Social Skills Session: Coping Skills July 30, 2019 Our Social Skills Teacher Ms. Melissa continues to provide her weekly social skills lessons. This Monday she focused on coping strategies that the kids can use when they feel angry or frustrated. Our students learned about taking
First Field Trip of 2019-Tanaka Farms July 5, 2019 Last Friday Mr. Sam, his students and their parents visited Tanaka Farms in Irvine. We visited the chicken coop, petted the chickens and inspected the chicken’s fresh eggs! We then boarded the tractor for the ride around
What Do You Like Best? June 5, 2019 In the past month we have increased our focus on social skill instruction and friendship building. As mentioned in a previous blog post, Melissa, our Social Skills Coordinator, will be an additional instructor and resource in the Academy for our students.
Social Skills Practice June 2, 2019 Social-emotional development is a core focus for our classroom. Knowledge and application of social skills are infused all day long within both academic and social activities and Mr. Sam and Karlie pull from a number of social skills curricula and books. Beginning in
Gamification in Kindergarten May 31, 2019 I am sure you have all heard the complaining about gamification of just about everything! Gamification basically refers to applying the concept of a game (i.e., rules and winning) to activities that generally do not include gaming elements, such as shopping, weight loss,
Being an Ambassador May 30, 2019 It can be stressful for a student to start in a new school and it can also make current students feel nervous. Our students tend to like routines and have difficulty with changes in routines, their environment or people. Although
Vocabulary Bingo with Leslie May 29, 2019 Leslie McCormack is our Speech and Language Therapist. She consults in our classroom once per month and provides guidance to Mr. Sam and works on a range of activities with the students. In this picture Ms. Leslie is working on vocabulary
O.T. Support May 15, 2019 We are lucky to have a wonderful occupational therapist Emily Menaker who provides guidance and support for our students. Emily has many years of experience working with students like ours. She is kind, focused, and brings a wealth of knowledge. She always has
Spring Art! May 13, 2019 We all worked together to create this beautiful painting! It was a great activity providing lots of opportunity to work together, to hold the brush correctly, to negotiate colors, to be flexible, and to talk about the seasons. Not to mention the end
Sight Words Activity May 10, 2019 This fun sight word activity involves Squashing Bugs! Mr. Sam tells the students we have been invaded we bugs and we need to exterminate immediately-before they take over our class! Each bug is "exterminated" by reading the word on the taped card
