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.
We started off constructing some props for our spring play using fine motor skills, creativity, problem, solving, social skills, complex communication skills, and team work.
Here is Ojani practicing his SJA math problems!
Our morning activity was conducting research for our Water Projects and a Team Building challenge. The team building challenge was great for reading comprehension skills, sequencing and math skills, abstract thinking, problem solving skills, fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, bilateral movements, two way communication skills, complex and positional language, and team work. During the research process, students worked on language skills, spelling skills, inferencing and abstract thinking, fine motor skills, and scientific vocabulary.
Mr. Ojani 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 game that was a mix between Dodgeball and Coloured Octopus. Next was yet another 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.
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 got into two groups and had some fun with a science experiment: Elephant Toothpaste. The boys used social skills, team building skills, life skills, scientific language and problem solving skills, fine motor skills, math skills, reading skills, inquiry and ideation, sequential thought, complex and abstract thinking skills, and two-way communication skills.
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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