We had a wonderful time playing getting to know you games in the Buddy Program this week. The Diener Inters were so eager to meet their Green Acres buddies. They asked them a lot of awesome questions to try to get to know them better. We played a number recognition game with the parachute. Everyone had a great time!
Beyond Cooking was fantastically fruitful this week. We made two different snacks with fruit: a fruit parfait and a fruit shortcake. We make comparisons about both and devoured our creations while we listened to the book, Blueberries for Sal.
We had a great time exploring magnets in science this week. The primary and inters classes worked in small groups to test items in their experiment bags to see which items were attracted to magnets. The uppers learned about the strength of different magnets by conducting a Paper Clip Attraction test!
To: Laurie Schwadron
This week during OT, primary students had a chance to practice sequencing and turn taking skills while playing a fun board game, Sequence for Kids. We continued working in our handwriting books this week. Our letter of the week was "C", and we practiced spacing and alignment while writing upper and lower case "C".
During OT this week, Ms. Jenni's class continued to participate in movement activities focusing on Left/Right discrimination, body and spatial awareness, as well as crossing the midline. We were introduced to lower case "h" this week. We practiced correct letter formation and sizing.
This week we continued to focus on left/right discrimination and played "Twisty Moves," a fun and exciting game full of movement. This week was full of movement, improving our gross motor skills and bilateral coordination.
This week in Ms. Emily's speech group we continued the class theme of winter and learned all about polar bears. We then made yummy polar bear treats where we used our description, association and following direction skills. Use the sequencing cards that were sent home to have your child retell what he made.
This week Ms. Jenni's speech group fell on the 100th day of school. In honor of this special day we played a game where we worked together to answer 100 speech and language questions. We had ten questions for ten different categories. Some of the categories included plurals, what's wacky, why questions, and categorization. The students even had a chance to practice their skills by playing the game during centers this week!
We had a wonderful week in Speech & Language! The Uppers worked on word retrieval and increasing expressive vocabulary. We played Headbanz and worked to expand our ability to provide attributes for target vocabulary terms and/or phrases. In Social & Life Skills, we continued learning about nutrition and health. Your children may begin to ask you if they can help choose and pack their lunch items. We ask that you facilitate their independence and encourage them to make healthy choices so that they have sufficient energy throughout our exciting school day! Ms Shannon and Ms Deanna’s Inters learned about categorization and practiced using describing words during poem construction and game playing activities.
We had a lot of fun this week in music! In the Primary class, we continued to play our favorite music games. We also learned new games that we played using rhythm sticks, like “Lightning Sticks” and “I Like to Move It.” In the Inters classes, we had music as one big group this week on our 100th day of school! We learned a special 100th day of school song and had fun singing and playing musical games with all of our friends. In the Uppers classes, we continued to learn about famous African-American musicians. We learned about two very famous groups, The Temptations and the Supremes, this week. We listened and danced to songs by them-it was a lot of fun!
