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Hello from the Next Steppers! We are having a great day and are enjoying the beautiful snow! We tried to walk and get a coffee but the sidewalks were covered in snow and we didn't think we could safely walk all the way to Dunkin Donuts, so instead we came back to STRIVE and made tea. We did stop to take a picture in the snow, however!



This morning and afternoon the group has been working very hard to write an article about our movie premiere social event last Friday. We worked in small group t...
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We had a great week this week at Next STEP.  It ended with the movie premier of our Social Skills Video on Friday morning.  As a group the class will update on Monday including pictures of everything that happened this morning surrounding the grand preview of the video. We will also work to update the video on our website.

Also please be sure to let Kristine, Jennifer or Pete know what the holiday schedules are for the next couple of weeks for your participant.

Thanks 

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We forgot to mention a very important event that took place last week- it was Jimmy's 22nd birthday on Tuesday, December 4! Jimmy asked the group if they would like to go out to eat to celebrate his birthday, so on Tuesday everyone did a great job of planning ahead and bringing money to buy lunch at Subway. Everyone had a great time!



We also have an exciting announcement: Next Step will be hosting our Social Skills Movie Premiere this Friday, December 14! The movie will be shown at a social ev...
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Hello from Jennifer! I am filling in for Rory during the month of December while a new teacher is located. I am a social worker and moved to Maine in June, and I have been working with STRIVE since the summer as a counselor for Camp STRIVE, work support at Eric's pizza cart, and project-based work with STRIVE U. I am happy to be working at Next Step!

This week was full of math, money skills and holiday crafts! The group has been doing a great job with math word problems, which help us learn ho...
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Hello Nextsteppers and Friends!
We've had a good week here at Nextstep, which Yvonne told you a little about.  Today (Thursday) we did a lot of work around independent grocery shopping, which was a lot of fun.  Nate and Patrick did some holiday activities on the Smartboard while Jim, Jackie and Evan worked on their math skills in the afternoon.  A walk was attempted and forsaken because of how chilly it was out.  As Kristine mentioned in a previous post, I will be moving on from Strive and to...
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~THANKSGIVING BREAK~
By:Yvonne Leech

            I hope everyone had a very lovley thanksgiving, I know that mine was absolutely amazing. Did you go somewhere or stay home to see your family? Did you fill your belly with all thanksgiving fixings.Sometimes I eat so much on thanksgiving I feel like I am in a food coma. But, Now its time to get back into our regular schedule, sometimes that can be hard after a long holiday weekend. This is my first day back this week, But the other Nextstepper...

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Above is a picture of the Jeopardy Game that Rory created for the class. It had different catagories of things we have been working on in class like money vocabulary, how we could pratice the skills we have been working on, seeing if we could figure out what things cost and budgeting things. We had alot of fun playing it on the smart board and got lots of points remmbering the things we have learned in Next STEP.  
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