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
Ring toss is a great game to work on our fine and gross motor skills, visual spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, turn taking, sportsmanship, and math skills.
We then played our fun game Penguins to Pickles! 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.
The boys using their 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.
Mr. Carter was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time (past, present/now, future), and feelings.
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.
In gym today we participated in coloured octopus and then played a soccer match. 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 slowing down our heart beats after a strenuous gym session. 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 first 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.
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: Write out at least 4 rules we need to follow when we go swimming! The boys did great and no one broke any rules, but I would like to see what they remember from today! : )
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