Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Happy Wednesday Students, Parents, and Carers!

We began our day with some discussion on Chuck E Cheese's and Great White Sharks, participation in 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.  

We began our day by saying hello to Mr. Johnny and making a mind map of all our activities for the year! 

For our morning exercise we participated in some long jump. The boys used math skills, measurement, body awareness and mapping, bilateral awareness, gross motor skills, etc.

Here we are measuring our height!

Mr. Eric 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 participated in a fun Science/Geography lesson by looking at some Australian animals. As a group we researched and looked at the Great White Shark. We learned how big they are, 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 our own unique sharks!

In gym today we played Soccer and Parachute games outdoors. 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.

We began our afternoon by completing our awesome sharks! We used fine motor skills, bilateral movements, creativity, abstract thinking, symbolism, scientific language and math skills.

Here we are having fun with a hands-on Science lesson involving team work and water! 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, directional, complex and positional language.  

The Physics behind Bottle Flipping: velocity, mass, distance, angles, materials, surfaces, height, force and motion.

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 : )