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 Ojani explaining a fun game called Penguins to Pickles that he brought in from home. 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.
Floortime Play
We spent some time this morning going over our letter regarding Petsmart. The boys researched different fish, prices, aquariums, and food on the internet. Next, we had to use oral communication skills, language skills, phonological awareness, printing skills and letter formation, and team work to make a letter for our parents.
Go Noodle 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.
Mr. Carter 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 great soccer match, and then played ball tag. 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 in Yoga. 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 got into two groups and had some fun with Castle Catapult. The boys used social skills, team building skills, life skills, language & auditory comprehension and processing skills, phonics and phonological awareness, scientific language and problem solving skills, fine motor skills, math skills (arithmetic, measurement, fractions, and time), inquiry and ideation, sequential thought, complex and abstract thinking skills, and two-way communication skills.
Team Building using mathematical concepts and knowledge.
Let the games begin!!!
Working together to solve problems in Team Titans.
Fire awaaayyyy!
Question time!
Immediately after we discussed and went over the components of a story to create our skit for the Spring Concert. The boys decided on the movie Zootopia, along with the following characters: Chief Bogo, Nick, Judy, Flash, and Otterton. We had to use our two-way communication skills, listening skills, language comprehension, our knowledge on how to create a story while using the 5 Finger Retell model, and team work.
We also practice our Zootopia song "Try Everything" by Shakira.
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. Today I also added a writing component to our reflection where students had 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 : )
REMINDER: 3 out of our 4 TAs have unfortunately left us (Ms. Monika, Ms. B, and Mr. Dean all finished their program placements). Ms. D will continue to be with us for this week. 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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