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
The boys used 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 this morning. They then had to use their social and two-way communication skills, complex and abstract thinking skills, math skills (arithmetic and measurement), fine motor skills, problem solving skills, and team work skills in order to make Ms. Tanya's "game board" on the carpet.
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.
As always we went over our Question Wheel and looked at different questioning techniques for Show & Tell. Everyone did a great job and used lots of inferencing, predicting, questioning and answering skills, oral communication, complex and abstract communication, problem solving, scientific vocabulary, adjectives and descriptive language, and implemented the question wheel and the Five W's. This has been a work in progress as some of our friends do find it difficult to think about questions, why we chose a specific toy/object, how much time has gone by since I got the toy/object, etc. Show & Tell is very important for our students to make connections to times, places, and faces that occur in their world, and using all of our skills mentioned above.
In gym today we played a few fun warm up games before going outside to play soccer on the big field! Students had to work together and used their auditory processing 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.
After lunch the boys participated in Ms. Tanya's real-life Scrabble game. The boys used their language & auditory comprehension and processing skills, phonics and phonological awareness, problem solving skills, segmenting and blending, sequential thought, complex and abstract thinking skills, and two-way communication skills.
Afterwards 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.
Here we are watching our friends in Ms. Andrea's class:
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. We continued our writing component for 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 safe and fun long weekend! There is no school tomorrow, or on Monday, May 22!
Mr. Jacob : )
HOMEWORK: Practice your lines for our Zootopia play! I emailed the play to everyone!
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