Fashion brings kids out of their shells

  BRIGHTON TWP. - A fashion show in New Horizon not only gave students the chance to be stars, but some of them a chance to get out of their shell in a way they never had before.

The parade Friday was part of a month of activities on Earth Day for students. The theme of the show was, "Green is the new black."

New Horizon is a public school for students 5-21 with special needs and disabilities ages.

In the fifth and final session on Thursday afternoon, students - with some confidence and some are still a little shy - walking on the road. The practice has an unexpected surprise for teachers when a student, who has never spoken, the track left by his walk and said since "Good job."

Teachers who have heard little, say, breathless, and backstage gossip temporarily disabled that show up when unexpected time.

Professor René professional Fencil said that the students in the show that are 6 to 20 years old, has come a long way from where they started to come earlier in the week.

"The children are afraid of the death at first," said the first Fencil training. She said that when she told one of the boys that it was my turn to go to the start and runway, pretending to be an airplane and stretched his arms out to his way of fashion.

In the final practice Thursday students had made. "They are really confident now. He will be great," Fencil said.

Preparations for the show began in January, after the parents and the teachers' organization Fencil approached with the idea of ??a fashion show. Fencil said she hoped it would help get enough to remove it.

"I prayed to God that I get 10 people to the front, had to help," she said. "Forty people came to help the construction. It was the most amazing thing."

Each student had the chance to put a price to go on business or goodwill where they got to choose their own outfits for the fashion show.

Fencil says she has a group of students who participate in career exploration that practical goodwill to do tasks such as hanging clothes by color coding and all elements with the needs of the stores.

Students surprised their parents Friday with a live broadcast of a "green carpet" Earth Day with cameras transmitting the scenes preparations for the fashion show, including the make-up room and a hairdressing salon.

Fencil said that other activities of Earth Day this month planting sunflowers create works of art and a cleaning day in the parks in the region include.