November: Cooperation and Disability Awareness

This will be the bulletin board by the front door at VES. Each student and staff member colored a puzzle piece that is uniquely them. Together, we make a beatiful family and missing just one piece would make our puzzle look different.

Each person is a piece of our VES family.

The K-2 students learned about coopearation and uniqueness through by first reading The Crayon Box that Talked by Shane DeRolf, discussing how each of us share things in common and also have differences that make us special. Next, the students were divided into groups and handed a certain pieces of a puzzle. The students then worked together to complete the puzzle.

The 3-5 students first colored their puzzle piece for the bulletin board, then we read and discussed different disabilities in a Disability Awareness Student Booklet (FREE on TPT). The booklet discusses visual and hearing impairments, autism, emotional impairments, physical impairments, speach or language impairments, cognitive impairments and learning disabilities. The students got to take the booklets home to share with their parents.