Keenan is her son. She told us about how someone who is a teacher and has a child with Autism experiences the current system. Keenan has had physiotherapy and occupational therapy. She expressed the importance of diet. Dr. Jacqueline Legace wrote a book about it. Dr. Legace was in pain from Arthritis. Starr noticed that Keenan had very little eye contact and attention span, and so she tried removing Gluten from the diet, and from then on, he was able to look Starr in the eye, and answer her. There have been many experiments on the subject and now it is known that diet effects short term memory, mood, and many other things.
Starr uses sensory stimulation devices to help keep him calm. She also emphasized the importance of peer tutoring.She suggests: respect differences, always have an open mind, never stop believing.
Jasmin- Inuit Games Day!
To the Inuit People, examining anything, requires examining all aspects of it, so Physical Ed. is not just about people's physical activity, it is about emotional well being as well. She has two students going to the Innuit Cultural Games in Greenland. Rick Mercer was a guest at the Arctic winter games.The Older students (who are sometimes unruly) will look after the young children at the games, and they thrive. They have individual and team winners, and do an awards ceremony the next day.
There is a two foot high kick. There is also a one foot high kick, and both girls and boys are equally involved in it. The Alaskan High kick is also a fun kick. They have "Bone and Stick" is the hitting a bone that hangs on a thread from the ceiling. The One hand Reach is another game, where they hit a bone hanging from a thread, but it is from the ground. The Knuckle hop- is when they get into pushup position and they use their knuckles to hop. I don't think I will forget this, but I want to capture it in my blog;
Airplane is a really difficult, but fun activity in which a student lays out flat and three people lift the person up.
Jeanette looked at the Gross Motor component
They did a lot of research into how to improve fine motor skills.
Take Action Breaks! Animal Walks or Silly Walks
Have Fun Teaching is a great website for
Go noodle
Using a Dobber may help students to write without needing a good pencil grip. She got some cut up pieces of wood and she used them to put on a line to help develop fine motor.
To Develop a pincer grasp you can use an eye dropper and have them drop water onto a piece of Lego.
You can work your way to smaller objects. There are cars that can be attached to markers and then they can hold the car to mark with the marker.
HandWriting Without Tears has some pointing and Tracing things.
Tena- She has the Sunshine Room
Children misbehave when they are
bored
unable to do the work
or are attention seeking.
Tena said that we need movement breaks to give people that chance. She uses the popsickle sticks to choose the movement break. She can either add new ones or throw out those that they don't like.
Dance and Yoga are great activities.
Internet Fun is a list of websites that is a list GoNoodle, The Learning Station, Brain Breaks, Cosmic Kids Yoga, ABCs
Sonia- Movement Breaks
Scheduled, Frequent, Powerful and predicatble
Movement meals and Movement snacks
Sonia found an image that shows how much more engaged the brain after a twenty minute walk. She listed many reasons why we do Movement Breaks. It benefits students with Autism, intellectual disabilities, etc. Funtervals was a Master's Program at Queen's University- It is a great movement break that can be done from a chair. Here is the link;
Funtervals (Queen's University)
Joy- Will have a proposal that she will take to the Principal about the Snoezlin Room. She says that her school has both the money to do it and the need for it. I sure hope that she gets it! It is perfect for Sensory Motor Development.
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