Dynamic Opportunities News 2023
Is your child struggling with any of the following at school and/or home? Getting easily frustrated; Meltdowns; Regulating strong emotions; Understanding other people’s points of view; Compromising; Understanding and following rules; Cooperating with others; Thinking before acting; Problem-solving age appropriate situations? Never fear – You are not alone! WE’VE GOT YOUR BACK! Laura Gabriele, MA…
In the Dynamic Classroom
MATH
The Blue Room and the Imagineer’s Room continued working with a number line. The Blue Room counted out the numbers and the Imagineer’s Room used it to add numbers together. The Imagineer’s Room played a fun addition game using dice while the Blue Room played Trouble and counted as they moved their markers around the game board.
The Creative Arts Room and the Steam Room continued working on fractions. They did a great with fraction bingo and correctly identified the fractions given to them. Both classes finished the class with a game of Yam Slam. They are getting better at counting their points at the completion of the game.
POISONOUS PIZZA ESCAPE ROOM
The school was in full escape room madness this week! The Case of the Poisonous Pizza group (Mrs. Braxton, Ms Katie and Mrs. Zobel) worked on multiple math challenges including money, number lines, coordinate graphs, fractions and patterns. While all of that was going on, the group decorated their room to look like a Puppies Pizza Shop. Mrs. Zobel had brought in her two foster puppies and they got to be photographed in pizza boxes! Our escape room was too cute!
The students were challenged to get out of our escape room. Each group took approximately 40 minutes and every level had something to do!
MUMMY ESCAPE ROOM
In our projects group for this unit we created an ancient Egyptian themed escape room! Participants had to complete four separate tasks, after each task was completed, they would receive a gold coin which they would then use to eventually prove completion of all tasks and be able to escape the labyrinth underneath the pyramid. Students completed true false puzzles, colored, cut, and glued multiple different artifacts, completed reading comprehension questions, participated in a scavenger hunt of king tuts tomb, and finally complete a timeline of events in ancient Egypt.
SCIENCE ESCAPE ROOM
In class this week we worked on our group escape rooms getting them ready. Thursday each group traveled to different classrooms participating in each escape room. Animal and Plant Adaptations was the one for science. Students learned coordinates, adaptations, problem solving, and teamwork everything that we have been working on in STEM. Each group did an amazing job! Next week we will start life cycles and gardening. I will send more information next week about the gardening aspect of our classes.
DAILY LIVING SKILLS
In Life Skills, we helped out Brooks Ave to get ready for the carnival! Each class was challenged to see how many info bags they could stuff! We had 14 pieces of info that had to be put in each bag. Steam room stuffed 90 bags, Creative Arts stuffed 125 bags, Blue room stuffed 25 bags and Projects room stuffed 71. We had a total of 400 bags to stuff and Tristan and Catelyn plus a few other friends finished the last 89 bags! To say the least Mr. Ethan and Mrs. Zobel were IMPRESSED!
