Help us learn Life Skills!

School:: Golden Gate Elementary
Subject:: Special Needs Students
Teacher:: Gabriela Cardenas
Students Impacted:: 20
Grade:: K-5
Date:: August 1, 2022

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Judi Palay - $1,898.00

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 30

I cannot thank you enough for supporting our modified curriculum students here at Golden Gate Elementary School! Our students may have a variety of learning differences and disabilities, but they are still exceptional kids with similar interests to our general education students. Often times, it is overwhelming for parents, too expensive for families, or parents work several jobs and dont have the time to take their students to participate in a variety of community activities. Through this grant, my students were given an opporutnity to use their method of communication (verbal, AAC, picture exchange, gestures, etc) to order at a restaurant and learn resteraunt ettiquette, to learn turn taking and practice fine and gross motor skills during bowling, to learn about animals and the envrionment in the same way as the gen ed kids due by attending the wonder gardens and the conservancy, and to continue practicing being in a community setting where manners and self regulation skills are important, while practicing motor skills, during pottery painting. The students have been so excited prior to each trip, mastered riding busses with correct ettiquite, learned self regulation skills outside of the classroom and participated in several activities that their typically developing peers get to enjoy frequently. Thank you so much from all of us!!!

****Some of these activities and locations were modified from the original grant due to difficulty contacting and organzing trips to the originally intended locations.

Original Grant Overview

Goal

My goal is for our students identified as having an Intellectual Disability to practice and apply life skills in the community, so that they will become more self-confident, independent, and ready to participate in the real world without fear.

What will be done with my students

I will be giving my students equal opportunity as their typically developing peers, by taking them on one field trip each month for consistent application of life skills. Locations will be to common community places such as restaurants, grocery stores, movies, bowling etc. On these trips, the students will have the opportunity to use their mode of communication to order food, try new foods, use unfamiliar bathrooms, learn to ask strangers for help, learn etiquette and important social/communication skills. These field trips will encourage/increase vocabulary and world knowledge, encourage critical thinking and application of academics outside of the classroom.

Benefits to my students

Having the ability to venture out into the real world, with support, will provide our students with disabilities the same access and opportunities as typically developing kids. Often, parents of kids with disabilities are unable or are too overwhelmed to continually practice skills in social settings. Although academics are very important for these students, we want these students to be able to have a successful life after graduation. Knowing how to self-regulate in public settings, knowing how to ask for help, knowing how to apply math skills, reading skills and writing skills outside of the classroom, learning how to apply their speech, occupational and physical therapy techniques in the real world, is the way these students have a chance at having a real job or the chance to enjoy community living after graduation.

Budget Narrative

Movies:
$70 x 3 hours for bus = $120
$150 to rent out the theater
$160 for kids to practice ordering snacks

Bowling
$70 x 3 hours for bus = $120
$13 x 26 people = $338 entry fee

Aldi's and Chick-fil-a
$70 x 3 hours for bus = $120
$8x 20 kids to practice ordering food for lunch = $160

Publix:
$70 x 3 hours for bus = $120
$150 for students to practice checking out at register
$7 x 20 to practice ordering publix sandwiches = $140

Walmart:
$70 x 3 hours for bus = $120
$200 for students to practice shopping and checking out

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	Movies	$430.00
2	Bowling	$458.00
3	Aldi's and Chick-fil-a	$280.00
4	Publix	$410.00
5	Walmart	$320.00
	Total:	$1,898.00

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