genie – Group by Group

This week we went with a fun theme—-Aladdin! The sensory group explored magical boxes. The fine motor groups made colorful art projects using recycled materials and the language group made some magic carpet treats!

SENSORY GROUP

Our magic carpet ride umbrella was colorful and eye catching! In addition to the Genie figure attached to the handle, there were Aladdin and Jasmine toy figures riding craft foam magic carpet to find.

To add to the experience, there was a voice output device with music from the movie.

Science access point: recognize a source of light.

We put a laminated picture of the Cave of Wonder for Aladdin and Abu to find as they trekked through kinetic sand.

At the bottom of the box there was also a picture of Aladdin.

Science access point: apply a push to move an object

The Cave of Wonder contained many treasures—-just like our discovery bottles.

Sequins, beads, glitter swirled around and were pretty mesmerizing!

Science access point: distinguish between objects in motion and at rest.

There were 6 colorful relatives of Abu to find in this box of turquoise beans. We put in 2 green, 2 purple, and 2 orange monkeys.

Fun to find AND hook together!

Math access point: recognize when an object is added to or taken away from a situation.

Our Rajah box was VERY eye catching and the students loved it! There were 2 big and 1 little tiger that were pretty well camouflaged in the orange rice and black beans.

A picture of Princess Jasmine could be found at the bottom of this box.

Math access point: recognize similarities and differences in size of common objects.

Food coloring gave our oobleck a genie-like tint this week!

It was fun to watch as it swirled around the tray or dripped off fingers!

Science access point: track objects in motion.

Hands were rinsed in Bath and Body Works jasmine-ginger scented water.

There was a letter A to find and 2 different scoops to use.

Math access point: recognize differences in sizes of containers that hold liquids.

Of course, we used the matching lotion!

The scent was a little different and definitely intriguing to the students!

Science access point: recognize one or more external body parts.

Most of the students liked the scent——-others not so much 🙂

We remembered that there were fireworks in the movie Aladdin and since we had a big supply of bubble wrap, we decided to end our group with our own fireworks!

Whether in wheelchairs or rolling chairs…..

……….. the students had a BLAST 🙂

FINE MOTOR GROUP

On Wednesday the students made magic carpets!

First, they identified the shape of their cardboard (we used cut up cereal boxes).

Math access point: recognize objects with a two-dimensional shape.

Then the student tore pieces of tissue paper. We gather our tissue from presents past, such as a recent baby shower 🙂

Science access point: recognize a change in an object.

The tissue paper was glued down.

Math access point: recognize when an object is added to or taken away from a situation.

We decided our carpets needed a little sparkle, so it was time to “shake, shake, shake that glitter”!

Math access point: indicate desire for more of an action or object.

The students glued pictures of themselves on to the cardboard and…….

…….TA DA!!!!!!!!!!

Let’s go on a magic carpet ride!

On Thursday the students made magic lamps using this template: genie lamp

First, we identified the color of the genie.

Science access point: identify objects by one observable property, such as color.

Then, the students painted their lamps using gold paint. Thanks to our wonderful volunteer Kaley who cut out the cardboard, glued the paper printout to it, and then stapled it to paper cups so the lamps would stand up!

Science access point: recognize that pushing and pulling an object makes it move.

Next, polyester fiberfil was pulled apart and glued to the top of the lamp.

Science access point: recognize a change in an object.

Ta-make a wish-Da!!!!!!!!

Time to let the genies out of their lamps!!!!!

LANGUAGE GROUP

We’re back to making a tasty snack this week. In honor of Aladdin, we made edible magic carpets! Here is the recipe that we used: Let’s Make Edible Magic Carpets

We started by talking about what we were going to MAKE. We discussed what “edible” means and our students had to convey that it is something that we can EAT.

The first thing we had to do was vote on a color for the magic carpets. We decided to choose between yellow and blue: our school colors. Each student voted and it was a tight race throughout. Since we had an even number of students and there was a tie, we had our Vision teacher make the tie-breaking choice. Blue magic carpets.

Math access point: associate quantities with number names.

We PUT a container of Cool Whip into a BOWL and added some drops of BLUE food coloring. Each student HELPed STIR the Cool Whip. We made observations about how it looked DIFFERENT once the food coloring was all mixed in.