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 morning activity was conducting research for our Water Projects and a Team Building challenge. The team building challenge was great for auditory processing and comprehension skills, sequencing and math skills, abstract thinking, problem solving skills, fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, directional, complex and positional language. During the research process, students worked on language skills, spelling skills, inferencing and abstract thinking, fine motor skills, and scientific vocabulary. During the team building we also had to use our social problem solving skills, multiplication skills, and time management skills in order to figure out how much time each student had to conduct their research.
Here is Carter helping us with our multiplication problem: 7X3.
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, the passage of time, social and life skills, and communication skills.
In gym today we played Crazy Tag and then organized a fun 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.
The afternoon began with 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.
Afterwards we had a fun cooking session making pizza! Students had to first, orally explain and sequence the proper steps to make pizza and list all the ingredients and equipment. We then got down to work in teams and used our number sense and numeracy, fractions, multiplication, time, fine motor skills, life skills, oral communication skills, complex communication, and team work skills!
Mamma mia!!!
***Tomorrow we will be participating in two events (ball throw and 100m run) at the St. Jude's Track & Field Day. Unfortunately we will be unable to fully participate as our students leave at 12:00, but we are invited to participate in two quick events in the morning. Can you please dress appropriately for the event! : )
Have a great evening!
Mr. Jacob : )
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