North Haven Middle School And ACES Plant The Seeds For A Great Year!
by HEATHER MILLETT
Best Buddies Connecticut
Two participants sticking their hands to the Tree of Thanks
Best Buddies Tree of Thanks |
On November 20, 2009 participants from North Haven Middle School and ACES Village School reunited for some food, fun, and dancing. Last year the North Haven Middle School Best Buddies Chapter joined forces with the local ACES Village School in order to provide more opportunities for one-to-one friendships.
ACES Village School is a school for children with cognitive, physical, behavioral, language, and medical challenges; partnering with the North Haven Middle School Best Buddies chapter allows for interactions students may not experience otherwise.
A bus load of almost 70 NHMS students arrived to ACES that Friday afternoon. Immediately, these students scattered themselves among the ACES participants in hopes of making new friends and reuniting with some familiar faces.
The event began with a Giving Thanks activity. Participants traced and cut each others hands on construction paper, colored the hands, and wrote what they were thankful for. These hands then became the leaves on the large Best Buddies Tree of Thanks banner.
When the tree was complete, participants rushed over to the schools gym where the music was blasting! The song Loco-Motion was given a whole new meeting when participants of all abilities joined together to form a train close to 80 people in length.
What a great way to end the school week and start the Best Buddies Year! |
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