Monday, April 10, 2017

Happy Monday 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. 

Ring Toss-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. 

The boys used auditory and language processing, fine motor skills,  math skills (number sense and numeracy, measurement, multiplication), team work, two-way communication skills, social skills, life skills, directional language and money skills to discuss our Term 3 plans. The boys and I decided to look at oceans and lakes, animals in those habitats, aquariums, boats and submarines, and where the closest Pet Store is to look at aquatic animals!

Measuring potential tank sizes. 

Researching Pet Stores

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

In gym today we played a fun Team Challenge game called Rollerball. This game challenged the students' math skills, 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.

Afterwards, we participated in a hands-on rhyming drumming session with Ms. Andrea's class. Students worked on turn taking, language arts skills, phonics and rhyming, math skills, social skills, and time and rhythm. 

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. During this session the weather took a turn and we had an informative conversation about lightning. We used a kid friendly video to learn about why and how lightning is formed, and where lightning occurs!

                                                       Have a great evening! Mr. Jacob : )