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.
Freeze Dance- 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.
We began our day by discussing some research topics involving water. Everyone brainstormed different questions and ideas they had relating to water (e.g. How do submarines work? What is the deepest body of water? What is the longest eel? etc.) The boys figured out how much time each student would have on Mr. Jacob's computer researching their question by using multiplication and division skills, complex problem solving skills, turn taking, and two way communication skills. While one student was researching, the other students were playing Penguins to Pickles! 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. During the research process, students worked on language skills, spelling skills, inferencing and abstract thinking, fine motor skills, and scientific vocabulary.
Pickles to Penguins!
Research Projects
Here is Carter planning his research project on submarines with Ms. Tanya.
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 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. Everyone is doing so well during soccer and there is so much progress!!!
New Manhunt
Soccer Match
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.
Here we are using our language arts skills to write down our costume list.
Mr. Eric wanted to practice his math skills before science. Way to go Eric!
Afterwards we got into two groups and had some fun with two science experiments: Double Bubble and The Milky Way. The boys used social skills, team building skills, life skills, scientific language and problem solving skills, fine motor skills, math skills, inquiry and ideation, sequential thought, complex and abstract thinking skills, and two-way communication skills.
Here is a link for the experiment: https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/milk-color-explosion/
Here is yesterday's experiment: https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/bubble-inside-a-bubble/
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 great evening!
Mr. Jacob : )
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