Kenneth D. Taylor - Ms. Ward

As always, our learners continue to explore and conquer new skills, tasks, and activities. Here are some highlights of recently: parallel peer play sensory exploration Learning to draw! Discovering new equipment during PE With the new season upon us, many of our art activities have included a "winter" theme: The second letter in the acronym of our program's title is "S" (for SENSORY). Each kiddo is most successful under their own specific self-regulation routines; however, there is one universal strategy we have found that recently has proven very helpful as a movement break for most of our students. Check it out, our very own Bouncy House! For the month of December our students will have access to this a movement break choice.  Reminders Monday, November 27th: Creative Movement Unit Begins Popcorn Days November 28th & 29th Paint Nite Fundraise November 30th Movie Nite December 1st, 7pm PD Day December 8...

What a productive couple of weeks! Recently, we added a new activity to our morning meeting. As a class, we have begun to "sign in" each morning using our Smart Board. Each student is responsible for finding their names and dragging their photo under "here."  We have also added some new activities during our afternoon center time and our sensory bins have been a class favourite right before home time: Some other additional centers we have added include our Reading Center where our students can choose either "Read to Self" or "read me a story" (reading with our staff). Some Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) we have been using to support this center are included below: As always, the use of appropriate and functional communication is something we continue to support and promote in our classrooms each and every day. With some time designated to play and leisure skills built in to our daily schedules, this also doubles as a gre...