Friday, February 19, 2010

Milkshakes are Special Ed Approved

The kids in our class get these little containers of strawberries with their school breakfasts, and being that they're preschoolers, they usually share a container and we put the others in the fridge for another time.

Well, we ended up with a bunch of these little containers and the teacher had an awesome idea...we needed to make strawberry milkshakes!

She went and got some vanilla ice cream then we put some in a cup for each kid, added a little strawberries, a little milk, and had them stir (sequencing and fine motor skills) then they had to suck it through a straw (oral skills), plus they were sitting at the table practicing their social skills. See, it was all in the name of education! (And of course we grown-ups had one too...role modeling, you see...yeah, that's the ticket!)

3 comments:

Jules AF said...

I fully support this.

Momza said...

Yum Yum!
Bet the kids LOVED IT!

Arya said...

mmmmm....strawberry milkshakes are the best! I bet that was one of many great days for them...one they will talk about for years & years...'cause a strawberry shake is never forgotten...

Now I must go make one, I have frozen strawberries in the freezer & milk in the fridge...