The Watermelons and the Legos are concluding a unit about the human body. The students broke into small groups to see if they could work together to build a puzzle of a life-size human skeleton. Before we started, we talked about words we can use to share our ideas and solve problems. This is a typical example of how the skills our therapists focus on (e.g., flexibility, social thinking, Collaborative Problem Solving) are incorporated into the daily life of classroom activities (e.g., team-building puzzles, group activities, games in music class).
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After doing research and experimenting with wind and solar power, the Battleships, Clouds and Otters are writing letters to our local Councilmember from NYC's District 5, Ben Kallos. Mr. Kallos' office has been in touch with our school and is looking forward to hearing about our students' ideas about how our city could use renewable energy. Some examples of the students ideas include putting windmills on top of apartment buildings and adding solar panels to city parks.
This project has incorporated our Teaching Basic Writing Skills curriculum. This curriculum consists of direct instruction on how to sequence ideas, structure sentences and eventually build paragraphs. It's great practice for our students to generalize these skills outside of "writing" time on the classroom schedule. |
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