Exceptional Children's Week General Ed. Class Visits!

During Exceptional Children's Week, General Ed. classes signed up to either visit our class or have our class visit their class. Several classes signed up to visit our class. Since our classroom trailer is so small, we decided to participate in activities (such as music and hop scotch) outside of our classroom. We also provided them with a short lesson celebrating the differences in ALL of us! This was an excellent program and one that I think everyone involved will always remember.

Ms. Finch's 2nd grade class was the first class to visit our classroom. Below, Ms. Stowe and Ms. Ford lead a short lesson on how they are different. For example, Ms. Stowe is tall, Ms. Ford is short. Ms. Stowe wears glasses, Ms. Ford doesn't wear glasses. The students in Ms. Finch's class were very eager to participate and learned a lot from the lesson!

Lucy, Kayla, and Lexi turn around to pose for a picture!! They loved having all of the 2nd grade students visit and play with them.

Together, our class and Ms. Finch's class participated in a song/ dance that Ms. Stowe wrote earlier in year titled "To the Left". The song/ dance was led by Izaiah and Tyrisha (in the middle of the circle).

Ms. Frix's 3rd grade class signed up for our class to visit their classroom. In Ms. Frix's class both classes joined together to participate in a game of Friendship BINGO. The squares on the BINGO cards were labeled with the names of students in both classes. Chips were placed on the boxes when the names of the students were called. Kayla quickly made a friend in Ms. Frix's class! This sweet young lady assisted Kayla with finding the names and placing her chips as the names were called.

Lexi also made a couple of friends in Ms. Frix's class! These students also assisted Lexi with Friendship BINGO!!

In addition, we visited many more classes, including 4th grade classes, 5th grade classes, and Kindergarten classes. Our friends in Ms. Kennedy's 4th grade class and Ms. Walden's 5th grade class were so thoughtful and even made us cards thanking us visiting them and picking up their lunch counts each morning.

This program was very fun and enlightening for all involved. It was a big hit and we have had requests to visit classes on a regular basis throughout the remainder of the school year! Several students have also came to our room asking to assist our students with reading, classwork, etc.

Thanks to all who worked so hard to make this program a success!