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).