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).
After discussing our weekends and having some Floortime Play, we continued researching and constructing for our Water Projects. During this time students worked on literacy skills, spelling skills, writing skills, inferencing and abstract thinking, fine motor skills, math skills, creativity and abstract thinking, and scientific vocabulary.
Research time.
Eric showing off his work for SJA.
Hard at work.
Teamwork!
Here is Avery pretending to be a stingray! Hahaha
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.
In gym today we played Shipwreck-Dodgeball followed by Shark Tag. 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.
Our afternoon began with a fun science experiment called "Whirly Bird"! This lesson was great for both language and auditory processing and comprehension skills, sequencing and math skills, abstract thinking, reading skills, scientific language and problem solving skills, fine motor skills, visual spatial skills, and timing.
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 : )
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