Monday, April 3, 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. 

                                                    Floortime Play (Airport Landing Strip)

Here is Mr. Avery helping out his friends in Ms. Andrea's class with their market preparations.

                                                                                 Sensory Diet

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

                                                   Some math and problem solving calendar work.

We also worked on our gross motor skills, visual spatial skills, bilateral coordination, balance and coordination, and team work skills during our dance routines for our Talent Show!!!

Next, we fixed Mr. Jacob's sentence on the board. The boys had to work together to use proper sentence structure, grammar, spelling, printing and phonics.

In gym today we played a fun Team Challenge game called Fortress Dodgeball and then Manhunt. These two 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 listened to calming music while completing a fine motor art activity- making tissue paper and pipe cleaner flowers for our market.

In the afternoon we went on our trip to No Frill's! The boys had to use their reading skills, auditory and language processing and comprehension skills, oral communication skills, math skills (number sense and numeracy, money, time) social problem solving skills, life skills, and team work. Here was our delicious list: salted cod, cabbage, potatoes, tortillas, cheese, sour cream, Chinese noodle pack, green onions, carrots, cucumbers, crab meat, olive oil, natural honey, and cinnamon. 

Mr. Ojani pushed and manoeuvred the cart the entire trip without hitting anyone or anything!

"What's up doc?"

Check out time!

Taking a break after all that hard work.

After No Frill's we went to the Post Office to learn how to send a letter to the United States of America. We wrote a letter to Evan using our language, spelling, grammar, and phonics skills. At the Post Office we also used our math skills, money skills, writing skills, life skills and social skills with the friendly clerk to mail the letter!

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 for this Wednesday, April 5th, and complete your poster if you have not finished it.