Cute Pictures from Last Week!

This blog post is sort of random. It is of cute pictures from last week that I came across! Enjoy!

Lucy and La'Shawn are the best of friends! If you ask Lucy who her best friend in the class is, she will say "La'Shawn" without a doubt!

Santoes loves playing with the stuffed animals during indoor recess!

DeAsia and her Elmo! That's all I can say! :-) The funny thing is, the headphones were not even plugged in!

What an interesting face Enoch has in this picture!

Out of all of the things in our classroom that these two could choose to play with during indoor recess, Lucy and La'Shawn chose to play with the Alphabet Center! These two are so studious!

Aaron LOVES the Sit & Spin!! He could spin for days!

Miss Piggy has been paying very close attention in Occupational Therapy when we work on cutting skills! She uses her teeth to cut a perfect line down the paper! Ha! Ha!

Kite Day and More Playground Fun!

Last week it was finally windy enough to go outside and fly kites! We had so much fun!

Lucy LOVES the slide! She loves to play with her friend La'Shawn on the slide!

Santoes has such a great time on the playground!

Flying kites was so much fun!

Everyone loves the jungle gym!

This is such a cute picture of Aaron! He is our little climber!

This is also a cute picture of DeAsia and Ms. Higdon! DeAsia looks like a little teacher!

We love our Friends!

We had a fabulous time in Occupational Therapy on Tuesday! Not only did we get to work on our scissor cutting and fine motor skills, we also got to make friendship bracelets in the process!

Below, Ms. LaVerne explains to us what we will be doing!

Ms. Stowe helps DeAsia cut the straws that we will use to make our bracelets!

Santoes works hard with assistance from Ms. LaVerne!

Ms. Malcom works with Aaron on threading the straws on his pipe cleaner (bracelet)! Santoes does an excellent job cutting his straw independently!

Ms. Higdon puts Joyria's finished product (her friendship bracelet) on her arm!

I love this picture of all of our friendship bracelets! We truly love all of the friends in our class and enjoy the time that we get to spend together!

Thank you so much Ms. LaVerne for such a wonderful activity! We loved it!

Exceptional Children's Week Party!!!

On Friday we had our Exceptional Children's Week Party and at South Salem Elementary we KNOW how to Party!!

We had popsicles, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, the playground, a kickball game, and friends. What more did we need?

Even Mrs. Dubois (our principal) came out to Party with us! Below, Mrs. Dubois, Lucy, and La'Shawn play with the bubbles!

Wow Mrs. Dubois! That's one big bubble!

Aaron loved the bubbles! He sat there for a while trying to blow one!

The popsicles were a huge hit! Many students came back for seconds!

What a big smile Jordan has!

DeAsia loved her popsicle!

Sarah Grace smiles and waves for the camera before going to play with her good friend Lucy!

Even Coach Sloop was able to join our party!

DeAsia loves her Auntie (AKA- Mrs. Watson)!

Mrs. Foster takes time to chat with Aaron and Aiden!

Mrs. Higdon gives Coach Sloop his popsicle! I wonder what's so funny!

Ms. Malcom made sure that everyone got a popsicle! For a second there, she was a very popular lady! Ha! Ha!

Seth has a beautiful smile!

The sidewalk chalk was also a big hit! There were some very beautiful pictures drawn on the sidewalk!

Mr. Michael, with the help of a few others, helped lead the kickball game! Thanks!

Lucy playing kickball!

La'Shawn kicking the ball!

These big boys were so sweet! Whenever La'Shawn got to a base, they would raise their hands and yell "Safe"! How sweet!

They did it for the little kids too! Noah was "safe"!

Some of the students opted to play on the playground. Ms. Merry, one of DeAsia's dear friends, was nice enough to push DeAsia on the swing!

Ms. Culpepper pushed Brianna on the swing!

These boys (and girl) had a blast on the jungle gym!

Santoes had so much fun on the playground. He didn't want to get on the bus to go home!

As you can see, there was a lot of fun had by ALL!!! I want to Thank EVERYONE that helped make Exceptional Children's Week a success! I truly appreciate each one of you! Our students had a fabulous week, one that they truly deserved!

Love, Ms. Malcom

Exceptional Children's Week!

This week is Exceptional Children's Week and it has been a GREAT week! Ms. Higdon was asked to create a bulletin board for the hallway upstairs. She did an excellent job on this larger replication of the pins that we made for the staff members at our school! Wonderful Job Ms. Higdon!

A class picture in front of Ms. Higdon's bulletin board!

Our friends from Ms. McCartney's 5th grade class made BEAUTIFUL posters for us! How sweet! Our good friends Morgan and Schylar (from the morning announcements) brought them to us! They even brought a new friend with them! We were so happy to see them! Thanks so much Ms. McCartney's class!


Our artist, Ms. Higdon, also made a precious bulletin board outside of our door. The theme for Exceptional Children's Week this year was "Raising the Bar". When we were thinking about how to decorate for this theme, someone mentioned a luau theme. It just stuck and this is what Ms. Higdon came up with! Too cute!

Here is a closer look of half of the bulletin board!

And a close up of the other half! Ha! Ha!

Lastly, we put up a sign up sheet outside of our classroom inviting other classes to come in and enjoy music time with us! We had a blast with Ms. Guinn's class and Ms. Stegall's class today!

I had to share this picture of Aaron! Too cute!

While Ms. Stowe played the guitar, Ms. Guinn taught the students how to incorporate sign language in the songs! They loved it and learned a lot!

Thanks Ms. Stegall's class and Ms. Guinn's class for joining us for music!

HAPPY EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S WEEK everyone and remember to CELEBRATE your differences!!!

It SNOWED at South Salem Elementary!

This week was quite interesting! On MARCH 1st, it snowed. It snowed a lot! On Monday, we were out of school for a snow day! That was fun! Today, on Thursday, it was approximately 60 degrees outside. However, snow was still around in the shady spots. So, we all went outside to take a class picture in front of the snow. It was quite weird playing in snow when it was so warm outside but we were okay with it! We even had a snowball fight on the playground! :-)

Such a cute class!

This was in between pictures! I love this picture because it shows just how interested they were in playing in the snow!

Picture Number Two! This is funny because all of the boys are more interested in the snow than in the camera! I can't blame them! I love the snow!