Friday, April 28, 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. 

                                                                        Floortime Play

The boys and I conducted a survey regarding a name for our fish. We had to use oral communication skills, problem solving skills, math skills, language arts skills, printing, social skills and life skills. Here are the results thus far: 

Billy- 10

Rainy- 5

Brown- 1

Columbo- 3

Purple- 4

Prince- 7

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, predicting, questioning and answering skills, oral communication, complex and abstract communication, problem solving, scientific vocabulary, adjectives and descriptive language, 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 funky paint foam art outside. Students used their fine motor skills, creative and abstract thinking skills, team work, social skills, life skills (cleaning up), and individual artistic abilities. It was such a lovely day but the wind did pick up and unfortunately ruined quite a few of our pictures. 

                                                               Have a great weekend! 

                                                                        Mr. Jacob : )

                                                                    HOMEWORK: 

Write down a few sentences describing what you did on the weekend. Please focus on proper upper and lower cases (letter formations), punctuation, letter spacing, grammar, etc.

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Happy Thursday 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. 

Our day began with some measurement skills, fine motor skills, and team work to make stress balls as a class!

We then played a fun game called Penguins to Pickles outside in the sunshine. This game is great for inferencing, questioning, abstract thinking, problem solving, turn taking, oral communication, categorization, classification, phonological awareness and phonics, reading and letter recognition, memory recall and application skills, auditory and language processing and comprehension skills, and social skills.

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

Here are the boys using their reading skills, phonics and phonological awareness, segmenting and blending skills, grammar and spelling, printing and motor skills, two-way communication, sequencing, team work and logical thinking skills to correct Mr. Jacob's sentence.

In gym today we participated in Coloured Octopus and a Soccer match. Students had to work together and used their 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 slowing down our heart beats after a strenuous gym session. 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 met Mr. Nahi and went to Petsmart! The boys had a blast looking at the different kids of fish and aquariums. We also got carried away and checked out some other pets too! We had to use our social problem solving skills, cooperation and collective decision making skills, complex communication, money skills and number sense and numeracy, social skills and life skills. 

Unfortunately, today was Ms. D's last day at Oakwood. She generously brought in some cupcakes for the boys to decorate and enjoy in celebration!

 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. We continued our written component to our reflection where students have to write down their top three activities from the day, and then label them as being 'green', 'yellow', 'blue', or 'red' from the Zones of Regulation.  

Have a great evening! 

                                                                          

                                                                                Mr. Jacob : )