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Life lessons: Deaf and hearing kids learn by playing together: AMNews.com
Standing among about 30 fourth- and fifth-grade children from Jennie Rogers Elementary School and Kentucky School for the Deaf, physical education teacher Brent Beauman said it was time for “the best thing about PE.”
The children stood in their circle, excited about what was going to happen next.
Beauman brought out a multi-colored parachute, and the kids spent the next several minutes screaming in the gym as they raised the parachute up and down, working together to make balls go as high as they could.
The activity was part of Deaf Awareness Week. Students from the fourth- and fifth-grade PE class at KSD came to Jennie Rogers on Tuesday morning to play and learn together.
KSD PE teacher Scott Johnson said it was a good exercise for students and one he hopes can happen again.
“It’s a nice cooperative thing to happen,” he said.
The kids spent the hour-long class building hula hoop huts, playing parachutes games and teaching each other new activities, including The Elephant Game, where students stand in a circle and make elephant trunks and ears when pointed out by a student in the center.
Johnson said since The Elephant Game was the last game played, it was a little short, but he was happy to see that the Jennie Rogers children continued to play the game as KSD students were leaving.
“That was fun to watch,” he said.
Jennie Rogers students practiced a sign language greeting and welcomed the 12 KSD students when they arrived.
And even though Beauman’s students were nervous before class started, he said the joint exercise went the way he hoped it would.
Beauman said the lesson was important to teach his students that the KSD students aren’t any different from the Jennie Rogers students.
“They’re still kids,” Beauman said. “They like to be active and have fun.”
Standing among about 30 fourth- and fifth-grade children from Jennie Rogers Elementary School and Kentucky School for the Deaf, physical education teacher Brent Beauman said it was time for “the best thing about PE.”
The children stood in their circle, excited about what was going to happen next.
Beauman brought out a multi-colored parachute, and the kids spent the next several minutes screaming in the gym as they raised the parachute up and down, working together to make balls go as high as they could.
The activity was part of Deaf Awareness Week. Students from the fourth- and fifth-grade PE class at KSD came to Jennie Rogers on Tuesday morning to play and learn together.
KSD PE teacher Scott Johnson said it was a good exercise for students and one he hopes can happen again.
“It’s a nice cooperative thing to happen,” he said.
The kids spent the hour-long class building hula hoop huts, playing parachutes games and teaching each other new activities, including The Elephant Game, where students stand in a circle and make elephant trunks and ears when pointed out by a student in the center.
Johnson said since The Elephant Game was the last game played, it was a little short, but he was happy to see that the Jennie Rogers children continued to play the game as KSD students were leaving.
“That was fun to watch,” he said.
Jennie Rogers students practiced a sign language greeting and welcomed the 12 KSD students when they arrived.
And even though Beauman’s students were nervous before class started, he said the joint exercise went the way he hoped it would.
Beauman said the lesson was important to teach his students that the KSD students aren’t any different from the Jennie Rogers students.
“They’re still kids,” Beauman said. “They like to be active and have fun.”
