BIA Clubhouse: Where Friendship Rules: Games Galore: Red Light/Green Light (The Adventurers)

The Clubhouse is the Behavioral Intervention Association's (http://www.bia4autism.org) after-school program. Once a week, children between the ages of 5 and 12, who have communication and social challenges, meet and engage in fun activities to practice different social skills. The Explorers focus on skills such as staying with the group, greetings, turn taking, participating independently in activities, and brief exchanges with peers. The Adventurers focus on skills such as initiating and maintaining conversations, perspective taking, and negotiating with peers.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Games Galore: Red Light/Green Light (The Adventurers)

GO!!!

Red Light/Green Light: We took turns holding the signs and being the traffic light and practiced paying close attention to the signs. The green sign meant that we had to run as fast as we could to get to the other side. When the red sign was up, we had to stop.

Group Hug

Monkey Board Game: We also played our Clubhouse Monkey Game again. Before we started the game, we discussed how to play fair and be good sports during the game. We practiced using encouraging and kind words such as: "Yeah, you got it."/"Way to go."/"That's okay."

Friendship Board and Tokens: We continued to use our friendship board and earned friendship tokens for showing good friendship behavior throughout session (e.g., cheering, following the group rules, participating in all Clubhouse games, taking over group responsibilities). Each student has to earn three friendship tokens that are traded in for a prize at the end of each session.

BIA Clubhouse: Where Friendship Rules