Enoch's Breakthrough!

We are sooooooo proud of Enoch today!

Every morning we call role (attendance). You know, like we used to do when we were in school. I call everyone's name, one at a time, and they raise their hand and say "here". We were so proud at the beginning of the year when Enoch began signing "here" all by himself (after us showing him how). Later, we began to expect more of him. Instead of simply signing his name, we would point to our mouths indicating that he needed to open his mouth and attempt to verbalize "here". Well, after a while of doing that, he begin opening his mouth and making a noise, that we accepted as "here", all by himself. Today, he shocked us all. I went through the room, calling each student's name. They all said "here". When I got to Enoch I said "Enoch Edwards". Enoch, clear as day, said "HERE"!!! Mrs. Stowe and I both heard it and both had tears in our eyes! We were so proud!

Way to go Enoch! Keep up the good work! We knew you could do it!! :-)

Our Class Picture!

Today, I got our class picture in my mailbox! I love love love it and had to share it with all of you! We were missing one student (Joyria), but isn't it precious?

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This precious group is my life! I am so proud of all of them and so blessed to spend each day with each of them!

We've got Some Ball Players in our Class!

We've got a few ball players in our class. Lucy, Santoes, and La'Shawn are all playing on the Miracle League! Mrs. Stowe and Mrs. John (Mrs. Stowe's husband) made it to one of their games during Spring Break. Lucy and La'Shawn (on the Yankees) and Santoes (on the Marlins) played each other. Ms. Malcom was unable to attend. However, Mrs. Stowe kept Ms. Malcom posted with play-by-play pictures!

Below, Lucy and her daddy pose for a picture!

Mighty Lucy at bat!

Ms. Rene (Lucy's mom), Aunt Angie (Lucy's aunt), and Baby Troy (Lucy's new nephew) pose for a picture!

La'Shawn and his mom pose for a picture!

Run La'Shawn!!

Game's over! Santoes and La'Shawn shake hands and say "Good Game"!

La'Shawn, Lucy, and Mrs. Sterling (La'Shawn mom) pose for a picture!

Mr. John and Santoes pose for a picture!

Santoes and his mom pose for a picture!

We are so proud of our ball players! Keep up the good work!

We Made the Best of it!

Even though Special Olympics soccer was cancelled, we decided to make the best of it. We still wore our orange shirts all day, because we LOVE our orange shirts so much. We also kept our sack lunches and had a picnic in our room! Fun! Fun!

We love class picnics in our classroom!

Tony eating his lunch!

DeAsia eating her lunch!

Eliana sure does love her peanut butter sandwiches!

Then, it was time for some relaxation!

Others followed Tony's lead!

When I took DeAsia's picture her eyes looked so sweet! When I looked at the picture, after taking it, this is what I saw! LOL! That girl!

Such a cute picture of Santoes and Tony!

La'Shawn and Lucy pose for a picture!

We can have fun in any situation! :-)

Special Olympics Soccer was Rained Out!

Last Tuesday, we were supposed to have our first ever Special Olympics soccer skills. We were soooo excited! We came in, changed into our shirts, and got right to work so that we would be ready for the bus when it arrived.

Then it happened... Ms. Malcom got an e-mail stating that soccer had been cancelled due to Monday night's bad weather.

We were soooo upset. To let our sadness be known, we put on our saddest faces and took pictures. Then, we sent them to Mrs. Dew (the Special Olympics Coordinator). LOL!!

I must say, we have some great actors in our class! :-)

Our First "Class STARfish" after Spring Break!

Our first "Class STARfish", after Spring Break, was........................

Santoes Carter!!!!

At Calendar time, the "Class STARfish" is allowed to draw an addition to their picture. Mrs. Higdon assisted Santoes with drawing this COOL picture of himself! Ha! Ha! I can just see Santoes looking exactly like this picture in about 20 years!

Just a Cute Story!

I have so much to share on our blog. However, I haven't had a second to sit down and update it. I will hopefully get to that this weekend!

Even so, I wanted to share a very cute story from today. Jameer has been sick the past two days. Oh my goodness, his best friend Tony has missed him sooo much.

Well, today everyone went to the playground for recess. Jameer and Tony began running up the playground equipment and Tony fell. He hit is shin, which I know was painful. He said "Ouch" and walked towards Jameer holding his injured leg. He looked at Jameer and said in his most pitiful voice "Jameer. Kiss it". Jameer, the wonderful friend that he is, lifted up Tony's leg and kissed it. Then, they both went about their business, playing as if nothing happened.

It was the sweetest thing! What a great feeling to be young and to have such a wonderful friend!

Learning About Teeth!

The Thursday before Spring Break we began our new unit, Dental Health. To introduce our unit, we read a few pages in our health books and watched a short video about the importance of dental health. We also made our own "people", using marshmellows for their teeth. Our "people" turned out so cute and the students were so proud of them. They were required to cut their "eyes" and "noses" from a magazine. They were then allowed to choose their own hairstyles!

:-) Enjoy!