Dear blog readers
Today we had an Abilities awareness day. There were seven stations that taught you about other people’s different abilities. In the front foyer Mrs. Lester came In with some wheelchairs, but before we got to ride them she showed us a power point on what different things people used to get around. Some of them were wheelchair, scooter, walker and a cane. Some people just use a cane and a walker for balance because they can’t balance that good. After the power point we got to pick partners and go on an obstacle course. We had to go down the hallway, get a drink of water then go up the ramp coming from the outside doors, turn around and the go down. When we got down we had to go into the handicapped bathroom and close the door the after that you had to open the door and it was hard. We had to go down the hallway and go in and out and in of the front entrance (we have two sets of doors) and then we had to switch with a partner. Remember we had to open doors and move the wheelchair with only our hands!
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| Colin opening the door in a wheelchair. |
In room 8 we had a lesson on Vision. We all got in to groups. Ryan.W, Cam and I were in a group. Everybody got goggles that had a special amount of vision. There wasn’t enough goggles to go around so we got to go into the hallway and we took turns blind folding each other and “being blind.” We had a stick to navigate where we were and one of us made a buzzing sound with a battery and a buzzer. Then we had to go back to room 8 and let another group try.
And the other stations were: Computer lab was learning disabilites so we tried writing with the wrong hand, Room 29 was fine motor so you did stuff like we didn’t have hands or legs, Library speech and language we got to play on I pods( only on speech apps), Library there was a hearing station where we learned about sign language and conference room was Cognition where we got to evaluate our selves. I was strong in the math area. The day was awesome because we got to go around doing stuff and it was fun. I learned a lot about how people function differently.
By Colin
By Colin
5 comments:
Colin, I am very pleased with the progress you have made in your writing. It had details and was interesting to read. Keep up the good work!
Grandma Herbst
Great blog post Colin. What was your favourite station. Did you have fun too!
Ryan
Hey colin!
I liked Ability Awareness day. I didn't get to do the vision station. What was your fave station?
not including viosion?!!
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-Robbie
Wow,Colin great blog post.What was your favourite station. Mine was the one with the obstical course while being in a wheelchair.
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Melina
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Colin
I
really liked your blog post i liked the awareness day to
aidan
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