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.
To begin our morning we participated in a OT Phonics session. This activity worked on bilateral movements, crossing the midline, core strength, upper body strength, balance and coordination, body mapping and planning, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, turn taking, oral communication, categorization, classification, phonological awareness and phonics, auditory and language processing and comprehension skills, and social skills. Students had to use a yoga ball to extend their bodies and grab the correct object when provided with a clue (e.g. Find the object that has the /sh/ sound, or find the object that rhymes with /rain/).
Link: https://www.childsplaytherapycenter.com/bilateral-coordination-important/
Our next activity was conducting research for our water projects and a building challenge. The building challenge was great for reading comprehension skills, sequencing and math skills, abstract thinking, problem solving skills, fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, and bilateral movements. During the research process, students worked on language skills, spelling skills, inferencing and abstract thinking, fine motor skills, and scientific vocabulary.
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, the passage of time, social and life skills, and communication skills.
Letter Formation and printing skills activity where we had to also think of words that begin with certain letter sounds.
In gym today we played a new version of Manhunt, and then played a great 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.
After lunch we went over our Zootopia skit for the Spring Concert. 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.
Our song "Try Everything"
We then played Penguins to Pickles! and completed some Phonics Art. That 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.
Have a great evening!
Mr. Jacob : )
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