BIA Clubhouse: Where Friendship Rules: The Explorers (Summer Outdoor Fun): Yummy Smoothies!

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.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

The Explorers (Summer Outdoor Fun): Yummy Smoothies!

Hello and High 5

Island Greetings: Islands with footprints were spread out on the floor. We danced around to music. When the music stopped, each student placed his or her feet on a set of footprints. The footprints were arranged in two parallel lines so that two kids faced each other. Students then greeted each other in different ways (e.g., high fives, wave, shake hands).

Orange Banana Smoothies: We were so excited to prepare our smoothies today. We followed our recipe (see Adventurers 8/18) and practiced cutting bananas and strawberries and using a juice squeezer to get freshly pressed orange and lemon juice. It was fun blending all the ingredients in the blender.

BIA Clubhouse: Where Friendship Rules