Special Olympics Skating!

For the past two weeks we have been going to Romp-n-Roll for Special Olympics Skating. The pictures below are from our trip last week!

The kids get very excited about our trips away from school, as you can see!

This is a great picture of Mrs. Stowe and DeAsia!

Jonathan and La'Shawn pose for a picture!

Uh-Oh! Santoes fell down! He is the funniest skater! He takes off really fast, sometimes loosing his skates in the process, and wipes out! :-)

Ms. Malcom helping Eliana and Enoch skate! They did a great job!

DeAsia is a great skater! She skates very fast!

Ms. Malcom helps Tanayry!

The South Salem group trying our best to do the Hokey Pokey! That was interesting!

La'Shawn got to work with Mrs. Reagan! He worked very hard!

This is how Ms. Malcom looked after skating! Ha! Ha!

Lucy and Ms. Malcom sharing a hug while waiting for the bus!

Santoes taking a bow!

Getting off of the bus once we arrived back at school!

We've been working very hard on learning to walk in a line! It looks like we've accomplished it!

We had a blast at Special Olympics Skating! It is so great to watch all of our students improve each week! We look forward to next week!

Fun in Occupational Therapy!

We had a great time in Occupational Therapy today thanks to Mrs. LaVerne! We learned about body parts and their position in space. We had the task of working together to create Mat Man! Below are some pictures of us working on our task! We sang the "Mat Man" song as we put him together!

And...the finished product!! Way to go! Who knew learning could be so much fun!?

Top Toucan for the Week of August 31st-September 4th!

The Top Toucan is a student that has demonstrated excellent behavior and hard work in class! This student is chosen by his/her teachers and serves as the Teacher's Helper for the week.

The Top Toucan for the week of August 31st-September 4th is.....

La'Shawn Sterling!!!

Way to Go La'Shawn!! We are so proud of you!

I feel so bad because I forgot to take a picture and post about our first two Top Toucans!

Enoch Edwards was our first Top Toucan! Lucy McDonald was our second Top Toucan! We are very proud of you as well!! Way to Go!

We're Still Growing!

It's hard to believe, but we have grown, EVEN MORE, this week! We have a new student, Jonathan, and a new paraprofessional, Mrs. Holland! Jonathan is in Kindergarten! He is a very sweet boy and loves playing on the playground. Mrs. Holland came to us from Ficquett Elementary where she has worked for two years! We welcome both of them to our class!

Below is our new class picture! Everyone was present today, so we took advantage of the opportunity!

That's one busy classroom! :-)

Fun in Adaptive PE!

Every Tuesday and Wednesday we have Adaptive PE with Coach Wildman and Mrs. Bell! Not only do we work on improving our gross motor skills, but we also have a GREAT time!

On Wednesdays we are very lucky to have two very special helpers join us in Adaptive PE. Laney and Hunter are in Mrs. Frix's 3rd grade class! We enjoy spending time with them and appreciate all of their help!

DeAsia LOVES Adaptive PE! You can just see the excitement on her face!

In Adaptive PE we run!

We turn the jump rope!

We go under the jump rope!

We jump over the jump rope!

Thanks Coach Wildman and Mrs. Bell for making Adaptive PE so fun! We love you both!

Happy Birthday La'Shawn!

Today was La'Shawn's birthday! Usually we are the ones that serenade the birthday boy! However, today he used the guitar to serenade us! We hope you had a wonderful birthday La'Shawn! We enjoyed celebrating it with you!

Pictures from Picture Day!

Friday, August 14th was Picture Day at South Salem Elementary! Below, Ms. Malcom practices her smile!

Alex also practices his Picture Day smile!

Everyone in line and ready to go to get their pictures made!

Everyone waiting patiently to get their pictures made!

Joyria discussing her picture pose with the photographer!

Beautiful Joyria!

Santoes posing for his picture!

Eliana getting her picture made!

La'Shawn sat in the rocking chair for his picture! He took a great picture!

Everyone was beautiful and the pictures looked very good! Can't wait to see them when they come back!

Two Peas in a Pod!

Santoes and Tyler have become GREAT friends. They sit at the same table, laugh together, and play together! I love this picture and had to share it with you! There's nothing better than finding a great friend to share your day with!

Back by Popular Demand!

So... our last "Music Video" was VERY popular with our students! Therefore, we decided to write another song and record another video (after the students left for the day)! As you can see below, we had to call "Cut" several times before the video was finally recorded! Pause the playlist on the right! Enjoy!

Take 1

Take 2

Take 3

Finally... the Video!

Pictures from the Second Week of School!

Below are a few pictures from our second week of school!

Tyler and Enoch LOVE the rice table!

Alex playing with cars!

I told Santoes to say "Cheese" and this is what I got! :-)

Such a cute picture of such as cute girl! Eliana smiles for the camera!

Meet Tyler! Tyler is our new student. He started on Monday! Welcome to our class Tyler! We look forward to getting to know you!

A big smile from Tanayry!

All of this work can really make you tired! Aaron sleeps like an angel at rest time!

Enoch and Eliana share a brother/sister picture! Too cute!

The second week of school has been a great one!