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 game to work on our fine and gross motor skills, visual spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, turn taking, sportsmanship, and math skills.
We then 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 having some fun with 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.
Mr. Ojani was our teacher today and went over months, weeks, dates, days, year, weather, time (past, present/now, future), and feelings.
In gym today we participated in coloured octopus and then played a soccer match outdoors. 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.
After lunch we had some regulation/occupational therapy time with Ms. Leah working on our bilateral movements, core strength, gross motor skills, and body awareness and planning. Here is a great link explaining the importance of bilateral movements and crossing the midline:
https://www.childsplaytherapycenter.com/bilateral-coordination-important/
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.
Frappuccino anyone?
Baristas at work lol
Hmmm...How are bubble formed? Why? What are they made out of?
Finally!!!! The DOUBLE BUBBLE!!!
Aggaaaiiinnn!!!!!
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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