Orange and white and green...OH MY!

We read a fancy book this week

And made a special flag

The colors different lets take a peek

Not red white blue or plaid!

Orange and white and green abound

We used some glitter too

Mrs. S. loves sparkles (even on the ground)

Just look at all we do! 

Our ULS teaches us all about tools

This month it's what we learn

With plans to make crab cakes here in school

Let's hope it doesn't burn!

Milk and Ice cream are to be bought

As the blender will come in one day

To teach about measuring, cold and hot

Will it be good?? Who's to say!?

Lots of plans in the next two weeks

As school comes to an end

Spring break approaches, so swiftly it sneaks

Helpful rest will be our friend!!!

These kids work hard, so hard you see

To make us stop and see

Communication is a chore for them...

Not coming naturally.

David is ready to work, no time for pics Ms. Krystal give me my Ireland book! :)

Learning choice making on the iPad is very rewarding.

I made a new center near computers, Jon loves this!!

One of my favorite books has pull out masks...the kiddos adored it!

Rug time is new for us, but they are realllly enjoying it and learning a lot more in this ten minutes of reading time.

Art teacher brought shaving cream!

Matthew matching up his hands for his Claddagh.  The children traced ( or painted) their hands and colored them their own skin color and learned about the claddagh and its meaning to Ireland.

Speech lessons with Ms. Spivey.

Making our claddaghs!

David making the Irish flag!

Following directions and sorting, well done David!!!!!

Independent work area.

Sorting penguin clocks out and matching the time! Good Chris!

Using errorless choice, Chase is able to participate and he know where to put the answers too!  Good work little man!

Taking a sensory break...

Still hard at work!

Mr. Potato Head at the end of the day is always fun!

Love his smile!

Listening to the story of the Leprechaun letters!

Computer time.

Friday at about 2:20 pm....I FEEL YA BOYS!!!!!! I was spent this week too!

 Parent Question:  Not really a question, just a concern among several parents about communication needs and their children.

When you look at these blogs please...

Stop and think of all these kids do and how much they actually work.

Some are forced to find a way to speak/communicate daily without using words, without having that capability.  We are trying desperately to help some of these children communicate more efficiently.

While everyone communicates in some way, having a functional and

appropriate form of communication is still our main goal.  When Ms. Spivey the SLP leaves the room, these children still work all day long on speech/communication and conventional methods of language.  These children work 

for up to 6 hours a day, on nothing but trying to communicate, wants, needs, desires, likes, dislikes etc.  Tolerance, for both their teachers who are trying desperately to help them, and for the students themselves, who are struggling to understand why we are pushing them so hard, is greatly appreciated.  As a parent you know the frustration, you live with it 24 hours a day.   Don't forget you as the parent are their greatest advocate and it really shows in all the hard work you do with your children and the hard work they do at school.  Thanks to you parents we are able to further assist these children through your constant support and dedication to their education.  I have a great video about communication if you are interested in watching it or passing it on to others who try to understand how children with autism communicate.

Thanks for everything you do!

Youtube Video of the week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIaIR28iT-8&feature=player_embedded