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. Thanks to the generosity of our friends at the Jewish Community High School of The Bay who have given us access to their beautiful campus and their committed student volunteers, we were able to bring our East Bay Clubhouse program to San Francisco.
Art Project “Shoebox Race Car”: We
were divided into small groups in order to start with our 2-week
project. The objective was to build a race car using a shoebox. First,
we decorated 4 discs (i.e.,
our wheels) with stickers and/or sharpies. Then, we painted a shoebox
together
and also attached tissue paper to the box.
Some cooperative strategies/ideas:
- Students discuss the design of their car.
- Students brainstorm different team names and then take a vote to determine the race car team name.
Cooperative Race “The Rope Train”: We held on to a jump rope with one hand and then
started to move together as a group and pretended to be a train. We were
not allowed to let go of the rope while we were running. Like our game
with the hula hoops from last week, this required lots of cooperation
and teamwork. After each completed turn, the player in front moved to
the back and a different player took over the position of the driver.
