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.
Here is Sander using his language skills, directional and positional language, visual spatial skills, application skills, and complex and abstract language to lead us in Mimic A Design.
Ojani and Ms. D are playing a matching game that is good for visual spatial skills, memory and recall, cognitive thinking, math skills, and sportsmanship.
Mr. Ojani is describing the characters in SJA novel and explaining what just happened in Chapter 7.
Here we are completing our SJA Benchmark Mathematics Assessments by using all of our math skills: measurement, number sense and numeracy, multiplication and division, shapes and geometry, money skills, time, graphs, and fractions.
Mr. Avery was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time (past, present/now, future), and feelings.
In gym today we participated in a fun dance session organized by Mr. Scott's TA, and then had a friendly soccer shoot out competition. 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 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.
After lunch we had some relation/regulation time before we got into two groups and had some fun with three water science experiments. The boys used social skills, team building skills, life skills, scientific language and problem solving skills, fine motor skills, math skills, inquiry and ideation, sequential thought, complex and abstract thinking skills, and two-way communication skills.
Walking Water Experiment
Travelling Water Experiment
Freeze Dance Sensory Break- promotes regulation, motor planning, gross motor skills, auditory processing, visual spatial skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, body mapping, awareness, and planning, and balance and coordination.
Next, we played a fun game that used our 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.
Lastly, we went over our Zones of Regulation and discussed how we were feeling today while enjoying the lovely weather! 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.
Hugging Mr. Dean on his second last day!
Have a great evening!
Mr. Jacob : )
REMINDER: 3 out of our 4 TAs will be leaving this week (Ms. Monika, Ms. B, and Mr. Dean are all finishing their program placements). Ms. D will continue to be with us for a couple of weeks. Currently we do not have any TAs replacing them, but we should have at least 2 TAs coming to help us in May. We apologize for the inconveniences and reduced integration during this process.
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