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.
This morning the boys and I had a great discussion on how to make a big catapult and sling shot for our Real-Life Castle Catapult. We discussed height, distance, force, stability, gravity, and speed. The boys used their oral communication skills, complex and abstract communication skills, problem solving skills, inquiry skills, scientific vocabulary, math skills (arithmetic and measurement), and team work skills.
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.
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.
Here we are practicing our fine motor skills by tying up shoe laces.
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.
Afterwards we got into two groups and had some outdoor fun with Real-Life Castle Catapult. The boys used social skills, team building skills, life skills, language & auditory comprehension and processing skills, phonics and phonological awareness, scientific language and problem solving skills, fine motor skills, math skills (arithmetic, measurement, fractions, and time), inquiry and ideation, sequential thought, complex and abstract thinking skills, and two-way communication skills.
At recess we had a school wide Water Balloon fight to escape the heat!!!
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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