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
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