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.
Ring toss is a great tool to work on our fine and gross motor skills, visual spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, turn taking, sportsmanship, and math skills (arithmetic).
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.
Here we are playing our fun Auditory and Language Processing & Comprehension game involving phonological awareness, letter and word recall, repeating words in proper sequence from memory, reorganizing a list of words in proper order, and correcting silly sentences!
In gym today we played Battleship Dodgeball, followed by soccer. Students had to work together and used their auditory processing skills, visual spatial 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 fifth and final 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.
(I apologize for not having any photos, Mr. Jacob was helping out some older students who did not attend our last swimming session).
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 : )
***OUR SPRING CONCERT IS TOMORROW AT 6:30 p.m. WE ARE ASKING STUDENTS TO ARRIVE BETWEEN 6:00-6:15 p.m. THANK YOU!
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).
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