Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Happy Wednesday 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. 

For our morning activity we decided to have some STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) fun using GeoBoards. Students had to use their reading and language processing and comprehension skills, math skills (arithmetic, geometry, measurement, fractions, symmetry, sequencing), fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, and creative arts skills to complete the activity. Students followed six steps and had to complete each step in order to properly complete the STEM task at hand. Afterwards, students used their complex communication skills and two-way communication skills to compare and contrast their designs!

Next, we went over our Zootopia skit for the Spring Concert as an entire school in the Auditorium. The boys used their characters- Chief Bogo (Carter), Nick (Avery), Judy (Ojani), Flash (Sander), and Otterton (Eric)- to practice our story. They all used two-way communication skills, listening skills, auditory and language processing and comprehension skills, social skills, team work, abstract thinking, problem solving, turn taking, oral communication, and drama. Everyone did so well and I am excited for tonight!!!! : )

In gym today we played Shipwreck-Battleship-Dodgeball. Students had to work together and used their auditory processing skills, visual spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, praxis, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.

In Mindfulness today we practiced being calm, still, and focused on our breathing and controlling our bodies using Cosmic Kids 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. 

Immediately after lunch we worked on our phonics, phonological awareness, fine motor skills, and printing skills.

Then we began with another  Zootopia practice for the Spring Concert in the Auditorium. Thsi time SJA students were in attendance! The boys used their characters- Chief Bogo (Carter), Nick (Avery), Judy (Ojani), Flash (Sander), and Otterton (Eric)- to practice our story. They all used two-way communication skills, listening skills, auditory and language processing and comprehension skills, social skills, team work, abstract thinking, problem solving, turn taking, oral communication, and drama.

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 : )

HOMEWORK:  Relax with your family and enjoy the rest of your evening after a great performance!

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Happy Tuesday 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 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 (arithmetic). 

Mr. Carter was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time (past, present/now, future), and feelings. This is a great opportunity to work on ideation and symbolism, abstract and complex communication, mathematics and the passage of time, social and life skills, and communication skills. 

Here we are playing our fun Auditory and Language Processing & Comprehension game involving phonological awareness, letter and word recall, repeating words in proper sequence from memory, reorganizing a list of words in proper order, and correcting silly sentences!

In gym today we played Battleship Dodgeball, followed by soccer. Students had to work together and used their auditory processing skills, visual spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, praxis, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.

In Mindfulness today we practiced being calm, still, and focused on our breathing and controlling our bodies using Cosmic Kids 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. 

This afternoon was our fifth and final swimming session! The boys and I were very excited and the boys did so well in the pool. Everyone followed our rules, worked with the pool staff, and remained regulated for the entire duration. We demonstrated teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, coordination, auditory processing skills, body and safety awareness.

(I apologize for not having any photos, Mr. Jacob was helping out some older students who did not attend our last swimming session).
 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 : )

***OUR SPRING CONCERT IS TOMORROW AT 6:30 p.m. WE ARE ASKING STUDENTS TO ARRIVE BETWEEN 6:00-6:15 p.m. THANK YOU!

HOMEWORK: Keep practicing your lines for the Zootopia skit, and practice the lyrics for "Try Everything" by Shakira (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6rP-YP4c5I).

Monday, May 29, 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 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 (arithmetic). 

Mr. Eric was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time (past, present/now, future), and feelings. This is a great opportunity to work on ideation and symbolism, abstract and complex communication, mathematics and the passage of time, social and life skills, and communication skills. 

Here we are playing a fun Auditory and Language Processing & Comprehension game involving word recall, repeating words in proper sequence from memory, reorganizing a list of words in proper order, and correcting silly sentences!

Next, we went over our Zootopia skit for the Spring Concert as an entire school in the Auditorium. The boys used their characters- Chief Bogo (Carter), Nick (Avery), Judy (Ojani), Flash (Sander), and Otterton (Eric)- to practice our story. They all used two-way communication skills, listening skills, auditory and language processing and comprehension skills, social skills, team work, abstract thinking, problem solving, turn taking, oral communication, and drama. Everyone did so well and I am excited for Wednesday!!!! : )

In gym today we played some Ro Sham Bo followed by soccer. Students had to work together and used their auditory processing skills, visual spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, praxis, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.

In Mindfulness today we practiced being calm, still, and focused on our breathing and controlling our bodies using Cosmic Kids 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. 

Our afternoon began with a fun hands-on Science lesson involving team work and water! This lesson was great for both language and auditory processing and comprehension skills, sequencing and math skills, abstract thinking, reading skills,  scientific language and problem solving skills, fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, directional, complex and positional language.

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 : )

HOMEWORK: Keep practicing your lines for the Zootopia skit, and practice the lyrics for "Try Everything" by Shakira (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6rP-YP4c5I), and "Circle of Life" from the Lion King (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLFvthzy294).

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Happy Thursday 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 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 (arithmetic). 

Afterwards we continued researching and began constructing for our Water Projects. During this time students worked on literacy skills, spelling skills, writing skills, inferencing and abstract thinking, fine motor skills, creativity and abstract thinking, and scientific vocabulary.

                                                              Sander is "in the zone"!

Here is our Mad Scientist and Inventor Carter Brown!

"Is there something on my googles?"

Here is Sander completing some math work from SJA on symmetry and shapes.

Mr. Avery was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time (past, present/now, future), and feelings. This is a great opportunity to work on ideation and symbolism, abstract and complex communication, mathematics and the passage of time, social and life skills, and communication skills. 

In gym today we played some warm up games followed by Four Square Dodgeball. Students had to work together and used their auditory processing skills, visual spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, praxis, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, and balance and coordination.

                                            (Mr. Jacob was too busy playing for pictures!)

In Mindfulness today we practiced being calm, still, and focused on our breathing and controlling our bodies using Cosmic Kids 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. 

Our afternoon began with a fun hands-on Science lesson led by Ms. Ashley! This lesson was great for both language and auditory processing and comprehension skills, sequencing and math skills, abstract thinking, reading skills,  scientific language and problem solving skills, fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, directional, complex and positional language. 

                                       Here we are problem solving what the teams should be!

Reading the instructions to create the experiment in proper sequence.

"Taste the Rainbow!"

It's a ghost!!!!!

Here we are using our reading skills, phonics and phonological awareness, segmenting and blending skills, grammar and spelling, printing and motor skills, two-way communication, sequencing, team work and logical thinking skills to correct Mr. Jacob's sentence.

Next, we went over our Zootopia skit for the Spring Concert as an entire school in the Auditorium. The boys used their characters- Chief Bogo (Carter), Nick (Avery), Judy (Ojani), Flash (Sander), and Otterton (Eric)- to practice our story. They all used two-way communication skills, listening skills, auditory and language processing and comprehension skills, social skills, team work, abstract thinking, problem solving, turn taking, oral communication, and drama. Everyone did so well!!!! : )

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 : )

HOMEWORK: Keep practicing your lines for the Zootopia skit, and practice the lyrics for "Try Everything" by Shakira (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6rP-YP4c5I), and "Circle of Life" from the Lion King (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLFvthzy294).