Thanks so much to everyone who helped make this a success: school staff- Sarah, Martha, Wesam, Kristin, Margaret, and all the gen ed teachers who worked with me to round up the peers and excuse them from class! We also had two parents helping out- thanks to Ian's dad, Ken, and Kaitlyn's mom, Annemarie!
Hello! Our week started off with a 3rd grade field trip to Green Acres as part of the Habitats science unit. Not surprisingly to all of us that know and adore Ian, he came back to school sopping wet. We are continuing to read Mo Willems' books this month! This week it was "Don't Let the Pigeon Ride the Bus!" Together, the three boys made a list of over 15 different vehicles and then each picked 3 to draw. My clever teacher mind thought this would force Ian to choose a vehicle other than a train to draw, but he outsmarted me by choosing a train, a tram, and a subway. Ian: 1. Mrs. Gray: 0. In 3rd grade they have started doing their health units. Here's Sasha taking part in a role play about bullying. On Friday we participated in the first ever A2 Unified Sports Day for elementary students. The elementary self-contained classes from all over the district gathered at Huron High School for a track and field event. We brought along 15 peers from our peer mentoring program so each student had a partner. The events were bowling, 25 yd dash, 50 yd dash, relay race, frisbee toss, and tennis ball throw. Thanks so much to everyone who helped make this a success: school staff- Sarah, Martha, Wesam, Kristin, Margaret, and all the gen ed teachers who worked with me to round up the peers and excuse them from class! We also had two parents helping out- thanks to Ian's dad, Ken, and Kaitlyn's mom, Annemarie! After we got back, Margaret led a group lesson to a bunch of exhausted kids! Have a great weekend!
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Are we halfway through May? Why does it feel like November outside? This week in the classroom we finished up our unit with Elephant and Piggie. In science we are learning about different ways that the earth changes (water, wind, volcano, earthquake, etc), and also read a story about how to make a rain garden. Sasha had to draw a picture of a talent he has in Ms. Yribar's class and he told me that this was him playing his uke! You may start to see work coming home that has what is called a sentence frame. This is a strategy from Project Read that is helping us remember to capitalize the beginning of our sentences and put a "stop sign" at the end. Here's an example- (where we were also learning about the apostrophe!) The highlight of everyone's week was the annual Fun Run! The weather was slightly chilly, but it was a beautiful day! We had several peers from Forsythe that walked and picnic-ed with us. Yufan and his peer buddy ran a good portion of the race and were our first finishers. Two of Mrs. H's kids did two laps (about 6 miles!!!) to earn a trophy. Here's some pictures of the crew. Thanks also to Ms. Kristen for coming along, Sarah and her family for organizing the picnic and arriving bright and early to secure a spot, and my husband, Drue, for transporting the heavy stuff and cooking the hot dogs! Until next week!
Hello! Last week was kind of low in the picture department, so I decided to wait a week and now I have more pictures than I could possibly share! Here goes! Last week we read "My Friend is Sad," our third Elephant and Piggie book. We also got to go to Mrs. H's class to read some of the books out loud. The boys had fun visiting their old classroom and I think Mrs. H had fun seeing them as well. We finished up talking about needs and wants. Ian and Sasha were able to share some pictures of our field trip to Friendship Circle with their third grade class. The third graders were really interested in what we did and asked the boys some questions. When our fourth grade peers came into the classroom, the kids worked on filling out a mad lib to write a silly story. This week we took our first trip to the Forsythe pool during our adapted PE time on Wednesday morning. Thanks to Mr. S, who supervises the adapted PE program, and Kelli Bert, our former adapted PE teacher, for agreeing to lifeguard for us. I'm not going to lie- the water was a little cold for this to qualify as a "therapeutic" experience, but the kids had so much fun. Kelli also rounded up some of her peer mentors, a few of them Wines alumni, to come and swim with us as well. I hope that we are able to set up some more regularly scheduled opportunities for swimming next year. As we were leaving Forsythe we were able to jump in the long line of Wines students participating in ACES Day (All Children Exercising Simultaneously). Every year, Ms. Wahl leads a mile walk around the Wines/Forsythe grounds. Fridays seem to be our busiest days, and today was no exception. Sasha and Ian prepared sandwiches with their third grade class and kindergarten buddies for Lunches with Love. They both did a great job making the soy butter and jelly sandwiches and packing the bags. This afternoon we had speech group with Margaret and that is always a time the kids enjoy. Carson did an especially great job responding to prompts from his classmates today. Here's Rohan reading his book for guided reading with two friends from Mr. Mosher's class. Just a reminder- we are headed to the annual Fun Run at Hudson Mills next Friday! We are still looking for some donations of food so we can picnic! I will send the link in my email!
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