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Calais School in Whippany Celebrates National Therapy Animal Day with Dedication of New Dog Park

By |2021-05-03T13:31:46-04:00April 30th, 2021|Animal Assisted Activities, Animal Assisted Education, Animal Assisted Interventions, Animal Assisted Therapy, Calais Happenings, Counseling, High School, Inspiration, Lower School, Reading, Social Skills Building, The Arts at Calais|

The Calais School in Whippany observed National Therapy Animal Day on Friday, April 30 with a celebration of its Animal Assisted Interventions Program and a dedication of the new Calais Paw Park on the school campus. About 30 members of [...]

Daily Record Runs Front Page Story on AAI Program

By |2020-05-01T17:24:33-04:00May 1st, 2020|Animal Assisted Activities, Animal Assisted Education, Animal Assisted Interventions, Animal Assisted Therapy, Counseling, Reading|

The Calais School's Animal Assisted Intervention (AAI) Program was recently featured on the front page of the Daily Record. The paper's reporter Gene Myers wrote a story about how well our AAI program is adapting during the Covid-19 pandemic and [...]

AAI Program Dogs and Handlers Assist Calais Students During Pandemic

By |2020-04-20T16:15:15-04:00April 20th, 2020|Academics, Animal Assisted Activities, Animal Assisted Education, Animal Assisted Interventions, Animal Assisted Therapy, High School, Lower School, Occupational Therapy, Reading, Social Skills Building, Speech|

As many teachers and students deal with the challenges of distance learning during the coronavirus pandemic, Animal Assisted Intervention (AAI) dogs and their handlers face even more hurdles as they try to assist special needs students. At the Calais School [...]

The Calais School Celebrates Read Across America Week

By |2020-03-12T15:43:30-04:00March 6th, 2020|Lower School, Reading, Uncategorized|

It was a fun-filled week for students at The Calais School who feasted on green eggs and ham, enjoyed special dress-up days and listened to volunteers read to them as part of the school's Read Across America Week celebration. On [...]

¡Leer Un Libro!

By |2019-05-02T15:02:55-04:00May 2nd, 2019|Academics, Calais Happenings, Class Projects, High School, Lower School, Reading, Social Skills Building, Speech|

On April 23rd students in Ms. Mata's high school Spanish class just hosted their annual International Spanish Language Day celebration! Ms. Mata makes the event special for her students by including them in designing a custom t-shirt and slogan. This [...]

Reading Remediation and Dyslexia: Perspectives from an Orton-Gillingham Trained Specialist

By |2018-12-06T11:08:10-05:00January 21st, 2019|Reading|

If you are reading this now, chances are that you are a pretty good reader. You likely learned to read in school with the rest of your classmates and don’t even remember how it happened. It probably involved a mix [...]

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