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.
This morning St. John's Ambulance Dog Therapy team came in fur a visit. The boys had a blast petting Zoe and asking lots of questions about her.
In gym today we took a vote and decided on soccer and parachute games. 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.
Today was our seventh gymnastics session. The boys demonstrated excellent patience, listening skills, and movements in gymnastics today. We worked on our balance and coordination, proprioceptive, vestibular, and bilateral movements, sportsmanship, gross motor skills, visual spatial skills and motor planning. The boys have now progressed to the spring board, high beams and walked across a new obstacle course over the foam pit! Great job gentlemen : )
Spring Board
Obstacle Course and High Beams
Trampoline Work
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.
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
No comments:
Post a Comment