HURON HIGH SCHOOL
• Students in Samantha Kruse’s Developmental Learning Classroom (DLC) at Huron High School work on basic academic and functional life skills. Students in the classes participate in daily living skills such as laundry and other household chores, shopping and running errands. The students practice social skills first with role playing activities then practicing the skills throughout the week in their daily lives.
Currently, one of the classes is discussing being an employee, which includes topics like knowing your qualifications, knowing how to cooperate, treating others with respect, comparing benefits, being responsible, and completing job applications.
The DLC Math class is working on number skills, using a calculator effectively, and money skills. DLC Language Arts class practices relaying personal information orally, in written form and by using an electronic device, additionally they work on vocabulary skills and grammar.
Submitted by Samantha Kruse
• Terri Anderson-Schlader’s Algebra 1.1 class at Huron High School recently worked on an escape room. The students had to solve a series of multiple step inequalities. The escape room consisted of three levels, before the students were able to break out.
Each level had to be correct before the students could move on to the next level of the escape room.
Once the students completed all three levels, they received their break-out key to complete their escape. The students worked in two teams to complete the levels of escape. Not only did they have to work and improve their algebra skills, they also had to work on cooperation. Each team successfully escaped.
Submitted by Terri Anderson-Schlader, M.Ed.
BUCHANAN K-1 CENTER
• Preschool students at the Buchanan K-1 Center have been busy exploring and learning through hands-on activities. The early childhood special education program at Buchanan K-1 Center serves children ages 3-5 with a wide range of abilities and educational needs in the preschool setting. Each week the classes focus their learning on one letter, number, shape, and color through activities that encourage communication, turn taking, and following directions. While learning pre-academic skills, the children engage in a variety of activities with teachers and peers that encourage social skills and self-help skills to help prepare them to be independent in the classroom setting. Some of the favorite activities this year are building letters with manipulatives, number scavenger hunts, sorting items by color, stamping and cutting shapes, singing songs, and doing crafts.
Submitted by Marisa Krekelberg, ECSE Teacher
