Today was certainly a long 12 hour day, I can feel the fall season catching up to me but today was fun Friday, so we can release our tension and stress and laugh a little, play a little, and change up the routine with a little fun! It was time to catch the happiness syndrome. It's the curve ball at the end of the week that keeps you on your toes but also allows you to relax and take a deep ahhh or ummmmm. It's time to reboot after another long first FULL week of school with the kiddies! I dont know about any other teacher but I am exhausted and in need of major doses of Vitamin C and B and all the continuation of the alphabet! During the week, I think we all can feel the rythmn of our body clock, with Moondays, Hump Days, so why not a Fun day!
Floor fun time is a great time to keep data with a clipboard and use the child's lead and interests to get certain goals met while sitting on the floor or the dramatic play area. It's time to step away from the table and get down and dirty on the floor. I highly reccommend a salt water nose cleanse at the end of the day however, and a pocket full of hand santiation at this point in the game!
Next Friday, I'm going to look forward to Movie night as part of the fun. When you develop a fun Friday into your routine you keep the kids interested and working for something all week long! It's a great time to include lots of sensory activities that help meet academic goals. Shaving cream makes a great handwriting lesson when you add a paint brush. Exposure to different textures to and around the mouth, cheeks, neck, arms, hands starting at the furtherst point from the mouth and moving towards the mouth as the child will allow you! Music and fun is a good way to get up a dance, do yoga, and incorporate dance with yoga. Yoga and sensory all help promote spontaneous language, increase vocal volume, and an overall connectiveness between the language compenents that the child may be defeciet in. It's important to keep a routine, however, we also have to teach that the routine will change up sometimes and ways to deal with stress and uncertainity. In the child's sensory world, they are exploring in the world and their senses are leaving them lost to some feelings. When given the whole world to intake, their sensory systems are overloaded, shut down, and rebooting on more of an hourly basis rather than our weekly rythmn.
It's hard to have this syndrome of happiness all day every day let alone every Friday all year long. How does one stay happy, breathe easy, and get excited rather than feel exhausted about the work that is ahead of them. The sensory system is interesting because it can block out negative reception and just feel good all the time, but it can also feel so negative and then change to so positive with the polarity happening within minutes, seconds. It's important to have lots of fun things the kids like to do to keep their attention and get into their world. What did you do for fun this Friday?
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