Happy Grandparents Day!

What a wonderful time we had celebrating our families and special friends.  We enjoyed performing our radio drama for a live audience that reacted, laughed, and reminisced.  We had fun playing a generation gap game and comparing junior high "Then and Now."  We ended with chapel led by the 7th graders and a great reminder of love between the generations, in good times and bad, and our great loving God who first loved us.

Thanks to all the grandparents and special friends who were able to spend the morning with us.  Our prayers go to those who could not attend.  You are still a special part of our lives!

In Religion - a trading game about values

Things got pretty heated as students tried to hang on to love and truth, but sneakily trade the "devil" card

Enjoying time with our grandparents

Last Week's Disability Unit

What would it be like to be blind?

Butter a cracker?  What cracker?

Guides had to be very specific with directions

We learned that getting guided from behind made us very uneasy!

HERE is the butter!

Simulating deafness - a lip reading activity

We learned to talk slowly and enunciate or exaggerate our mouth movements

Still we couldn't figure out what was being said

Simulating visual processing disorder and a time delay in the thought process - read the colors of the words, not the words.

How about a physical disability?  How would you cut with one arm?

This station had kids use simulations at the PBS website "Misunderstood Minds" to see what ADHD is like

Another visual processing disorder - reversals

Tracing while looking in a mirror is quite frustrating!