HOCKEY TEAM PROVIDES AWESOME DAY FOR ADAPTIVE PE STUDENTS
STAND STUDENTS VISIT FIRST GRADERS
STUDENTS ARE INSPIRED TO CREATE WITH LITTLE BITS
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BETHEL PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT
It was hard to tell who was having more fun— the hockey players or the skaters!
HOCKEY TEAM PROVIDES AWESOME DAY FOR ADAPTIVE PE STUDENTS
Members of the Bethel Park High School Varsity Hockey Team provided a morning of fun for 26 Bethel Park School District K-6 Adaptive Physical Education Students from Washington and Neil Armstrong!
The hockey team members were paired up with an Adaptive Physical Education student at the Spencer Family YMCA in Bethel Park for an hour of ice skating. The ice time and skates were generously donated by the Y, and the varsity players helped their new friends to put on their skates and take to the ice. There were plenty of smiles all the way around, and it was difficult to tell who was having more fun— the hockey players or their new friends! After an hour of skating, everybody enjoyed a pizza lunch. The Adaptive Physical Education students are taught by Linda Graney. This event began 17 years ago to bring the students together in a community setting that would build community skills for the adaptive physical education students.“ Everyone gains something from this experience,” explains Mrs. Graney.“ The adaptive PE students learn how to love life-long fitness and the hockey players gain a better understanding of others’ needs and the importance of reaching out in true friendship.”
At the end of the event, the PE students presented the hockey players with banners that the team proudly hung in the rink on Senior Night and during the Penguin Cup Playoffs.
The students thanked the hockey players by making banners to cheer them on during the Penguin Cup Playoffs.
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Students felt secure skating with the BPHS hockey players.
The Washington First Graders quickly looked up to the STAND Students as role models.
STAND STUDENTS VISIT FIRST GRADERS
A group of Bethel Park High School students who are members of STAND( Standing Together Against Negativity and Discrimination) visited both Washington
First Grade Classrooms to forge some new friendships.
The high school students read books on diversity to the younger students and talked to them about friendship, kindness and making good choices.
They answered questions and discussed different situations that the students might experience on the bus, playground and with friends, and how to handle them appropriately.
First grade teachers Mrs. Ellison and Mrs. Walsh were extremely impressed with this amazing group of high school students, and they were especially touched to see how their first grade students responded to the older students and looked up to them.
The teachers are hoping to make this visit by the STAND students an annual event!
The STAND students are sponsored by BPHS School Nurse Mrs. Ford.
STUDENTS ARE INSPIRED TO CREATE WITH LITTLE BITS
William Penn students were inspired to create solutions to real-world problems using LittleBits and other STEAM / STEM learning activities.
The unit was led by Librarian Mrs. Popvic and began with the reading of the story,“ What Do You Do With An Idea?’ by Kobi Yamada. The story teaches students that everything begins with an idea and that a single idea can grow into something much bigger.
Students used LittleBits to grow and develop their ideas. Little- Bits are electronic, color-coded bits that snap together to form different circuits. These circuits can be further developed to create different systems, such as flashlights, robotic cars, buzzers or doorbells.
This invention-based learning method empowered the students to explore through inventive activity. Students used different cards to guide them through the process, but ultimately they had the freedom to design their own prototype, collaborate and problem-solve together.
They realized that they have the power to become scientists, engineers and problem solvers.
Who knows, maybe the next big idea will come out of the William Penn Library?