Wisconsin School for the Deaf - The Wisconsin Times Vol. 134 No. 1 Fall 2012 | Page 10

Adaptive Education Department
by Heather Martens

Animal Shelter
Andrew Vasilyev, Roberto Gonzalez, and
Julian Ortiz visited the Lakeland Animal
Shelter bringing cat food, cat litter, and some
toys for the dogs to donate to the shelter. The
boys were able to visit with the animals. All
of the students did not quite like the dog area
because it was really loud but loved looking
at the smaller dogs. After having their fill of
the loud dogs we went to visit the cat area.
The boys fell in love immediately with the
cats there because they were able to hold
and pet them. The boys asked why all of
the cats can not be let out at the same time.
The caretaker explained that they have six
rows of cages with eight cages in each row
and more than one cat in each cage. Letting
them all out at once would not be possible
especially because some of the cats are the
same color. It would be too confusing to
figure out which cat belonged in which cage.
Before we left, to return to WSD, we spotted
a field where they had goats penned up. We
went down to have a quick visit with the
goats. Andrew and Julian were able to feed
them some hay and were tickled when the
goats took the hay from their hands.

Cities and Farms
High school city planners, Charley,
Brandaun, Naomi, Cindy, and Michael
learned about cities and farms. More
specifically they learned how they are
different in many ways. Cost of living in
both of those areas was discussed as well as
how the land is set up is differently. In cities
the houses are close together whereas in rural
areas the houses are more spread out. They
discussed reasons why they were designed
in that fashion. After discussing about life on
a farm, and life in a city, the class decided
to build their own city using a paper model.
They named their city and streets.
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Pearce Farms
Heather Marten’s class
invited Angel Lapworth and
Barbara Leetzow’s classes to
join them on their mobility
trip to Pearce Farm. At the
farm, students learned about
how the past summer had
impacted their crops and
that their corn did not grow
very well this year. However,
Pearce Farms had several
trailers full of pumpkins for
the students to look at and
compare sizes from the Apple
Barn that they visited the
week before. The students
were monkeys playing on
the hay bales that were set up
specifically for this purpose.
We took a quick trip through
the corn maze and the
students figured out how to
get around quite easily.