This week the Lighthouse Students visited Ojai Stitchworks and Celtic Designs, a local company that does embroidery, embossing, and screen printing. Before departing for Stitchworks, the students created a list of questions they wanted to ask the staff while visiting the business. They also revisited their Social Thinking skills, discussing what kinds of behaviors were [Read More]

In the remaining weeks of the school year, the students of the Lighthouse School of Ojai will be visiting various local businesses in areas of their interests. Today, they visited Café Emporium Bakery in downtown Ojai to learn more about bakeries and what it takes to be a pastry chef and baker. Before departing for [Read More]

This week the students of the Lighthouse School of Ojai revisited what they learned earlier in the year during their Hiking P.E. Unit and planned an afternoon hike through The Meadows Nature Preserve next to Nordhoff High School. The group discussed the expected and unexpected behaviors for hiking they learned through their Social Thinking curriculum, [Read More]

The students of the Lighthouse School of Ojai have had an exciting few weeks! Recently they have been learning about the art of Kung Fu from Sifu Tom Farrar of the Mountain Institute for Kung Fu and Tai Chi. The students have been learning not only the different moves and sets in Kung Fu, but [Read More]

This week the students of the Lighthouse School of Ojai reviewed the many different areas of social awareness and social thinking they have learned about through their interactions with their classmates, instructors, friends, and families this year. The students also took their Social Thinking skills to Westridge in Ojai. There, the students observed the behavior [Read More]