Monday, June, 12, 2017

Happy Monday 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. 

Here is Carter saying "good morning" to Ojani and Eric (balloon heads haha).

Mr. Sander 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 used our reading skills, phonics and phonological awareness, segmenting and blending skills, grammar and spelling, printing and motor skills to fix Mr. Jacob's morning message, then discuss our weekend activities.

In gym today we went on a fun Scavenger Nature Hunt. Students used 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, and team building skills. 

After lunch we participated in a fun Science/Geography lesson by looking at some Australian animals. As a group we researched and looked at the Australian Saltwater Crocodile. We learned how big they grow, where they are from, what they eat, and how many teeth they have! Next, we engaged in a great fine motor, visual spatial art activity by making cool crocodiles!

Watching some cool videos of the crocodiles.

Crocodile Fine Motor Weaving Art

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: SIGN AND RETURN CHUCK E CHEESE"S FORM AND BRING IN THE MONEY FOR TOMORROW!