Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Happy Tuesday 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. 

Mr. Carter 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. 

Afterwards we had a chance to discuss our weekend events and use 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. 

Here we are going over a Building Challenge. The building challenge was great for both language and auditory processing and comprehension skills, sequencing and math skills, abstract thinking, reading skills, problem solving skills, fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, directional, complex and positional language. 

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!!!! : )

In gym today we played Letters Octopus and then played Doctor Dodgeball. 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. 

This afternoon was our fourth swimming session! The boys and I were very excited and the boys did so well in the pool. Everyone followed our rules, worked with the pool staff, and remained regulated for the entire duration. We demonstrated teamwork, sportsmanship, motor planning, gross motor skills, proprioception skills, vestibular and bilateral movements, coordination, auditory processing skills, body and safety awareness.

 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).