Social Skills Group

Once a week we have the pleasure of welcoming our school social worker, Ms. Weston, and our speech teacher, Mrs. Frazee, into our classroom for a group lesson on social skills.  The lessons include fun activities that provide practice in skills such as turn taking, following directions, greeting others, etc.  So far this school year we have participated in a pretend grocery shopping experience, a game similar to hot potato, and some fun songs. 

This past week our group lesson was based on the skill of greeting others.  The students practiced making eye contact and using their words to say hello.  The video below shows a glimpse of the two activities from the lesson.  During the first activity the students took turns entering the classroom and greeting a friend and Ms. Weston.  In the second activity, the students pretended to be getting onto the school bus and greeting their driver.

 

 (I'm hoping by posting the video this way it will turn out clearer than the videos from last year's blog.  The video is hosted on my school youtube account, but is not available by search on youtube for privacy and safety reasons.)