Pirate Club 2012-2013
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2014-2015 school year
2013-2014 school Year
What is Pirate Club?
A Social Cognitive Class where students learn to think about others and more!
Pirate club is a collaborative effort using a push-in service model. A SLP, ABA specialist, my fabulous aide & myself teach specific & targeted skills twice a week. These skills are then practiced & reinforced through out the academic day. We have adapted some of Michelle Garcia Winner's fabulous social thinking curriculum and also created our own lessons to teach needed social cognitive skills. Our program, which started as a Pre K-2nd grade program now spans across all grade levels in our school district. The consistent curriculum & service model through the grades makes a big difference for these children. Aside from specialized curriculum , we consistently use ordinary board games with facilitation & modification as needed to facilitate these social, communication and interpersonal skills.
You should see our game collection and Read Aloud Books!
Games & stories are powerful learning tools.
Point of View ( Perspective)
Hey, Little Ant
What would you do if the ant you were about to step on looked up and started talking? This book offers two points of views ( boy vs. ant) about whether the boy should squish the ant. The children listened to the book, discussed each character's point of view, completed a Ven Diagram & point of View worksheet and then made their decision. These three students below also made an iMovie trailer to get others interested in reading the book.
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Interviewing each other on familiar topics while building the conversation tree with questions & answer.
A New Unthinkable has arrived.
JUST ME
Just Me only thinks about themselves and no one else.
We will spend the rest of the year working on perspective taking, point of view and just me thinking.
Valentine perspectives- Perspective taking is tricky!
Adding our own words to the key details to a wordless book
about Caring and Kindness using Comic Book App
A Circle of Friends
Superflex & the Unthinkables
are at our School!
Let's beat those Unthinkables !
Learn more Social thinking is the user-friendly term for “social cognition". MGWinner
Brain Eater!
He distracts us with his ITBD ( Inside the Brain Distractors)
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OTBD ( Outside the Brain Distractors) .
Distractor Blaster!
BLASTING away Brian Eater's power with our personal strategies!
Yell your strategy & then blast it with our Distractor Blaster
What was your strategy to defeat Brain Eater?
Good Bye Brain Eater
"look at the speaker", "move away from the distractor", " move the distractor away", "use a fidget", "face the group"
Introducing Glassman & Rock Brain
Oh- NO! Glass Man has been spotted with his best friend Rock Brain! “ Glassman lets a person be flexible to some extent, but then, all of a sudden he just breaks. He doesn’t melt down slowly, he quickly starts getting very upset. Glass Man usually thinks things aren’t fair” (Superflex… A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum ).
Social Stories
A Social Story™ describes a situation, skill, and develops a strategy for that situation to help students understand and improve their responses in that situation. Here we are planning & creating a story board for our iPad social stories. Once completed the story will come alive with Puppet Pals which is an iPad App. My students struggle joining games so this was a good story to start.
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What is a Social Story?A Social Story describes, reenacts a social situation, The goal of a Social Story™ is to share social information & problem solving by sharing ideas in a fun way using puppets initially in my class.
For more information click HERE EE Social Story -
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Student's Social Stories
These were developed & created independently. Nice work for their first attempt!
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