Day Four and We All Took The Floor!
July 8th, 2016
Chris and Jill – Gross (or Delicious) Sundaes
Suzanne and Rachel – Baking a Cake!
This is a great idea and a wonderful communicative as well as social experience
for everyone involved. As a quick honest
aside, I think I should become friends with these ladies. First they successfully linked learning goals
to the making and eating of baked goodies and THEN Rachel mentioned not less
than 3 times that Ruby could put caramel on her cake…I would also like caramel
on cake! What do you say, let’s be friends!
Joy and Nike – Crafts with Ruby!
This is such an awesome way to address sharing with a child! I loved the idea that through a fun, creative
activity you could build in scarcity that encourages everyone around the table to ask for help, items and tools that they need in order to complete their
projects. It was finding a natural
environment that facilitates skills development. You two ladies are super stars!
Laurianne and Chelsea – Go Fish Game
Laurianne began their presentation with the thought that just because they
cannot speak does not mean that they do not have anything to say. It was beautiful and heartfelt and true. I love the link to physical materials that
everyone can benefit from, like the card mats that allows all children to blend
together. You were so right that the
format then could be extended out to other learning goals once it is familiar.
Alecia and Holly – Show and Share (and this time Barbie kept her top
on!)
This is a cool format for Show and Share with a series of questions to
identify the share item that is in the box with students guessing what the
object is based on the descriptors that the person who brought the item to
share. It seems like it lends itself
nicely as a great way to assess the speaking and listening outcomes for all
younger students. There could also be a
great deal of adaptibility of the language output of the game so that Ruby could
later be able to construct the sentences on her own and answer/ask more
questions.
David and John-Making Pizza!
Communication with a focus on pizza!
Could life be better than that? (No is the answer in case you were
wondering) Nick would be able to actually make a pizza and leave the class with
a completed pizza that he had made with his iPad generating his voice/thoughts/choices. What a great idea you had to include a review
of the end result in his communication opportunities! This sort of activity can be so easily connected
to math goals, functional math, etc. but even more significantly it can be
linked to social communication outcomes that involve the sharing and making of
the pizza.
Christine and Michelle - Baking Cookies with Ruby!
I loved how the strengths and challenges were divided into super clear
lists! The baking activity is a great
natural fit for communication because cookies are so very motivating…I mean I
would do just about anything for a cookie right now…wait, what were we talking about? Right, the cookie related
communication! It was a great idea to
use the numbers as there are so many potential opportunities for counting,
math, measurement within baking activity.
You guys made some super smart choices…you didn’t bring any cookies
though so…
Sheri and Nick – Shoot Around Game!
Sue and Terry – Show & Share with Ruby
You did a great job of starting from the ground up and allowing for the
development of foundational skills as you begin with Ruby sharing with one
student not the whole group. You
included the literal sharing of the item not just information which was brilliant
and such a great fit to your one-on-one scenario. I liked that Ruby would also have an
opportunity to name and request any of her classmates to be her sharing
partner, lovely independence and trust building!
Hi Tracy,
ReplyDeleteFirst I'd like to mention that your blog posts actually make me laugh out loud. This blog is YOU in real-life! I could have read it without knowing who wrote it and picked you as the author.
On another note, I am kind of glad that we are sitting in the same row in class not like across from each other when we are watching the videos. I am usually fine until I see someone else "sniffling" :-)
Thank you so very much for the feedback. I love the star! You mentioned in a previous post that you enjoyed working as a team on this activity, and I completely agree, not only did I have an awesome partner but, like you said, sharing ideas was definitely helpful.
You mentioned trust building above. I think that is super important. We mentioned Confidence building in our write up which I feel is along the same line. The more practice the kids get interacting with each other, the more confident they become and trust their peers more and more which will lead to more interactions.