in soccer. 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 before we got into two groups and had some fun with a Science Team Building session led by Ms. Monika. The boys worked on previous scientific knowledge and vocabulary, as well as 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 language processing.

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.