More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Our students enjoy functional living tasks such as putting away dishes, sweeping, and assisting in washing and drying items. Our washer and dryer is a favorite chore task in our functional room and is chosen frequently from their choice boards more than other chores. While working the washer/dryer, we are able to exposed our students to academics, including grade level science concepts: recognizing states of matter (liquids... detergent and solids… clothing). Cause and Effect (dirty to clean, dry to wet and wet to dry). Different levels of temperature (hot, warm, and cold). Preposition vocabulary: putting clothes inside and taking clothes items out; turn on, turn off: Other vocabulary: sorting laundry by colors using color cards and clothes hampers; identifying clothing items and putting them in a dresser using pictures for visual cues.
One of our students had difficulty understanding colors and had challenges when working on matching/sorting by colors in the classroom. Using the functional room and sorting different textured colored clothes to sort and put in and out of the washer and dryer, we noticed they started to increase their knowledge of colors inside the classroom.
Our students love touching different textures; due to COVID-19 and our washer/dryer being broken and irreparable, we have had to temporarily get rid of clothing materials because we have no way to wash and sanitize them between uses.
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Our students enjoy functional living tasks such as putting away dishes, sweeping, and assisting in washing and drying items. Our washer and dryer is a favorite chore task in our functional room and is chosen frequently from their choice boards more than other chores. While working the washer/dryer, we are able to exposed our students to academics, including grade level science concepts: recognizing states of matter (liquids... detergent and solids… clothing). Cause and Effect (dirty to clean, dry to wet and wet to dry). Different levels of temperature (hot, warm, and cold). Preposition vocabulary: putting clothes inside and taking clothes items out; turn on, turn off: Other vocabulary: sorting laundry by colors using color cards and clothes hampers; identifying clothing items and putting them in a dresser using pictures for visual cues.
One of our students had difficulty understanding colors and had challenges when working on matching/sorting by colors in the classroom. Using the functional room and sorting different textured colored clothes to sort and put in and out of the washer and dryer, we noticed they started to increase their knowledge of colors inside the classroom.
Our students love touching different textures; due to COVID-19 and our washer/dryer being broken and irreparable, we have had to temporarily get rid of clothing materials because we have no way to wash and sanitize them between uses.