Welcome Parents!
Room 11, Life Skills
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Mrs. K
Ms. C / S
Mrs. Yost
Welcome
Welcome new parents…
Welcome new staff…
New Programs… (Grades 1-3)
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Math:
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Everyday Math in Ms. Devine’s class
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A problem-solving approach based on everyday
situations
Key mathematical ideas repeated over time in slightly
different ways
Learning through age-appropriate, playful activities
A broad range of FUNCTIONAL math topics
Wonderful way to communicate with other students
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How can you do math at home??
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New Programs: (Grades 1-3)
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Reading:
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ELSB: Early Literacy Skills Builder: pre-literacy
curriculum for verbal and nonverbal students
focusing on:
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Vocabulary (sight words)
Comprehension
Phonemic awareness (recognizing letters / sounds)
Alphabetic understanding (phonics: identifying words
using picture symbols)
Units: People, feelings, pets, activities, places, party,
presents
New Programs…(Grades 1-5)
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Language for Learning
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Teaches children the words, concepts and
statements important to both oral and written
language.
Units:
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Basic actions
Descriptions of objects
Information and background knowledge
Instructional words
Classification
Problem solving strategies
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Continued Programs
Math: SRA Math: Grades 4-5
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1-on-1 instruction
highly-structured curriculum
working continuously on many topics
Reading: Reading Mastery:
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1-on-1 direct instruction
picture comprehension
Sequencing events
Phonics: sounding out words in chunks
Sentence writing
story comprehension
Typing
New Programs: Grades 4-5
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Writing: Language for Learning, after lesson
100, move into Reasoning and Writing for
beginning writers
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Spelling
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Edmark: Computer: Survival Words / Signs
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Functional Science and Social Studies
Continued Programs…All
Students
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Independent Skills: Monday / Friday (Survival
signs, kitchen, telephone skills, housekeeping,
organization, recreational skills, personal
information, pre-vocational skills, fine motor
skills)
Cooking: Tuesday
Social Skills: Wednesday
Adapted PE: Thursday
CBI Trips
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The Market by Shady Brook Farm
Albert Schweitzer Elementary
Post Office
Giant Supermarket
Willow Grove Mall
Aquarium
Bowling
Storybook Musical Theatre
Sports Zone
Barnes and Noble
Panera Bread
Franklin Institute
Maggios Restaurant
Petsmart
Abington SPCA
Website…
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Newsletters
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Pictures
Important Dates
Great websites
Pine Road Postal System
Anticipated Opening:
January 2012
Project Overview:
A school-wide postal system called “Pine Road Post Office” will be established at
Pine Road Elementary in the Lower Moreland Township School District. This
program will focus on providing vocational skills to life skills students, as well as
promoting writing and social skills among all the students at Pine Road. It is
expected that by providing the vocational skills to the life skills students, they will
able to use the skills learned to be active working members of the Huntingdon
Valley Community.
The Pine Road Post Office will utilize the life skills students as postal workers.
Each student will be expected to successfully participate in the year-long program.
They are expected to contribute 3-4 hours each week. The students will use a map
of the school to locate classrooms on their route. Once a week they will pick up the
mail from each classroom, sort the mail and deliver the mail to the correct
classrooms. They will clock in and out of each shift, teaching the students about
time. They will also receive a weekly paycheck that they can cash and use at the
classroom school store, aiding in teaching the students money skills.
All students in the school will be expected to write post cards to their pen pals in
various grade levels. The teachers will teach the students conventions of writing as
well as how to write post cards, letters and fill out envelopes. At the end of the
year, the students will get together with their pen pals for a meet-and-greet picnic.
What are the goals for our
students?:
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Goal #1 – The students will follow a task analysis not
exceeding 5 steps
Goal #2– The students will clock in and out of their shift. They
will use a calculator to figure out how much time they worked.
Goal #3– Given a map of the school, the students will be able
to locate various classrooms on their “route”.
Goal #4– The students will be able to pick up, sort and drop
off mail to the various classrooms.
Goal #5- The students will be able to use conventions of
writing to write letters, post cards and fill out envelopes.
Goal #6-The students will be able to correctly match numbers
1-113 in order to sort the mail into the appropriate mailboxes.
How Can You Help?
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We are in need of the following items to begin
our postal system:
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Wagon
Mail Bags
White shirts (So we can make our uniforms)
Any Questions????