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trying to have a playground for a new small school
posted by glosing on Oct 2 2008

I am a special needs teacher of preschool children with autism. My school has about 120 children at the current site. Our school is the early childhood school for our county. We have 2 inclusive 4-k classes and 1 inclusive kindergarten class. There are 10 classes of preschoolers with special ....

Worldwide Day of Play
posted by tux&dot on Oct 2 2008

Burgess-Peterson Academy hosted it's 4th annual Worldwide Day of Play on September 27, 2008 in celebration of a Nickelodeon grant in 2004. As an official host site, the families that came out participate in Float'r Volleyball, Football obstacle course, basketball, jump rope, bean....

Phoenix WE Play!
posted by kwilson on Oct 2 2008

Hello Phoenix! On behalf of the Boomer Training Team, I must tell you that we're excited to meet each of you on October 10th! We have a fun and dynamic Workshop Entirely on Play just for you. This one day training will be brief (there is no playground build the following day) but memorable. You'....

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Servic e Learning
Posted: 30 Apr 08 7:05 PM

I just finished working with the amazing Bale Elementary in Little Rock, Arkansas. The group of teachers, parents, and staff implemented service learning throughout the entire project and truly taught their students about giving back. Here are some ideas that you may find helpful to get youth interested:

- Casual for a Cause- an initiative to raise money that allowed kids a "school uniform holiday" on Friday if they brought in $1. They raised over $600 during the planning process.

- Every class did a project to decorate the hallway and thank and welcome the volunteers. They did this for both Design Day AND Build Week

- A group of kids were included in the maintenance plan and will help with upkeep, bolt tightening, trash pick-up, and to ensure proper safety surfacing levels.

- The speech therapist brought her students out to teach and practice words like: circular saw, wheelbarrow, and safety glasses.

- Every class also came out to write stories about what they saw, watch, or simply thank volunteers. They had the back door of the school open and kids came out to ask questions and interact with the volunteers.

- After the build they wrote thank you letters to all the organization and companies that made donations.

- And they also had a few 5th grade boys who helped on prep day with landscaping and picking up trash.

- After the build the principal also asked every class to GIVE BACK in some way since they were so blessed to be on the receiving end of this project. One class has agreed to clean up the cafeteria of all trash each morning after breakfast before going to class, one class is going to make cards for the veterans at the VA hospital and so far one class has agreed to pick up trash on the playground.

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