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.
Quiet Reading Time
Morning Exercise
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.
Sensory Break
In gym today we participated in a fun obstacle course organized and created by two SJA students. 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.
In the afternoon we got together to play Mr. Dean's and Ms. D's Jeopardy game. Everyone used auditory & language processing and comprehension skills, phonological awareness and phonics, reading and letter recognition, memory recall and application skills, math skills, and ideation and abstract thinking. All of the questions related to past memories, games, quotes, and activities with our class.
Here we are playing Head Bandz. This was a fun game where everyone had to use inferencing, questioning, abstract thinking, problem solving, turn taking, oral communication, categorization, classification, time, auditory and language processing and comprehension skills, and social skills.
Here we are working on our gross motor skills, visual spatial skills, bilateral coordination, balance and coordination, body planning and mapping, math skills, team work, and sportsmanship during Twister!
We finished off the fun afternoon with some Pinata Fun!
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.
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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