Tuesday the third graders have the opportunity to participate in Ability Awareness. We will spend the afternoon meeting people with different abilities and learn that we are all more alike than different.
- We will meet Nancy Martin who will talk about having cerebral palsy.
- We will learn all about the life and daily challenges of being blind. We will learn how they problem-solve like cooking and telling the difference between bills in their wallet.
- We will meet Dianne Peters who is the Program Director of CHAMP Assistance Dogs. She will bring her own trained support dog for an active presentation about the program and some of the dog’s duties and skills. She will discuss the kinds of dogs used, how they are trained, and how people with special needs may benefit from a special CHAMP helper. The children will appreciate the value of the support dogs and how they assist people with special needs.
- We will meet Esther Murray who is hearing impaired and has teamed with Kara Simmons, director of the sign school at Concordia Seminary, who will sign and translate as Esther relives moments in life and shares her experiences living in a “hearing” world. The children will be introduced to sign language and will practice with Esther and Kara.
This is always such a wonderful day, and I look forward to the students being a part of it.
This week the students have their math test over chapters 15-16 (graphs and data) on Wednesday, Jan. 18th.
We are beginning our second chapter over economics in social studies this week.
In reading we are working on identifying the different text features in nonfiction.
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