We began our day with introductions for our two new teachers- Ms. Ashley and Ms. Tanya. The boys also completed 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.
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.
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.
Creating our castle walls and setting up our catapults!
Questioning Time
Mr. Eric 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 Crazy Tag and a hockey game. 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.
Right after lunch we spent 15 minutes going over some problems that occurred during recess. The boys used empathy, perspective taking, complex communication, inferencing, two way communication, listening skills, team work, life skills and social skills.
After our social problem solving we completed our survey in order to find the most popular name for our fish. We had to use oral communication skills, problem solving skills, math skills, language arts skills, printing, social skills and life skills. Here are the final results results thus far:
Billy- 12
Rainy- 6
Brown- 2
Columbo- 4
Purple- 5
Prince- 0
The end result.........PRINCE BILLY!!!!
We then discussed and went over the components of a story to create our skit for the Spring Concert. The boys have decided on the movie Zootopia, along with the following characters: Chief Bogo (Carter), Nick (Avery), Judy (Ojani), Flash (Sander), and Otterton (Eric). We had to use our 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 our knowledge on how to create a story while using the 5 Finger Retell model.
(Mr. Jacob was too busy writing down all of our lines as the boys were acting and making the story up!)
(Mr. Jacob was too busy writing down all of our lines as the boys were acting and making the story up!)
In the sensory gym we worked on our hand-eye coordination, teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, fine and gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, math, time, phonics and rhyming skills, and balance and coordination. Today we used our practice clock, phonics box, rhyming games, and two-digit addition and subtraction while in the gym!
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: DO NOT FORGOT YOUR BATHING SUIT AND TOWEL AS TOMORROW IS OUR FIRST SWIMMING SESSION!
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