curriculum+projects

Classroom Description: The preschool class consists of 7 students with special needs and 8 children without special needs. The class is staffed with 4 paraprofessionals and a special education teacher. Children receive therapy from a Speech and Language Pathologist, Occupational Therapist, and Physical Therapist as needed.

The children's limitations include: language processing, receptive language, expressive language, fine motor and gross motor impairments, and interfering behavior. The children without special needs are typically developing in all areas, although their developmental level varies. Children benefit from switch access to the computer, text-speech, and positioning (rifton chairs). The children have experience and practice using interactive software, interactive topic boards. The children are able to navigate on an iPad and touchscreen. The children are able to parallel play with peers. The children participate in read-aloud activities each day.

Information is presented using multiple means of representation (digital, paper, dynamic topic/story boards, voice thread, classroom suite, smart board interactive activities, boardmaker, Kurzweil, etc). The children are able to express their skills/knowledge using interactive smart board, verbal expression, voice output. The children's interest and motivation are fostered using hands-on activities, manipulating pictures and text, using real life pictures of themselves, and motivating content.

The class has 1 computer, 1 iPad, 1 interactive smart board, switch interface, big mac switch, switch mount, step-by-step, and scanner. Software includes Boardmaker SD Pro, Classroom Suite, Kurzwiel, Notebook Software, voice thread subscription. There are 4 rifton chairs with trays.

All activities presented electronically are also presented using real objects.

The following document is table describing the curriculum activities. This is the I Like Fall Voice thread link. Students will take pictures/find pictures and narrate their own picture. Students who cannot speak will use a step-by-step recorded from a peer. @http://voicethread.com/share/2166256/

The Book "There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Leaf" has been scanned into Kurzweil so students are able to independently read the book with text - to - speech.

Images of the old lady and the items she swallowed have been imported into the Smart Notebook software. She can move the items around on the Smartboard to feed the old lady.

Students can read the book, I Like Fall, on the IPAD using the app.

This is a boardmaker fall book. The children can use the computer or smart board to feed the old lady (based on the "The Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves."



Sorting fall and not-fall pictures. Enable the sound by going to preferences - sound- listen tool - and then click on ear in toolbar. Make the page bigger by clicking on the mountain symbols at the bottom left corner of the page.

Simple Cause/Effect Fall puzzle created in classroom suite. Can be accessed through a switch or touch screen.

A simple book using fall vocabulary to demonstrate prepositions on and off. This book corresponds to hands-on off computer activities as well.

An example of a choice board. Students can drag their name to a center.