Mickey Cox Elementary students learn life skills while creating digital 'Lost and Found'

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- As with each simple school, the mislaid and recovered grows arsenic the twelvemonth goes on.

"It's benignant of insane however overmuch the kids suffer connected campus, and it would conscionable get piled into a elephantine bin," Special Education Teacher Casey Linnenkohl said.

That elephantine bin astatine Mickey Cox Elementary School isn't looking arsenic afloat these days.

That's acknowledgment to Linnenkohl's students.

The 3rd done sixth graders are portion of the functional beingness skills class.

They each person antithetic disabilities.

During the day, they're learning societal skills, adaptive regular surviving skills and academics.

So erstwhile Linnenkohl was looking for ways to get the covering items backmost to their owners and a mode to get her students much progressive astir campus, she came up with the "Cowboy Closet."

"First, we person to marque definite the sleeves are each the mode in," Juan Pablo "JP" Gonzalez said.

They propulsion each of the items retired and enactment them connected hangers.

"Second, we person to zip it up truthful the hanger doesn't autumn disconnected it," JP said.

Then cautiously instrumentality inventory.

"Do you retrieve what size it was?" Linnenkohl asked.

They bash this for each item, and each pupil takes part.

"JJ, what bash you have? What color?" Linnekohl asked.

JJ clicked a fastener connected his iPad, and it work disconnected the connection "grey."

Each point gets a tag, 1 pupil snaps a representation and past everything is hung up connected the rack.

"My favourite portion is hanging up the apparel because, well, it's beauteous simple," JP said.

The items besides spell online, allowing parents to look done the mislaid and recovered from home.

"Lots of parents who can't get to the schoolhouse during the hours that they're allowed to spell successful and look astatine it, this has made it a batch easier for them to beryllium capable to assertion their kids' stuff," Linnenkohl said.

Once parents assertion an item, the students grip the rest.

They bundle it up and present it to the student's schoolroom connected campus.

Linnenkohl says her students person taken ownership of their caller role, and it's helped others spot them successful a antithetic light.

"I deliberation it's truly opened the eyes of a batch of students and teachers connected campus, and unit and parents to spot that each the things that they can do alternatively of things that they can't do. It's focusing connected the positive," Linnenkohl said.

The schoolhouse has posted QR codes astir field for the integer mislaid and found. They besides station it successful their newsletter. You tin cheque retired their virtual mislaid and recovered by clicking here.

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