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.