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. Here we are completing some activities for the market!
Puerto Rican Bolero
Japanese Origami
Jamaican Planes
Norwegian Sail Boats and Flag
Pikachu Origami
Mr. Avery was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time (past, present/now, future), and feelings. We also figured out that there are five school days and five students. Therefore, we used our problem solving skills to choose a specific day of the week to be the teacher.
In gym today we took a vote and decided on parachute games and soccer-baseball. These 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.
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 sixth 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 high beams and aerial silk swings! Great job gentlemen : )
Aerial Silk Swings
Trampoline
The beloved Foam Pit!!!
Floor routine-somersaults, tumbling, low beam bear walks.
More pit action!
Low and High Beams
Lastly, we went over our Zones of Regulation and discussed how gymnastics went. 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 : )
***REMINDER: Wednesday is our class trip to Chuck E Cheese's. Students need to bring in $16.00 for food, games, and gas costs. If this is a problem please email me and we can discuss the costs. Thank you : )
Ms. Jessica's class is also throwing a Bake Sale tomorrow!!!
HOMEWORK:
2. Help plan, prepare, cook, and serve a family dinner with as little support as possible! (take photos as well!)
The Spirit Week has been organised as follows:
Monday, March 6 - PJ Day - come dressed in your cozy PJ's! (9 am)
Tuesday, March 7 - Crazy Hair/Colourful Outfit Day - come dressed in colourful colours and/or with crazy hair! (12:10 pm)
Wednesday, March 8 - Princess/Superhero Day - come dressed as your favourite superhero or princess! (2:45 pm)
Thursday, March 9 - House colours - come dressed head to toe in your house colour! (9 am)
Friday, March 10 - St. Patrick's Day Spirit - come dressed in your finest St. Patrick's Day attire! (2:30 - 3:15)
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